Chapter 133 Especially Terrifying
When Angie and Isabel threatened her that if she didn’t cooperate, they’d ask George to chase her back to the Daniels Family, she agreed without much resistance.
Katie’s words put all the Wendels and Taylors present to shame.
Isabel was the daughter Nigel had raised for more than 20 years.
Angie had also been the apple of Michael and Crystal’s eyes for more than 20 years.
However, neither Nigel, Michael, nor Crystal knew that the innocent, kind girls in their eyes were actually so cruel and vicious in private.
Crystal already had tears all over her face as she hugged Madeline, sobbing and repeating the same sentence. “I’m so sorry.”
When she thought about everything Madeline went through before, she felt her heart ache as if it were being emptied.
The pain went deep into her heart and bones.
She wished she could shred Cameron and Angie to pieces, but even then she wouldn’t be able to get rid of the hatred in her heart.
George sighed heavily before he talked to Michael and Crystal. “I was also in the wrong in that incident. I didn’t investigate thoroughly, and I allowed Dan to do whatever he pleased…”
He was also prejudiced toward Madeline. Also, since Madeline was brought over by Dan to their home, he allowed Dan to punish Madeline and didn’t interfere with Dan’s decision.
He never thought that the seemingly kind Katie was actually so evil inside.
Also, the incident happened when Katie was in her teens. Those were supposed to be a girl’s cleanest and most wonderful years, but she actually did something like framing Madeline and simply watched as Madeline was almost beaten to death, but she still kept quiet about the truth.
She never even begged for mercy on Madeline’s behalf.
Now that he thought about it, it was terrifying.
He thought that they had raised a gentle and kind girl who knew how to repay kindness, but now, they realized they couldn’t have been more mistaken.
She was more like a ruthless wolf.
Michael shook his head and stayed silent.
He didn’t have the right to blame George.
In fact, he didn’t have the right to blame anyone.
He only had himself to blame. That time when his wife had just given birth to his daughter, he had focused his entire attention on taking care of his wife, who was weak and frail. He had overlooked his daughter who was sent into the baby care unit, so Cameron had the chance to switch out his daughter.
He had neglected his duty as a father, so what right did he have to blame anyone else?
The policeman in the lead asked Holly, “Do you still have any objections? If not, we’ll take Katie Baker with us to aid in the investigation.”
“Aunt Holly, save me, Aunt Holly!” Katie knelt on the ground and hugged Holly’s legs, screaming in terror, “Aunt Holly, I don’t want to go to jail. Aunt Holly, I’m still so young; if the policemen take me away, my life will be finished! I was still too little then, and I didn’t know better. I’m willing to apologize to Maddie, Aunt Holly. I admit to my wrongdoings. Please just save me, save me!”
Holly’s heart softened at the sight of Katie weeping so bitterly.
She looked at Madeline, hesitant. “Maddie, Katie was indeed very young at that time. She didn’t know better. Can you just, well…”
“I’m one year younger than Katie,” Madeline said calmly, looking back at her. “Katie wasn’t merciful to me despite my young age. Six years ago, if it weren’t for my luck, I would’ve died.”
“I know you’ve been wronged, but the incident has happened already, so it wouldn’t help much if you brought Katie to justice now,” said Holly. “Maddie, we’ll get Katie to compensate you and apologize to you. Just tell us what compensation you’d like, and we’ll do our best to provide.”
“What compensation? Can money do anything right now?” Sebastian, who had been silent all this while as he focused on coaxing his precious sons, glanced sideways at her. “Were you underestimating me or Mr. Wendel when you said that? Look at me and Mr. Wendel; do we look like men who would mistreat our wife and daughter? Do you think that the daughter of Wendel Corporation’s chairman and the wife of Hart Corporation’s president would lack money or any physical thing?”
Holly had an awkward expression now. “Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean it like that. I was just trying to express my sincerity while apologizing…”
Sebastian said indifferently, “If you want to be sincere, quit yapping and let the police take her away. Don’t waste our time.”
Holly was at a loss.
Her sense of reason told her that letting the police take Katie away would be the fairest choice.
However, in terms of emotion, she couldn’t accept this.
She and her husband only had two sons, and Katie was her biological sister’s daughter who lost her mother at a young age. Katie’s father was unreliable, so she took pity on Katie and raised her like her own daughter.
She worked so hard to raise Katie into the pretty and intelligent girl she was now. Now that Katie was of the age to marry, she would be able to quickly find a good man to marry. Then, she would bear his children and step into the next stage of a blissful life.
Now, if Katie were taken away by the police, her life would be ruined.
Even if they found a good lawyer to work on the fact that Katie was too young during the incident so that her penalty would be lessened, the amount of money involved was simply too big. If they couldn’t get Madeline’s forgiveness, Katie would have to be jailed for at least two years.
No reputable family would want a woman who had been in jail to marry into their family.
Katie’s life would be over.
The more she thought of it, the more upset she got. She couldn’t help but beg again, “Maddie, I admit that that incident was all Katie’s fault. Katie has done you a disservice, but since it has already happened, even if you send her to jail, it wouldn’t help anything. But to Katie, this penalty is too serious. She’s at the age to get into talk of marriage, but if you send her to jail right now, her entire life will be ruined. She was wrong, yes, but she shouldn’t need to be punished so severely. Maddie, I’m not trying to cover for her, but I want her to compensate you in a different way. Just some kind of way as long as it’s not getting taken away by the police. Anything other than that would do.”
“Sorry, I don’t accept other forms of compensation,” Madeline said calmly. “The incident happened six years ago, but no one ever felt like they wronged me or apologized to me. If Sebastian hadn’t found out the truth for my sake, I would’ve bore the name of a criminal all my life. However, she would be able to live her life with peace of mind. She’d marry a good man and live her life in happiness. What about me, though? What did I do to her that I would have to endure the cruel things she did to me?”
Holly knew that justice was on Madeline’s side.
She also knew that her request was a little too unreasonable.
However, she couldn’t just let it go and let the police take Katie away.
She humbled herself and begged, “Maddie, no matter what, we’re all family. Please just see it as a plea from your Aunt Holly to you. Katie is like my own daughter, so if you ruin Katie’s life by sending her to prison, I would be heartbroken. I wouldn’t be able to live my remaining life in peace. Please just pretend that you’re doing a favor for your Aunt Holly and help me. I will be forever indebted to you!”
“A family?” Madeline looked at her, eyebrow raised and a half-smile on her lips. “Miss Baker, your niece falsely accused me of stealing her jewelry in your very own home six years ago. I was thrown into the basement and almost beaten to death. While that was happening, you never said anything about us being a family, nor had you asked Katie to be merciful and let me go.”
