“What are you all standing around for? Get her out of here!”
Finn Ashford had long since lost patience with Vianne Williamson. The moment his younger sister spoke up, he shot a look at the butler, silently ordering him to throw Vianne out.
Only then did the butler, belatedly realizing his cue, summon two staff members. In a matter of seconds, they had Vianne restrained and ready to be escorted out.
Their eyes were hard and cold as they looked at her—faces void of sympathy.
But Vianne’s tears wouldn’t stop. Suddenly, she turned to Silvia Ashford, her voice trembling. “Silvia, your foster mother is sick. Can you really just stand by and watch her die? I know you hate her, but she raised you all these years. You can’t just forget that!”
Silvia was completely thrown by Vianne’s outburst.
To this point, she still couldn’t figure out what Vianne was trying to achieve.
It was as if Vianne had shown up at her home just to stir up trouble with every single person.
“Any debt I owed her disappeared the moment she walked away with the Ashford family’s money,” Silvia replied coolly, not an ounce of warmth in her voice.
She almost wanted to tell Vianne that, growing up, her foster mother had never shown her the slightest bit of affection.
Back then, her foster mother still worked for the Ashford family and spent every bit of energy doting on Vianne—Silvia was left to fend for herself, largely ignored.
For years, Silvia couldn’t understand why, as the real daughter, she was the one overlooked.
She kept thinking she just wasn’t good enough, so she tried everything to please her foster mother.
It wasn’t until the truth came out that Silvia finally realized—she wasn’t her mother’s biological child at all.
The maternal love she’d yearned for as a child now seemed like a cruel joke.
“Vianne, spare us the guilt trip,” Finn interrupted, exasperated by her theatrics. “What are you really after?”
At last, someone had gotten to the point. Vianne’s tears paused for a moment as she turned to Finn, her lips quivering, a flicker of raw emotion in her eyes.

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