“I lost my dad when I was a girl. Out of all of my classmates, I envied Dianne‘ the most because she had a wonderful father who loved her.
“But look how that turned out, it was her favorite father who got her killed! You have no right to call yourself her father!”
With that, Helena swiped away her tears and ran away.
Leo let out a subdued howl and pounded at the ground with his fists until they bled. “How could this have happened… I never meant to kill Dianne, never! I let her down. I deserve to die
His outburst did not inspire any kind of sympathy from me. If anything, it only made me
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sadder and lament the loss of my daughter even more. She was such a wonderful child. She was beautiful with a heart of gold and performed well in school. Just this year, she managed to enroll in one of the top universities in the country. She had a bright future ahead of her. Her youth was her greatest asset.
Tragically, now she was dead because of her father’s infidelity.
I glared at him icily and noted sarcastically, “What do you think your apologies are going to achieve? Are you actually sad about losing her or are you sad about Rosette’s job? Just now, you were going on about how Dianne framed Rosette. Imagine accusing someone already dead of undermining your mistress!
“Don’t you know what kind of person your daughter is?! Shouldn’t you be investigating your dear lover that you have been obsessed with this entire time?”
Rosette frowned and glared at me behind the protection of her bodyguards. Then, she addressed me in an anguished voice, “Clarice, we’re all devastated by Dianne’s death. Still, you can’t start slandering me because of it. I wouldn’t have reported myself to sabotage my own
career.
Leo looked up at me and expressed harrowingly, “I was the one guilty of killing Dianne! I deserve everything you send my way. I’ll take it all. But Rosette does not have anything to do with this. There must have been some sort of misunderstanding.”
I scoffed condescendingly. Even now, he was still fixated on defending his mistress.
I looked at the measly amount of ashes that I managed to recover and cried out hysterically, “I won’t let any of you get away with this! Scram! All of you, get the hell away!”
