Chapter 1038: Chapter 1037
"You pull another stunt like that, and your little army will suffer the consequences," Serena spat out before abruptly ending the call.
Rosemary knew her parents were never without their security detail—a team of four bodyguards led by a former Special Forces chief whose combat skills were second to none.
Now that with the chief captured; it was clear the rest of the team was in Serena’s grasp.
However, Serena was wheelchair-bound; there was no way she could kidnap so many people by herself, let alone injure the chief.
It was well known that the chief was highly skilled, and no ordinary person could harm him in the slightest.
Unless she had someone else—apart from Stinger, possibly even more dangerous, doing her bidding.
With these thoughts swirling in her mind, Rosemary dialed Stinger’s number to ask if this was the situation.
"Erik indeed has more than one godson. But how many of us there are and who they are, I don’t know. We’ve never met each other. Normally, we each carry out our own tasks and lead our own teams," Stinger revealed.
"I see." Rosemary finally understood.
Meanwhile.
Serena glimpsed the mother-daughter photo Rosemary had set as her WhatsApp chat background. With anger flared up, she switched it to a plain white.
Using such a petty way to exact revenge?
"You’re upset now? When I was your daughter, you never took as many photos of me. You once accidentally deleted everything from your camera, and you weren’t nearly as upset as you are now!"
Louisa closed her eyes, holding back her emotions before finally saying, "I truly regret."
"Regret what? Having me as the Collins’ daughter for eighteen years? Or do you regret spending time and money on me? Or maybe you regret keeping me in this house even after Rosemary came back? Is that what you regret? You’ve hit me, scolded at me, locked me in the basement without a glance, giving me neither food nor drink, and am I supposed to regret calling you ’Mom’ for eighteen years?"
Their quarrel woke Kenneth from his stupor. Enduring a throbbing headache, it took him a moment to grasp the situation. He pieced it together—they were held captive by their former "daughter"!!
He recalled the memory of the day. They were on their way to celebrate Amelia’s birthday when suddenly they were ambushed. The car crashed, and Kenneth’s head slammed against the window. Dazed and confused, he was dragged out before he could grasp what was happening. Someone had clamped a cloth over his nose and mouth.
Now, looking back, the mastermind was undoubtedly Serena!
"Serena, how could you?" Kenneth’s voice was heavy with betrayal. "We’ve taken care of you for eighteen years. You’ve lived in luxury, never wanting for anything. Everyone in our family has cherished you, coddled you from your childhood. Even after Rose came back, we still treated you like our own daughter."
"Your own daughter? How can you even say those words? Can’t you see the difference in how you treated me and Rosemary? Am I blind or just stupid? If it wasn’t for your blatant favoritism, would things have ever come to this?!"
Kenneth asked with great sorrow, "Have you never once thought that you could be at fault? All those tears, that remorse you showed, were they all just for show?"
"You should be glad I even bothered to put on an act," Serena screamed with heart-wrenching voice. "That meant I cared about you! But now, I don’t care anymore."
She now had nothing left.
Her only support, Martin, was also gone.
Rather than living such a miserable life, she thought, it would be better to avenge her biological parents and drag these people down with her.
Living a life as murky as a swamp, she was not at all unhappy, but in agony.
If she was to suffer, Rosemary wasn’t going to have her happy ending either!
Even now, she stubbornly believed that all the problems were caused by blood ties.
She never realized her own faults.
Or rather, she thought her faults were minor, and that others were to blame.
Kenneth, heartbroken and aggrieved, still tried to awaken her conscience. "If we cared only for blood ties, we would have driven you out before Rose came back. It was the affection of those eighteen years, our reluctance to part with you, that we wanted to keep you. The reason we turned you away is that you kept hurting Rose, over and over, without any sign of repentance."
"So, it’s all my fault, and you’re completely blameless? If it weren’t for your obvious partiality, why would I be jealous of her, despise her, to the point of wishing her dead."
"So, the problem lies entirely with others, and you’ve done nothing wrong at all, is that it?" Kenneth closed his eyes too, filled with deep loathing and extremely disappointment. He felt that it was impossible to reason with her.
She now refused to listen to reason, living in her own little world, harboring hatred for everyone around her.
Seeing their expressions made Serena even more displeased.
Never before had they shown such expressions towards her. Before Rosemary returned, they had never even raised their voices to her, let alone scold he
"You care so much about your precious Rosemary, right? Well, today, I’ll let you watch as she dies miserably right before your eyes." Serena burst into an exhilarated laugh.
The mere thought of Rosemary in pain brought her a vengeful pleasure!
But the happier Serena laughed, the more indifferent and expressionless Kenneth and Louisa became.
She couldn’t help but pause and ask, "Aren’t you afraid?"
"With just these few people, you can’t harm her," Louisa was very confident in her precious daughter.
In this dilapidated place, Serena only had three subordinates, and she herself was confined to a wheelchair.
How could they bring down Rose miserably?
It would be good enough if Rose didn’t turn the tables on them.
"Hahahahaha." Serena laughed even louder once she knew what they were thinking. "You don’t really think I only brought these three men, do you? I know Rosemary’s got some fight in her. I don’t underestimate her, but even if a hundred Rosemary came, they wouldn’t be a match for me."
"Dad, Mom." Kenneth wanted to rush over to help them up, but he found himself tied to a pillar, unable to break free.
Louisa, also tied to a pillar, looked at the two elderly people across from her with worry and anger, "Serena, you bound them? They were your grandparents for eighteen years."
"Hahahaha. Now you talk to me about family?" Serena laughed mockingly. "wanted to rush over to help them up."
Now it was their turn.
Finally, it was their turn to be at a disadvantage.
"Honey, are you okay, honey." Bernard, his limbs secured behind him, could only anxiously look over at Cornelia.