Chapter 11
Elizabeth’s crying stopped abruptly. Looking at her daughter’s twisted leg, her eyes were full of conflict and fear.
Whether as a mistress before or as Mrs. Smith later, she had always been pampered by Robert all these years. How could
she endure such suffering and torture?
But hearing this, Isabella suddenly raised her head.
As if grasping a lifeline, she dragged her broken leg and crawled to Elizabeth’s side. “Mom, I’m still so young. I don’t want to die. Please take the punishment for me. You love me so much, you’d be willing to, right?”
Her blood-red eyes were like a demon crawling out of hell.
Elizabeth’s face was pale, unable to speak for a long time. Isabella couldn’t wait any longer and turned around urgently.
“My mom is willing to take my place, Ethan. Take my mom away, just, just leave her alive!”
Elizabeth stared in disbelief.
She never imagined that the daughter she had spoiled like a princess would push her out without hesitation to save
herself! “Isabella! I’m your mother! How can you treat me like this! You caused this mess-you should face the
consequences!”
But Isabella, now controlled by fear, had lost all reason.
She glared with resentment. “Since you gave birth to me, you should be responsible for me! If you hadn’t made me
compete with Sophia since childhood, I wouldn’t have bullied her and ended up like this! It’s all your fault!”
Elizabeth hit Isabella across the face.
Her voice trembled. “You ungrateful bitch! I raised you for nothing!”
Watching the mother and daughter turn against each other, Ethan found it utterly ridiculous.
Even if Elizabeth really agreed to take ten times the punishment for Isabella, he wouldn’t let Isabella go.
He wouldn’t spare anyone who had hurt Sophia, so he had the bodyguards drag both women away.
Elizabeth panicked. “Don’t touch me! Ethan, I’m Mrs. Smith! If something happens to me, the Smith family won’t let you go!”
Ethan suddenly laughed. “Robert deceived me so badly-do you think I’ll spare the Smith family?”
Meeting the man’s crazed eyes, Elizabeth finally realized they had provoked a madman!
Isabella screamed hysterically, “Ethan, you’re the stupid one for believing everything I said! You personally decided those punishments. You personally drove Sophia away-how dare you blame me! Someone like you deserves to be abandoned. Sophia is gone and will never come back…”
The mother and daughter were forcibly dragged away by bodyguards, and the room suddenly fell silent.
Ethan collapsed to the floor as if his spine had been removed.
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After he was kidnapped as a child, he had fallen seriously ill.
When he woke up, he had forgotten many details about the kidnapping.
His parents, worried about traumatizing him, paid Robert Smith a large sum to keep the incident secret.
But in his dreams, there was always a little girl in a pink dress who softly called him “Eth”…
Fifteen years had passed in a flash. When he first saw Sophia, he fell deeply in love and vowed to marry only her, but no matter how he pursued her, she remained unmoved.
People in their circle said Sophia was playing hard to get, and if he ignored her for a few days, she’d come running to him.
That same day, Ethan smashed wine bottles over those rich kids’ heads.
Later, when he learned about Sophia’s background and experiences, his heart filled with both sympathy and rage.
So after helping Sophia reclaim her rightful shares, he prepared to punish Isabella and her mother who had bullied her.
But Robert suddenly jumped out, saying he couldn’t hurt them.
He looked very nervous but insisted it was Isabella who saved him, even describing what she wore that day.
Ethan thought he was nervous because he was afraid of retaliation from the Miller family for breaking the agreement.
But he never expected Robert was nervous because he was afraid of being caught in a lie.
If he had been more careful then, asked a few more questions, perhaps he wouldn’t have been deceived…
But there are no “ifs” in this world.
The fact was, he not only believed Robert but also hurt Sophia again and again to “protect” Isabella.
Thinking of the increasingly excessive punishments he had inflicted on her, he wanted to kill himself!
Just as Ethan picked up a fruit knife, his phone suddenly rang.
He answered frantically, “Did you find news about Sophia? Where is she now?!”
But the assistant’s voice was hesitant. “Mrs. Miller’s identity records have been cancelled. We can’t trace her
whereabouts…”
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