hapter 322 A Split Beyond Repair
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Oscar finished the words Yunice had left unsaid. “The real culprit here is Paul. When Yunice got hurt, you didn’t cut ties with him. You blamed your own daughter for being cheap. The reason Elsie ended up like this is because of you. This is what it looks like when you dig your own grave.”
As he spoke, Yunice turned to Owen and mocked, “And you. You wanted the money and your dignity too. Didn’t expect to end up with neither, huh?”
Owen flushed. Her words had hit him right where it hurt. “Yunice, whose side are you even on?”
Yunice found it laughable. “No way. Don’t tell me… you actually still think I consider myself part of the Saunders family, that I still care about your feelings?”
Owen froze, his face going red.
Wasn’t she?
He had thought Yunice came to help because she still wanted to be close to the family.
She… wasn’t here to help?
Lily broke down on the spot. She pointed at Yunice and yelled at Owen, “See! I told you and you didn’t believe me! This whole thing–she stirred it all up!”
Owen said nothing, because he had no proof that Yunice was behind any of it.
It had been his idea to return the money. It was Taylor and the old man who wanted it reclaimed. Yunice didn’t have the status to make any of that happen.
It was just their bad luck this time. They’d underestimated the Powell family’s shamelessness.
When Owen didn’t speak, Lily lunged at Yunice, yanking her wrist and sobbing, “You have to make this right for Elsie! Get her money back!”
Yunice let her grab on, then pulled Lily close and whispered right by her ear, too quietly for anyone else to hear, “I got used and spat out for years and didn’t get a single penny. But you–you got dragged into the mountains and used for fifteen years, raising someone else’s bastard like a cuckoo. Doesn’t that make you even cheaper?”
Lily’s body trembled violently. She looked up at Yunice, then without warning, raised her hand to slap her.
But Yunice dodged easily and shoved Lily backward to the ground.
“Mom!” Owen and Elsie rushed over. Oscar frowned and stepped between Yunice and the others.
Yunice looked at his shoulder but said nothing.
Owen roared, “Yunice! How dare you put your hands on Mom!”
Oscar’s voice turned cold. “You didn’t see her raise her hand first? Or do you just automatically go blind every time someone tries to hit Yunice?”
Lily sat on the ground, trembling with rage, pointing at Yunice. “She insulted me! Didn’t you hear her!”
Yunice stood behind Oscar, revealing only half her face as she looked at Lily with a sneer.
Sure enough, Oscar asked calmly, “What exactly did she say that was so bad you needed to slap her in front of everyone?”
“Or is it that while I was away, you got used to slapping her around? One bad mood and it’s open season?”
Lily froze. She looked at Oscar, then at Yunice again.
The things Yunice had said still echoed in her mind. but she couldn’t repeat a single word of it out loud.
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