Chapter 215
Arabe bit her lip in frustration, refusing to respond. She wanted to blurt out how much she hated
Vivienne, despised her, and was jealous of her.
Vivienne had taken everything from her, including the man who should have been hers, leaving
Arabe in this dismal state.
Vivienne was the reason she was in this miserable condition, so she deserved to take the me.
She scrolled through her phone, watching the video of her removing Beatrice''s oxygen tube in the
hospital room in horror now that it had leaked online. Everything she said in the hospital room was also
exposed.
This shocking turn of events stunned the onlookers who were questioning Beatrice''s sanity. After
ignoring her excellent granddaughter Vivienne, she chose to love an adopted pariah, leading her to
almost get killed by the same pariah.
Many people tagged Paul''s Twitter, asking him if he still nned to marry this would-be murderer.
Paul didn''t respond, but theizens were divided. They couldn''t stop arguing.
One side argued that since Paul had gotten Arabe pregnant, he should take responsibility, regardless
of whether Arabe was a heinous murderer.
The other side argued that a wife should be virtuous. If they brought a woman like Arabe into their
family, wouldn''t that bring disaster? For the sake of family honor and their future, it would be better to
take some me now than to let such a woman in and leave her child behind.
People say, ''Like father, like son.''
But with a woman like Arabe, who knew what kind of person her child would grow up to be and what
harm it might bring to society?
Arabe gritted her teeth as she sent several messages to Paul, but he didn''t respond.
"Ronald, do you think Paul will leave me because of this?" Arabe bit her lip, covering her face to hide
her gaze while pretending to be in great pain.
Unfortunately, her tears, which she thought were very moving, didn''t touch Ronald at all. He drove with
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a disappointed expression. "Arabe, don''t you feel any shame or regret?"
Arabe was taken aback, but Ronald ignored her, and the two drove in silence back to Hawthorn
Mansion.
As they neared Hawthorn Mansion, Arabe saw Michael Hawthorn and Joseph Hawthorn, with
satisfied expressions on their faces, leaving the mansion.
They must have taken advantage of this situation to get a hefty sum from Scott.
Arabe shrank back and hid behind the driver''s seat. She was afraid of being seen by the two and
getting entangled with them again.
Ronald nced at her movement. His lips tightened, and his expression became even more serious.
When they entered the mansion and saw the Brooks family waiting for her in the living room, Arabe
couldn''t help but shrink back.
Melissa and Timothy lookedplicated, while Judith and Scott''s faces were stern. Only Ashley''s eyes
were filled with unmistakable schadenfreude.
"Grandma, Dad." Arabe approached with a pale face. She was acting pitifully, trying anything to
soften Judith and Scott''s hearts.
"We''ve heard what happened from the police." Scott paused before asking, "Arabe, why did you try
to kill your former grandmother, Beatrice?"
"She threatened me." Arabe defended herself with teary eyes. "She wanted to force me to take two
billion from you for her. How could she let me do that to you? I was so angry that I lost control.”
That was also what Arabe told the police.
Ashley’s eyes shed with ridicule.
Arabe’s mind worked fast. This excuse turned her from an attempted murderer into someone who
was willing to argue with her grandmother, who raised her, in order to protect her biological
grandparents.
Ashley looked at Judith and Scott’s faces.
Would her grandparents really be fooled by Arabe?
Judith and Scott’s faces remained stern.
Scott looked at Arabe with piercing eyes.
This girl didn’t have any resemnce to Karen, except for those eyes. And now, those eyes, simr to
Karen’s, were flickering with uncertainty and dishonesty. They were far from the purity that Karen had.
“Since it was an ident, why did you frame your adopted sister?” Scott asked the same question as
Ronald.
If what Arabe said was true, that Beatrice threatened her, so she identally hurt Beatrice in her
panic, he could understand.
Yet Arabe wrote “Vivienne” at the crime scene with Beatrice’s finger and blood. It was clear what she
intended.
His daughter could be ipetent and foolish, but she couldn’t be malicious and full of tricks and
schemes. That was too much for him to bear.
“Arabe, you told the police that you didn’t know how the name ‘Vivienne’ came up at the crime
scene.” Scott said coldly, “The police didn’t believe it, and I don’t either. If it was someone else’s prank,
why would they write your adopted sister’s name?”
He remembered the call he received from Vivienne earlier. She said she was looking forward to his
performance.
For some reason, he didn’t want to leave a bad impression on Vivienne.
So, even if he found out that the three paternity tests were correct, he wouldn’t interfere in Arabe’s
case, other than following the normal procedure for bail and paying for Beatrice’s medical expenses.
He didn’t want to disappoint that cold-eyed girl.
Arabe felt the oppressive gaze from Scott and Judith and bit her lip. She didn’t know how to defend
herself.
In the end, Judith looked away and stopped looking at Arabe. She stood up, feeling exhausted, and
went upstairs. “That’s it. Take care of yourself; I’m done.”
Scott rose to his feet, ready to apany Judith upstairs, but Arabe hastily called out to him. “Dad,
what about my marriage to Paul?!”
Her reputation was already in ruins. If she missed out on Paul, even with the support of the Brooks
family, her only future was to marry down. She was determined to marry into the Ellington family.
Scott halted in his tracks, turning back to look at Arabe with the same disappointed gaze Ronald had
given earlier. He saw clearly that there was not a hint of remorse in Arabe’s eyes, only selfish
concern for her own future.
Since she came back, Arabe didn’t even bother to ask once about the impact of her actions on the
Brooks family.
After the news broke today, the stock price of the Brooks Group kept falling, evaporating a third of its
market value in just a few hours.
But Arabe only cared about herself from start to finish.
“Richard visited your grandfather’s nursing home and brought up the subject of breaking off the
engagement.” Scott said coldly while looking at Arabe. “Given the mess you’ve made, if the Ellington
family wants to break off the engagement, we have no grounds to stop them.”
Needless to say, after Richard made a scene at the nursing home, Baron was furious and, of course,
called Scott to give him a piece of his mind.
Truth be told, acknowledging a daughter like her had brought his father nothing but constant anger-
induced hypertension. Scott was filled with guilt.
With that, he didn’t want to look at Arabe’s unwilling face anymore. He simply helped Judith upstairs
to rest.
A hint of resentment appeared in Arabe’s eyes. No wonder they conducted two additional paternity
tests behind her back. They imed they would make up for her past suffering, but in reality, they didn’t
consider her part of the family at all.