Avery scread in pain, crying even more intensely. Mrs. Allen’s heart twisted with pain; despite everything, they were still her daughters, her own flesh and blood.
"How dare you be so wanton, so indulgent! How dare you be so ignorant! Tonight, I’ll beat so sense into you two fools!" Grandpa Allen shouted, striking Avery again with his cane.
Mrs. Allen could no longer stand by. She threw herself over her daughter to protect her. "Stop it! Hitting her won’t bring back our reputation! It won’t restore our image!"
Mr. Allen jumped up, pointing at Mrs. Allen and yelling, "This is all your fault for spoiling them! Do you realize the ss you’ve caused? I don’t want to see them anymore. Send them abroad imdiately!"
Sending them abroad was the best solution.
It would give the daughters a chance to mature and allow the scandal to die down.
By the ti they returned, most people would have forgotten the incident.
Mrs. Allen agreed, but Avery and Emma didn’t want to go. However, under the authority of the Allen family patriarch, they had no choice but to comply.
That night, Avery and Emma analyzed who might have leaked the footage, considering various possibilities. They suddenly thought of William from the Dream Voyage, who had been left paralyzed from the waist down.
Thinking of this and combining it with Mr. Taylor’s fate, both sisters were terrified.
"Could it be... Mr. Nelson behind all this? William ended up that way, and while Eric didn’t do it himself, could he have orchestrated everything?" Emma was more sober, but Avery disagreed.
"Impossible! Even if Eric doesn’t like , he wouldn’t do sothing so underhanded! William was attacked by Ryan’s n; what does that have to do with Eric?"
Avery defended Eric, and Emma thought about it. It did seem unlikely, but they couldn’t identify the whistleblower.
"Don’t worry about that now. Just go abroad to lay low for a while. Your father and grandfather will get to the bottom of this!" Mrs. Allen said sternly, her eyes filled with disappointnt. "Avery, Emma, if you don’t straighten out, no decent man will ever want to marry you!"
Successful n wouldn’t want a woman with a tarnished reputation.
Unless the man himself had low morals and didn’t care about the woman’s past!
Avery and Emma exchanged glances. At this point, they had no other choice.
"Fine! We’ll go abroad for now, but... considering Hannah was also exposed, I still suspect..." Emma still doubted Eric’s involvent.
On the Dream Cruises, Eric had been distant, and Ella hadn’t pursued anything against them.
Though they had been discreet, the person who drugged Ella had disappeared, which must have been noticed by Eric.
"Hmph, when I co back, Eric will be tired of that bitch. I’ll have my chance then!" Avery suddenly felt hopeful, clinging to this belief. Mrs. Allen thought her daughter’s hope was naive but didn’t shatter it.
People live on hope; there was no need to destroy it.
Since the scandal at the club, Hannah and Brianna had been keeping a low profile. Although Hannah’s eyes still held resentnt at tis, she didn’t dare to make any more moves.
Hannah had taken a year’s leave of absence and, with Brianna’s support, often volunteered at orphanages and elderly hos.
Hannah learning to keep a low profile showed that the enemy knew how to bide their ti. Waiting would only make them stronger!
Ella understood this deeply. That evening, while dining with Eric in their new ho, she brought up this concern with him.
"Brianna is a clever woman. She’s suffered enough to be wary of you and is likely biding her ti, like a tiger waiting for the perfect mont to strike. When the ti cos, she’ll aim to take you down in one fell swoop," Eric said calmly. Despite her shortcomings, Brianna was far from foolish.
Ella nodded, the sunset casting a beautiful glow on her delicate face.
"You’re right. I don’t want to give them a chance to retaliate, so I plan to make my move now and set the stage."
She had plenty of incriminating evidence against Brianna and Hannah, ensuring she could topple them when the ti was right.
The tragedies of her past life haunted her, and she knew that if Brianna and Hannah retained any power, they could strike back at her.
"Why don’t you move in here with ?" Eric suggested.
"No... I want to complete my task first, then I’ll move in. With you supporting , Brianna and Hannah won’t dare make a move," Ella shook her head, declining Eric’s offer.
Eric felt a twinge of frustration. Hannah and Brianna were indeed obstacles. If not for them, Ella would have moved in with him already.
This estate was highly secure, and no unauthorized person could enter without the owner’s permission. So, even if Ella lived with Eric here, there would be no risk of prying eyes or caras.
"Then I could have Emily exacerbate their conflicts," Eric said with a sly smile.
Robert thought he had found his true love, but Emily was only interested in his money. Without his wealth, no woman would stay with a married man with children, no matter how handso he was compared to younger n in their pri.
"Emily is a pawn, but I have another plan," Ella said with a smile. "Rember I had soone investigate the missing maid from when my mom was alive?"
Eric was slightly surprised. He hadn’t been involved in that since he and Ella were on bad terms at the ti.
"Did you find her?"
"Yes, she was sold to a red-light district. Brianna intended to kill her, but the person assigned to the task couldn’t bring himself to do it and sold her instead."
Ella spoke softly.
The maid had a husband and children. When Ella’s people found her, she hardly recognized her own na.
But at the ntion of Brianna, her eyes burned with a furious hatred, as if she wanted to tear Brianna apart with her own hands.
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