This was the first time Laura got shouted at by Andre after so many years. She was dumbfounded and felt ashamed and annoyed after she realized it.
“Why are you shouting at me?” Laura roared at Andre as she was hurt.
All this time, she thought he adored her so she had always felt like a queen in front of him. And now she couldn’t accept it seeing his mean attitude.
“Why? Do you know how much harm that will do to Clara? How could you do this to a woman?”
Andre had always known that Laura would try every means to hurt Clara but he was still shocked by her after hearing her plan. How could she plan to have people rape Clara?
“So what? She asked for it. She took Horace from me. And that’s what she gets.”
Laura didn’t even think it was wrong to do this, but Andre’s emotional response raised her doubt. Andre knew Laura hated Clara and he had even agreed to help Laura before. But why would he argue with her now for Clara?
Looking Andre in the eyes with doubt, Laura asked unpleasantly, “Didn’t you say you’ll help me? Why are you taking her side? Did you fall in love with that bitch?”
“Watch your tongue!” Hearing Laura calling Clara butch, Andre thought that Laura was not only mean but also coarse. Was he blind to like a woman like her?
“So what?” Hearing this, Laura got angrier, “You are in love with her, right? What’s good about her that you all love her?”
“She’s the best woman in the world, and I like her.” Andre was losing a bit of his head. He didn’t care anymore about hiding his feeling for Clara.
“You…” Hearing his confession, Laura suddenly froze and squeezed some words after a long while.
“Don’t you forget why you tried to get near her? I’m telling you, if you don’t help me, I’ll tell her your intentions then. Would she still be friends with you if she knows that?”
“Humph!” Andre sneered. It was so typical. Laura would still threaten him now, but this time she wouldn’t get anything good.
“I’ve already told her that. So if you want tell her again, go then.” Andre stared at her with a harsh look.
“I’m warning you if you dare to say that plan or do that again, and if I find out that you do something to her, I swear you’ll be in jail for sure. Don’t forget what I’m doing for a living.”
“Don’t you dare!” Laura roared at him madly, “Didn’t you like me before? Why would you like that ugly bitch? She’s no better than me!”
“She’s better than you in every way,” Andre said with disdain, “No one would be uglier than you in the heart. Having feelings for you before was the most disgusting thing in my life!”
Andre looked at her with disdain as he said it and turned around to leave. He didn’t want to spend another minute with her.
“Come back here, Andre.” Laura had to stay right there and shout at his back as she was in a wheelchair, “How could you leave me here alone? I just had an surgery, you bastard.”
Hearing the sound from behind, Andre sneered and walked away without looking back. He wouldn’t even feel a thing if someone like Laura died.
Seeing that Andre was walking away without looking back, Laura squeezed her hands into fists so hard that her fingernails were about to break.
Why? Why did all the men around Laura like Clara? What was good about that ugly bitch? Horace and Andre both liked Laura first, then what happened to them that they all lost their mind and liked Clara?
Laura was becoming almost hysterical. She cursed inwardly, “I won’t let you off the hook easily. So what if Andre won’t help me? I can still destroy you in own my way. Bitch, just wait and see. I’ll let you pay back a thousand times more!”
On the other side, Clara was in the ward with Helena after she got out of the surgery. Helena was still in a coma due to the anesthesia.
The doctor said that this surgery was successful and Helena was out of danger but Clara was still worried sick. She couldn’t feel easier in her mind until she saw Helena waking up.
Clara was pretty tired after rushing back from Thailand and waiting outside the operating room for so long. But she didn’t want to get rest and just kept sitting by Helena’s bedside and checking on her as she was afraid that Helena’s condition would get worse.
Helena’s lips suddenly moved but Clara couldn’t hear her clearly. Clara stood up and got closer to her lips in case Helena was not feeling well. Then broken sentences came into Clara’s ears.
“Laura, Laura, I miss you, my baby girl…”
Hearing Helena’s mumble, Clara sat back in her chair and was drowned in sadness and sorrow.
After so many things she had done for Helena, and she still only loved Laura, her other daughter? What about Clara? Had Helena treated Clara like her real daughter for two decades?