On the auction day, Beatrice was putting on makeup while telling the servants to bring her dress.
But after the servant entered the cloakroom, she did not return for a long while.
Beatrice became slightly unhappy and could only go there herself.
At this time, inside the cloakroom packed with costly jewelry and handmade clothing, Liora was changing clothes.
The gown on her body was exactly Beatrice’s dress. It did not fully fit her size, but the tailor beside her was recording adjustment details again.
The servant who earlier went to fetch the gown for Beatrice was kneeling on the ground, with a visible handprint still left on half her face.
“Miss Liora, this gown belongs to Miss Beatrice. You truly can’t take it!”
“If you act like this, I can’t explain it to Miss Beatrice. Please, I’m begging you!”
Listening to her nonstop talking, Liora impatiently looked at her.
“What does your explanation have to do with me?”
“But Sir gave this to Miss Liora.” The servant became so nervous that tears kept falling as she continuously bowed her head.
“What are all of you doing?” After seeing the situation in front of her, Beatrice coldly spoke, her eyes especially cold when looking at Liora.
Liora told the servant and tailor to leave first and wait outside before slowly replying to Beatrice.
“Big sister, this dress is very pretty. I want to wear it.”
“No.” Beatrice refused immediately. That dress belonged to her. “Take it off right now!”
At that moment, no other people stayed around them. The weak look on Liora usually acted out instantly disappeared after Beatrice refused her.
She brushed up the hair she had just arranged, a little mockery in her voice.
“Older sister, I already tried to leave you some respect, so why don’t you appreciate it? I am telling you this, not asking for your thoughts.”
“You do not need to keep pretending to be the lady of the house anymore. Mom wants Hendrix and me together, and in Hendrix’s heart, there is only me, too.”
She loosened her collar a little, revealing skin marked by intimacy.
“He said he can only feel joy when he is with me. Around his older sister, he cannot feel even a little excitement. If both families did not need a child to keep their relationship connected, he would never want to with you…”
Before her sentence ended, Beatrice raised her hand and gave her a hard slap, directly knocking her face to one side.
“No matter what, I am still Hendrix’s legal wife right now! Even if he already gets tired of me, he still cannot casually remove me from this place.”
“And you! Hendrix only felt sorry for you and cared about you a little, so he stayed with you for a few years. Do you really think you can stand above me?”
“Liora, I already put up with you for a very long time. Stop bothering me again and again!”
Beatrice originally did not want to waste her strength dealing with Liora.
They were the true and false daughters, and that was already a fact nobody could change. Besides, she had already fully decided to leave on her own.
But today, Liora completely ripped away the fake act she always kept, and Beatrice could no longer keep enduring it!
Liora looked at Beatrice with hatred covering her face. After seeing a person walking closer from behind Beatrice in the distance, her expression instantly changed back, showing a slight plotting smile.
At some point, she already held a pair of sewing scissors in her hand. She grabbed Beatrice’s hand and stabbed toward the side of her own waist.
The beautiful gown instantly ripped apart with a tearing sound, and the flesh at her waist became bloody as blood quickly poured out.
“I’m sorry, big sister, I was wrong! I never dare do it again!”
“I beg you, I don’t want to die! I don’t want to die!”
Her crying and screams sounded painful, and Hendrix’s footsteps rushed closer and closer.
When he arrived in front of Liora, Beatrice already had no time to respond.
Hendrix quickly held Liora in his arms. The moment he saw blood flowing from her body, his eyes immediately turned red from panic.
“Where is the family doctor? Hurry and bring the family doctor here! And where are the bodyguards? All of you are useless!”
The family doctor came over. Together, they carried Liora onto the bed to clean and stitch her wound. Only then did Hendrix have time to look at Beatrice standing nearby.
Beatrice wanted to explain that she did not hurt Liora. Everything was only Liora pretending and acting by herself!
But Hendrix stood up and suddenly slapped her hard across the face.
This was the first time Hendrix hit Beatrice.
The corner of Beatrice’s mouth split from the slap, and tears quickly fell from her eyes.
“Hendrix, I did not hurt Liora! She is only pretending to fool you!”
“At first, she was also the one trying to take my gown!”
Right after that, Hendrix’s second slap landed on her face again.
“So just because of this dress, you nearly killed your younger sister? Beatrice, you really are insane!”
He breathed deeply, doing everything he could to hold back the anger in his chest.
“You have to apologize to Liora!”
Beatrice held the side of her mouth, tasting blood slowly spreading inside.
“Why can’t you trust me? That dirty woman who plays with men also deserves an apology from me? No way!”
Hendrix got mad again at the way she acted. He raised his hand again, but when he saw the slap marks and blood on her cheeks, he froze for a moment and slowly put his hand down.
Even he did not notice that, because he had panicked from worry before, he had slapped her so hard.
But when he turned to look at Liora again, lying weakly on the bed with her eyes shut tight, he could not completely hold back his anger.
“I promise on the family’s name, if you keep refusing to say sorry to Liora, I surely will not spare you!”
He told the bodyguards to lock Beatrice in the bedroom and not give her any food or water, wanting to see when she would finally give in.
Beatrice stared at his cold figure from behind. Her heart hurt like it was bleeding, but she still lifted her head proudly. While wiping away tears and blood, she kept speaking to herself inside her heart.
Beatrice, you are going away, so do not cry over him anymore!
Beatrice was shoved into the room by the same bodyguard from before, who had always treated her badly.
His actions were forceful. She dropped onto the floor, pain spreading through her whole body as if every bone had shattered from the hit.
“Mrs. Hawkin’s position without receiving Mr. Hawkins’s affection is only a useless shell.”
Before she could recover, the bedroom door shut, and her adoptive mother called her. The moment the call connected, angry curses and insults came from the other end.
“You ungrateful girl, I told you to give the Mrs. Hawkins role to Liora. Not only did you disobey me, but you even caused her injury.”
“If I had known you were this evil, when I discovered you were not the real daughter, I should have used the Elliott family’s influence to make you vanish completely from this world!”
