Niamh’s eyes were fixed on the guilt-ridden Ada.
From the expression of Niamh’s gaze, Ada could sense that Niamh suspected her. When Ada saw that Camille’s gaze also shifted toward her, Ada took preemptive measures.
“Eveline, why are you looking at me? Could it be that you’re suspecting me? I don’t even know Adam and Cathy. What reason do I have for harming them? You’d better not speak nonsense.”
Ada, revealing her malicious side, stared daggers at Niamh as if warning her.
Despite Camille’s dislike for Ada, she believed that Ada was innocent at the moment.
“Mrs. Waldburg, I think this was simply an accident. Ada, Adam, and Cathy were not exactly acquainted. She had neither reason nor motive to harm them.”
“No, she does have a reason. ” Niamh locked her piercing gaze on Ada’s bewildered expression.
As Niamh spoke those words, Carter happened to be coming down the stairs.
Ada’s expression instantly changed. Although she was gripped by panic in her mind, Ada knew that she had to hide it.
“Eveline, have you gone crazy?! How can you just open your mouth and slander me, accusing me of setting the fire that killed Adam and Cathy? What reason do I have for doing that? You’re just too much.”
Ada voiced her grievances as she turned her gaze toward the approaching Carter, whose attractive appearance was accompanied by an air of coldness, then Ada began whining.
“Carter, Eveline is insane. I’ve never even met Adam and Cathy before. Does Eveline think that I’m crazy, that I’d set them on fire? What would I have gained from that?”
Niamh stood up unhurriedly, paying utterly no heed to Ada’s pitiful performance, and spoke in a composed manner.
“You’d have gained by ensuring that Shirley could never stand again, that Shirley’s face would never regain her former appearance.”
When Ada heard Niamh’s reply, she could not wait to sew up her own mouth!
Her unintentional babble last night was indeed the root cause of this.
Upon hearing those words, a sudden realization dawned on Carter.
His cold, emotionless eyes stared piercingly at Ada’s terrified face. “Is there anything else you would like to explain?”
“…” Ada paled. “It wasn’t me. I didn’t!”
“Back then, you had also denied when you disfigured and crippled Shirley, ” Carter said in an insouciant tone, but each word grew colder as he spoke.
Ada, gripped by fear; felt a chill down her spine as she took a step backward.
“Carter, do you honestly have no faith in me, and you’d rather believe this woman Eveline instead?”
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Upon hearing that, Carter burst out laughing, but the smile on his face seemed spine-chilling.
“Of course, I believe you.”
“Really?” Ada looked expectantly at Carter who had just said he believed her.
However, in the next second, Carter’s gaze darkened.
“I believe in myself. I believe that someone like you would indeed do something like that.”
“ ” Ada’s widened as she felt her heartbeat grew more erratic. Presently, Carter’s eyes gaze bore a hint of ruthless murderous intent.
He cared about Shirley, and he cared about her very particularly. That was why he now believed what Niamh had said.
When Ada saw Carter closing in on her, one step at a time, Ada felt as though her heart would leap out of her mouth.
If she admitted to this, she knew what would happen to her.
However, if she did not, what other excuses could she find…
Just as she was still silently coming up with an excuse in her heart, Carter had already forced her to a dead-end. She could no longer back away.
“Carter. Carter, listen to me. It’s not like what Eveline said. I didn’t set the fire. Adam and Cathy’s deaths have nothing to do with me. Carter, I… Ugh
Before Ada could continue, Carter suddenly reached out his hand and grabbed Ada’s neck.
Ada’s eyes widened immediately. Pained, she opened her mouth to cough, but she could not make a sound.
“You’re really something else,” Carter said sarcastically. His gaze looked calm but there was a hint of austere chill in them. “Do you think that, if Shirley were to never get better, I’d set my heart on a woman like you? Do you think you’re worthy? You don’t even have the right to call me by my name.”
When Ada heard Carter’s disdainful statements, her eyes, as well as her face, reddened. It was unclear if it was due to Carter’s words or due to her difficulty breathing.
