“You’re ridiculous! Detestable!” Sean was furious.
Diana looked at Sean and Eloise disapprovingly. “Mister, Madam, although it was a bit wrong of me to do this, my sister is very nice. She surely has not treated her badly. The young lady has definitely been dressed warmly and fed well, rest assured!”
Smack! Eloise could not help but slap Diana in the face. She endured her grief and said through gritted teeth and with angry eyes, “Diana, you’re not a human! You swapped my daughter and threw her to your sister just to let your daughter live a good life. Yet, you’re still arrogantly telling me to be rest assured?”
Eloise pursed her lips in utter grief.
“My daughter was originally a young lady. She wouldn’t have needed to worry about food and clothes. She could have gone to the best school and get the best education. She would have been a socialite in the upper-class society! But because of your selfishness and greed, my daughter has never lived a good day!”
Hearing this, Diana took a look at Eloise, who was emotional, in disbelief. “Madam, what you said is a little too exaggerated. My sister is a good person. She has definitely taken good care of the young lady. Worst comes to worst, I’ll ask my sister to send her back right now. She can still be the young lady. But my Brittany… My Brittany is really pitiful…”
“Bring her back? How lightly you speak of it! How are you going to bring my daughter back? She’s already dead! She’s dead, and you’re also one of the murderers who killed her!”
Diana stared blankly with wide eyes. “Wha-What? The young lady is dead?”
“Yes, she’s dead. She’s Niamh, the person you keep saying you want to kill! Niamh Delgado is my biological daughter!”
Diana was instantly dumbfounded after hearing such an answer. She shook her head with an expression of disbelief. She could not accept it.
“How can that be? Impossible! How could that btch be Madam’s daughter? She’s not worthy. She’s not worthy of the title of the Montgomeries’ young lady at all. She’s just a btch—”
‘You shut up!” Eloise was outraged. “Who are you to curse my daughter like that? If my daughter isn’t worthy, then are you worthy? You did these despicable and shameless things that are lower than the low, and yet you still have the gall to criticize my daughter? Diana, you don’t have humanity or conscience. You’re simply not worthy of being human!”
Eloise reprimanded her furiously. Thinking of the hardships that Niamh might have experienced during the years after she was swapped, Eloise’s heart hurt beyond words.
“Eloise, what’s the matter?” Seeing Eloise teetering as if she was about to faint, Sean held her nervously.
Eloise burst into tears and raised her hand to hold her chest. “Oh Sean, my heart hurts. It really hurts. Our daughter could have grown up living a peaceful and prosperous life, but who would have thought that she would actually be killed like that…”
As she spoke, her red, tearful eyes glared angrily at Diana.
“From the moment you came to the Montgomeries until now, when have I ever treated you badly? I’ve only ever treated you kindly and even helped you to get married, but the result? I didn’t expect you to think so little of how well we treated you that you actually paid back our kindness with ingratitude!
“Brittany was a good girl. Even when Sean and I discovered that she wasn’t ours back then, we never treated her badly, but what about you? How did you treat my daughter? If it weren’t for your skulduggery back then, my Eveline wouldn’t have ended up dead!”
“Madam, I didn’t expect things to become like this. I indeed handed Niamh to my sister back then and had her take good care of Niamh.” Diana was pushing the blame. She then said with dissatisfaction, “But, Madam, your daughter murdered my daughter. Even if she has died, her death still left a margin of inexorable guilt. It was what she deserved. My Brittany is the most innocent and most pitiful one!”
“You…”
Hearing Diana making such righteous remarks, Eloise and Sean were outraged.
This was simply absurd and ridiculous!
She had obviously done such an unforgivable and despicable thing yet she still blamed the victim.
“Diana, you listen to me! My daughter has never harmed anyone. She was innocent! Brittany was killed by someone else! On the contrary, you killed my daughter! She was killed by an idiotic, evil, and unreasonable fool like you!”
Eloise had exploded entirely, venting all the emotions in her heart.
“You keep saying that you want to avenge your daughter. You listen to me now. I want to get justice for my daughter! I will have you take responsibility for all the absurd things you’ve done!”
After Eloise warned Diana while pointing at her, she turned and walked away quickly.
Sean did not hesitate to call the police immediately.
Not long after, the police arrived. Sean told them the whole story and Diana was taken away.
As she was being taken away, she still insisted that she did nothing wrong and thought that her daughter, Brittany, was the most pitiful. She did not even realize that her selfishness and greed had destroyed a family of three that was initially warm and complete.
Although the atmosphere quieted down after Diana was taken away, there was a trace of melancholy and gloominess in the air.
Niamh exchanged a few words with Kendrick before going upstairs to Eloise’s room.
When she reached the door, she heard Eloise’s whimpers and sobs.
A faint ache emerged again from the thorn in her heart.
After settling her emotions, Niamh raised her hand and knocked on the door. “Mrs. Montgomery, are you alright?”
Hearing this, Eloise immediately took a tissue to wipe her tears. She tried to put on a smile before saying, “Miss Vera, please come in.”
Niamh walked in calmly only to see Eloise’s red, crying eyes. She recalled what Eloise had said to Diana just now. A hint of distress involuntarily appeared in her eyes.
“Mrs. Montgomery, don’t be so upset. If your daughter is here to see this, she’ll definitely not want Mr. Montgomery and you to feel sad for her.”
Hearing Niamh’s comforting words, Eloise’s tears flooded even more.
She looked at Niamh’s face with tears sparkling in her eyes. Slowly lifting her trembling hand, she stroked the delicate and soft face in front of her gently.
“Eveline…”
Eloise moved her lips and whispered the name.
Niamh was a little stunned, knowing that it was her real name.
“Mom and Dad are sorry. We’re really sorry. You had obviously shown up in front of us long ago, but we were blind. We hurt and mistreated you time and time again for that vicious woman Nevaeh…
“I know that there’s no way to compensate you in this lifetime. If there’s a next life, I’ll definitely make up for the harm done to you…”
Eloise reached out her hand with tears all over her face and she suddenly hugged Niamh.
“Eveline, my Eveline…” she called out lightly in a trembling voice.
Perhaps she was in a trance, but looking at Niamh’s face, it was really hard not to be in a trance— especially in the state of grief and indignation she was in at this moment.
Niamh silently let Eloise hug her tightly, a touch of wetness appearing in her calm eyes…
This was probably the first time she was experiencing a mother’s love. It turned out to be so warm. She cherished it.
Eloise let go after a long time.
“I’m sorry, Miss Vera, I lost my cool.” Eloise apologized sincerely. “Thanks for your help tonight, Miss Vera. If it weren’t for you, Diana wouldn’t have admitted so easily.”
Niamh smiled faintly. “It’s just a small matter, so don’t worry about it.”
She got up slowly, her face as undisturbed as ever. “Rest early, Mrs. Montgomery. Kendrick and I are going back now.”
“I’ll see you two off.”
Eloise looked at Niamh warmly and very politely sent her two guests to the main gate.
The car quickly drove far away, but Eloise and Sean’s gaze stayed.
They regretted everything they had done to Niamh, and now, only looking at this similar-looking face could they seek a bit of healing and comfort.
Unfortunately, this remorse could never be compensated.
The villa.
Niamh’s thoughts had not settled down completely even after she took a bath.
When she was young, she envied other children who had their parents’ accompaniment. She also blamed the gods and accused others as well as blamed her parents for not wanting her, but in fact, her parents loved her and thought about her.
Thinking of this, a warm current came from Niamh’s incomplete, injured heart.
Then, she thought about what had happened tonight again.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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