Diana’s eyes panicked at those words and a cold sweat broke out on her back.
When she was very young, although Hector had always disapproved of her standing in for her sister, he had not been so blatantly displeased with her.
Diana had a little trouble remembering, but she finally knew why Hector had suddenly changed his attitude toward her.
It turned out to be a scene in which she was seen bullying someone.
Both Antonio and Bianca frowned at Diana’s embarrassed look and turned to Hector.
-What bullying?
-Mom, Dad, you’ve always urged me to get along with her, and Mom has always blamed me for treating Diana badly, but I simply can’t be nice to her. Looking at her face reminds me of how arrogant and overbearing she was when she bullied other girls,” said Hector. The nice girl who is usually in front of you is very arrogant and vicious when she is out of the house.
Bianca was completely dumbfounded.
-Are you telling the truth?
-Mom,” Hector sighed, “the way Diana mistreated Adrian today says it all. It’s not that she’s lost her mind, that’s how she really is inside, she’s as vicious as hell.
Bianca didn’t know what to say anymore as she looked incredulously at Diana.
-Diana, how can you bully someone, are you really like that?
Diana didn’t dare to open her mouth to reply. She didn’t know if Hector had any proof in his hands.
Seeing her like that, Bianca felt totally disappointed.
-Diana, have you forgotten how your former adoptive parents bullied you as a child? You suffered as a child too, why do you want to inflict that pain on others?
Diana ducked her head, her mind was blank as she desperately tried to think of an excuse, and after a long while she said:
-She bullied me first and I had no choice but to defend myself? I just…
-Diana, you are a disappointment to me.
Bianca’s eyes became completely indifferent, as if she was meeting Diana for the first time.
She knew Hector well, she knew he would never lie. If Diana had stood up for herself, Hector wouldn’t have hated her for it.
Diana knew she couldn’t hide it and fell to her knees again.
-Mom, I was wrong. I was confused for a moment, but I didn’t mean to intimidate anyone. I….
-Enough. That’s a trick that doesn’t work well if you use it too often,” Bianca scowled at her, impassive. Don’t kneel before me, I don’t believe anything you say anymore.
The Diana who was full of lies was not the Diana she knew at all.
She had been striving for many years to teach her, but Bianca never thought that the girl she taught would become such a scheming and unscrupulous girl.
Bianca had a sad heart and a dizzy head.
Albina kept an eye on her and, when she saw that Bianca was showing signs of fainting, she gave a quick cry of alarm and picked her up:
-Mom!
When the vision cleared and Bianca found her family staring nervously at her, she exhaled a sigh and smiled reluctantly at them.
-I’m fine.
She was violently stimulated and a little overwhelmed.
Hector looked at his mother’s devastated face and felt a twinge of remorse for not revealing everything to her slowly.
“My mother must be devastated to suddenly find out so much.”
Hector was even more disgusted by Diana and looked at her with reddened eyes.
-They say that the little ones can see old age. When Diana came to our house, she was five years old and must have already had a formed personality. She understood things very early and had her own view of the world for a long time, so it’s hard to correct her personality.
Diana had been totally desperate from the moment Bianca had become exasperated with her.
“Now that Hector and his brothers are already upset with me, if Bianca gets upset again, I won’t be able to stay in the Espina family anymore.”
Antonio listened to Bianca when it came to family matters.
He wouldn’t even hear what Hector was saying, Diana just looked at Bianca with puzzled eyes and kept apologizing.
-Mom, I was wrong, don’t hate me. Mom, I have always been grateful to you for bringing me into the Espina family, and even if I hated the whole world, I would never disrespect you in the slightest. Mom, I beg you, don’t look at me like that, it’s hard for me inside.
Diana’s voice was full of sobs and tears were streaming down her face.
She knew that the priority now was to win back Bianca’s heart, and that as long as she still had a shred of affection for her, it was possible for her to remain in the Espina family.
But to his dismay, Bianca avoided his eyes and said to Hector:
-Call all the servants.
At those words, Adrian volunteered.
-Mom, I’ll do it.
After saying this, he ran out of the room excitedly.
Albina looked silently at Umberto.
“It looks like this boy has quite a grudge against Diana.”
Umberto coughed slightly and said to Bianca:
-Mom, I contacted someone earlier and asked them to come with tools and equipment to look for fingerprints.
-Fingerprints? -Bianca looked at Umberto in confusion.
As Adrian approached with the servants, Umberto looked at them and raised his voice.
-Yes, fingerprints. Although several servants have been in and out of Albina’s room today, I don’t think many have come across the closet and dresses.
Hector’s eyes lit up and he said aloud:
-Yes, Albina’s dress was specially preserved and there was only one dress hanging in that compartment. Albina’s room was carefully cleaned by a regular maid every day and each closet compartment was wiped with a cloth, so the murderer would have left fingerprints even if he had been careful.
As they said this, they kept an eye on the expressions of the servants.
Sure enough, they saw a maid with a nervous expression.