Carter did not loosen his grip because of Ada’s tears and pain but increased his grip instead.
Niamh, who was watching them from one side, seemed to see Kendrick’s shadow in Carter at that moment.
It was also at that moment when Niamh truly believed that Carter had genuine feelings for Shirley.
The level of concern a man had toward a woman could determine whether he would do something like this.
Ada had clearly been caught red-handed, and she also verified Carter’s relationship with Shirley.
“Carter, let go.” Camille walked over to talk Carter down. Although she, too, despised Ada, Camille was much calmer than Carter. “If you choked her to death, Shirley’s legs and face still won’t improve. Adam and Cathy won’t come back to life either.”
“Then I’ll bury her next to them.” Carter’s gaze darkened and the shadowy chill enveloped Ada.
Ada opened her mouth, still intending to explain herself, but she could not utter a single word. There was only a continuous stream of tears falling out of the corners of her eyes.
Camille, frustrated at the sight, reached out her hand and grabbed Carter’s hand. “Carter, listen to me, let her go first.”
Carter was annoyed but for Camille’s sake, he finally let go of his hand.
However, he did not merely let go. He threw Ada out fiercely. Ada crashed against the cabinet, then fell onto the floor, and let out an agonizing yelp.
Her pain was so great that she could not make any other sound. She could only curl up on the floor, coughing fiercely.
Carter walked over and stepped on Ada’s fingers.
The pain brought tears to the corners of her eyes and made her bones tremble.
However, that was not the extent of Carter’s punishment. He bent down. His dark aura enveloped Ada. His long and thin fingers grabbed Ada’s hair. “Do you know how it feels to be disfigured and have your legs broken? Do you know how it feels to be burned alive?”
“… Cough cough. Carter, no, don’t…” Ada looked at Carter in terror. “I didn’t s… set the fire… I have nothing to do with Cathy and Adam’s deaths. It’s Eveline. It’s her. She’s slandering me. I really didn’t “Heh…” Carter chuckled coldly, and his eyes darkened further. “Guards!”
After summoning the bodyguards, Carter pushed
Ada away in disgust, then took out a handkerchief and disdainfully wiped his hands.
“Throw her into the kennel in the backyard. Beat her if she struggles.”
“…” Ada’s red face turned pale immediately out of fear.
Carter meant it this time!
“N…No…”
When Ada saw the bodyguards making a move, Ada cried, crawled toward Camille, and spoke in a hoarse voice.
“Mom, please help me. Don’t let Carter do this to me. I am the Grays’ lawfully wedded young madam. Even if it’s just in name, I’m still the Viscountess. If word about this got out, it’ll be bad for your name a s well.
“Also, if my maternal family knows about this, they won’t let you off the hook so easily! ”
Ada mentioned her maternal family in the end.
However, it would have been better if she had just kept quiet. Once she mentioned this, Camille’s expression changed.
“Ada, Mrs. Waldburg is right about you. You truly lack both IQ and EQ.” Camille lowered her cold gaze toward Ada, then turned toward the two bodyguards and said, “Carry out Carter’s orders. ”
“Yes, madam.” The bodyguards answered. They immediately did as they were told and lifted Ada from the ground.
When Ada realized she might experience what Shirley had experienced, she was so scared that she started to resist started babbling incoherently.
“Don’ t touch me, you beasts! Let me down! I am the Viscountess!
“Carter, my family won’t forgive you for doing this to me!
“Hahaha. Shirley will only be a disfigured good-for- nothing for the rest of her life! She will never recover in this lifetime!”
Even Niamh did not pity Ada when she heard Ada’s ear-piercing shrieks.
She knew what kind of person Ada was. Moreover, Niamh did not want to interfere with the Grays’ affair.
After Ada had been taken away, Carter stood on the spot for a while before turning toward Niamh.
“ I was right about you back then. You are indeed different from most women.” Carter’s statement sounded like a compliment, but it was not something Niamh needed.
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.