“What did you just say about me, Horace?” Hearing Horace’s words, Laura’s face was disbelief. She must have heard wrong just now. Horace wouldn’t say that about her.
“I said that what you just said made me sick.” His icy gaze fixed on Laura’s body, Horace repeated what he had just said.
Sick? Hearing that word come out of Horace’s mouth, Laura’s body instantly went down, feeling her whole body drained of strength, and the slightest illusion she had just held in her heart instantly vanished.
“I made you sick. No, how could it be…” mumbling, Laura seemed disoriented, tears streaming down her face.
Looking up at Horace in disbelief, Laura slowly lost control of her emotions and cried out at Horace, “How can you say that about me? How can you do this to me when I have nothing left now!”
“You did this to yourself. Don’t you dare blame it on me!” Horace said sternly, “If you hadn’t done the things you did to hurt Clara, how would you have ended up in this situation? I’m not the one who’s wronged you now!”
“But I did it because I loved you.” Laura cried, leaning forward and trying to move towards Horace, her eyes filled with humble begging.
“Horace, I did those things because I love you; I just want you back. Why did you marry someone else when we used to love each other so much? How did you become someone else’s!
“Horace, I love you, believe me, I love you, let’s get back together. Clara doesn’t deserve you at all. I’m the only one who understands you. I’ll be good to you for the rest of my life. Can’t we just be like the old days? I…”
Couldn’t bear to listen any longer, Clara interrupted Laura, “You don’t love him at all. You’re just being vain. You care more about your fame and wealth than Horace.”
“Clara, shut the fuck up!” Turning her head to Clara, Laura pointed her fingers at her.
“What do you know? You don’t get to accuse me of that! I didn’t love Horace? When we were together back then, you were still crawling in some shit hole! We went to school together, we grew up together, he loved me, and I loved him. We had a great time. Who are you to come in between the two of us!”
At Laura’s words, the anger Horace had managed to suppress came rushing back, and he was about to shout at her to shut up when he heard Clara beside him say back with equal agitation.
“If you liked him, how could you have been so cruel as to set him up with others? And you said you had to keep your status as Miss Hutchinson to be with him forever, so why did you fake your way out of the country and leave him alone?”
“I, I…” Laura was speechless at the question and thought for a long time before she managed to gather her breath and say back, “But I came back later. I came back because I loved Horace. I only said I was going abroad in the first place to coax Sean. I was always looking for a chance to come back. I had Horace on my mind all the time.”
Clara sneered at that, “Laura, don’t you think all these reasons you give yourself are funny? You’ve always loved simply yourself. Have you ever thought about what would have happened if Horace hadn’t escaped that year? He could have been burned alive!”
“It wouldn’t have happened!” Laura yelled in denial, “I untied him. I didn’t want him dead, I just wanted to save the Hutchinson family, I…”
“Can you guarantee that by untying the rope, Horace would have escaped!” Clara spoke sternly, “Did you think about his life when you left alone?”
Taking a deep breath, Clara looked at Laura sarcastically, “You say you’ve been following Horace’s news all these years? Well, let me ask you. If you’ve been following him, then you must have known about his disabled legs. Why didn’t you consider returning to the country to look after him then? Why did you wait until you knew he was just faking his disability before you returned?”
“I was, I…” Laura was dumbfounded by the question and couldn’t think of how to answer for a moment.
“Laura, the only reason you are saying you love Horace now is that he has become too good for you to let go of such a good backer. Would you still be back if Horace wasn’t running the Kirkland Group and Solrace Corporation right now if his leg was truly disabled? Would you still be claiming to like him?” Clara questioned Laura, full of indignation.
Laura was a little stunned at Clara’s question. She had been furious when she had first heard that Horace had gotten married, especially after learning that he had married someone of unimpressive birth and appearance. But even though she was mad, she hadn’t thought of returning to the country then. Why?
Laura asked herself this question but didn’t dare to go into it. No, she was not like that. She admitted that she cared about her family and money, but she loved Horace, she did love Horace, and in all her years abroad, she had not even had a boyfriend because she could not forget him.
With this in mind, Laura’s mind was bolstered, and she yelled at Clara, “Yes! I’ll still like him! Clara, you don’t understand what Horace and I feel for each other. We’ve been together for so many years and love each other so much, do you understand? You don’t know anything. Who are you to say that about me!”
“I don’t want to know either.” Hearing Laura still talking like this, Clara didn’t want to pay any more attention to her. Reasoning with such a person was not going to work.
Clara took out her mobile phone, intending to call the police; Laura had already admitted that she and Sean had planned the whole thing together, and Horace and Andre had heard it, so she had all the evidence. This time, she would make Laura pay for the wrong she had done back then.
But just as she turned on her phone, there was a banging at the door. Clara, Horace and Andre looked at each other and shook their heads, not expecting anyone to come at this time.
Frowning, Clara was about to open the door when Horace pulled her back, “We don’t know who it is yet; I’ll open it.”
After saying that, Horace walked straight up and opened the door; after seeing who was banging on the door, Clara’s eyebrows furrowed even more; why was she here?