Backstage, there was a row of safes designated for guests to store important items.
The security was top-notch.
Harriet Hamilton was about to place a jar into her locker when Maisie Carlisle entered the room.
“Sister… is there something you need?” Harriet Hamilton asked, looking at her half-sister with a mix of nervousness and unease.
Maisie Carlisle’s gaze was cold, making Harriet uncomfortable and somewhat afraid.
“Who are you calling sister? A country bumpkin like you deserves to be my sister?”
“Remember your place! You’re a bastard!” Maisie Carlisle glared at her haughtily.
Harriet Hamilton felt saddened and lowered her head, saying, “If you don’t wish to call me that, then I’ll just call you Maisie.”
A deep-seated inferiority complex washed over her, preventing her from meeting Maisie Carlisle’s eyes.
Maisie Carlisle rolled her eyes and demanded, “Give me The Elixir of Vigor.”
“What? No!” Harriet Hamilton was startled and shook her head as she stood protectively in front of the locker, “This is a gift from Flynn, no one can take it away!”
Maisie Carlisle’s face darkened.
How dare this wretch refuse me?
Doesn’t she know I’m Lysander King’s legitimate daughter?
In Pelens, everyone gladly offers me whatever I want.
And in a backwater like Niarak?
Maisie Carlisle sternly said, “You’re just a bastard, and you think you deserve something as good as this?”
“You have ten seconds to hand over the clay jar, or I promise you’ll get slapped!”
“No!” Harriet Hamilton shook her head vigorously, tears streaming down, “No, it’s not possible, please don’t force me!”
“Crying again? So annoying!” Maisie Carlisle, full of disdain, went to grab it, “Now would be a good time for you to curry favor with me, and yet you still refuse.”
“You think just because dad acknowledged you as his daughter, you can defy me?”
“You’re nothing more than a tool for alliance, and you dare compare yourself to a legitimate daughter like me?”
“Let go! Let go!”
Harriet Hamilton clung tightly to the clay jar, refusing to let go despite Maisie Carlisle’s tugging.
She didn’t care how miraculous The Elixir of Vigor was; she only cared that it was a gift from Flynn.
Even though she was scared of Maisie Carlisle, she didn’t want her to take the gift away.
“Please don’t take it, I’ll agree to any condition but this, please…”
“Slap!”
As Harriet Hamilton cried out, Maisie Carlisle slapped her hard across the face.
“Are you giving me a hard time? I’ve asked nicely, and you still won’t give it.”
“Let me tell you, if you don’t let go today, I guarantee not a single member of the Hamilton family will remain!”
Seeing Maisie Carlisle’s fierce expression, Harriet Hamilton’s head buzzed.
Compared to the little princess of the Hussain family, the entire Hamilton family was just a bunch of lowly peasants.
Maisie Carlisle would dare to kill the Hamilton family!
“Give it here!” Maisie Carlisle kicked Harriet Hamilton in the stomach, sending her reeling back several meters to sit heavily on the ground.
Maisie Carlisle grabbed the clay jar, immediately excited.
The fine item was now in her hands!
Tonight, I will use it!
“You… you’re too much! I’m going to tell dad!” Harriet Hamilton, clutching her stomach and crying in pain, exclaimed.
Maisie Carlisle’s kick had been brutal, stirring her insides like knives.
“Tell dad? Go ahead! See who he supports!” Maisie Carlisle scoffed.
Harriet Hamilton stopped crying and half-collapsed on the ground, her eyes filled with despair.
Indeed!
She was just a tool, while Maisie Carlisle was Zion’s real daughter!
If it weren’t for the alliance with the Wallace family, Zion wouldn’t even acknowledge her!
What use was there in pleading with Zion?
Maisie Carlisle, holding the clay jar, pulled out a bracelet and casually threw it in front of Harriet Hamilton.
“Here’s a Tiffany bracelet, bought for over three million, now worth half a million. I’ve worn it for three years and grown tired of it, consider it a gift to you.”
Having said that, she disdainfully glanced at Harriet Hamilton and scoffed, “You should be grateful you have your father’s blood, otherwise you could never possess such fine things!”
“You are shameless!” Harriet Hamilton violently threw away the bracelet and burst into tears shouting, “Take your bracelet back, I don’t want it! I only want Flynn’s gift, sob…”
She felt utterly wronged and desperate.
To be manipulated by the Hussain family was one thing, but they also sought to take away the gift she cherished from her heart!
“Bitch, dare you insult me and throw away the gift I gave you?” Maisie Carlisle was furious, kicking Harriet Hamilton in the head and commanded angrily:
“Pick up the bracelet right now, and kneel down to thank me.”
“Otherwise, I guarantee I will kill Flynn!”
The kick was merciless; the sharp heel of her high shoes pierced Harriet Hamilton’s scalp, causing intense pain on top of her head.
Her neck also hurt unbearably.
However, she didn’t have time to feel the pain, hearing Maisie Carlisle’s last sentence made her heart skip a beat.
Even though she believed Flynn was no ordinary person, Zion appeared even more terrifying.
Harriet Hamilton felt that if the Hussain family truly made a move, Flynn would definitely be at a disadvantage.
Not wanting Flynn to get hurt, she trembled as she picked up the bracelet, tears streaming down her cheeks: “Thank you for your grace, Ms. Carlisle, thank you…”
Maisie Carlisle’s eyes filled with mockery as she laughed, “Haha… It’s so amusing, just mention that poor boy, and you panic like a little bitch.”
“So despicable!”
“Having your father’s blood doesn’t change the lowliness in your bones.”
“Remember, bow your head when you see me in the future, I don’t want to see your bitter face again! It’s too upsetting!”
After saying this, Maisie Carlisle strutted away, humming a tune, carrying a clay pot as she left the dressing room.
“Give me back Flynn’s gift, give it back! Sob… Mom, I miss you…”
Harriet Hamilton knelt on the ground, crying her eyes out, her appearance truly pitiful.
Her mother had been disfigured and disabled by Simone Watson, remarried into the Hamilton family, and Harriet Hamilton was mocked as a bastard for over a decade.
Fortunately, her stepfather liked her and protected her, giving Harriet Hamilton’s fragile spirit some support.
But happiness ceased abruptly years later when both parents died in a car accident, leaving her and her grandfather to rely on each other.
Finally, after enduring until graduation, with Flynn’s help, she secured a stable job and received three houses and a million dollars in demolition compensation.
Harriet Hamilton thought the good days had finally come; she planned to care for her grandfather and live a peaceful life.
Unexpectedly, the Hussain family came to Niarak to claim kinship, also forcing her to marry into the Wallace family.
For the safety of the Hamilton family, Harriet Hamilton decided to sacrifice herself, but in the end, they didn’t even spare the birthday gift from Flynn!
Harriet Hamilton felt like a lone leaf adrift on the ocean, facing the harsh wind and waves without any support, filled only with despair.
“Harriet, what are you doing? It’s been half an hour, how come…”
A voice sounded, and Odin Hamilton walked in.
He had been chatting with Flynn for half an hour and came to check on Harriet Hamilton since she hadn’t come out.
He didn’t expect to see such a sight; Odin Hamilton’s scalp exploded.
Harriet Hamilton’s right cheek was bright red, her hair disheveled, and there was a patch of fresh red on it.
“Who hit you! Was it Maisie Carlisle who just came in?” Odin Hamilton roared.
Harriet Hamilton’s head shook like a rattle drum as she cried, “Brother, please don’t trouble her, we can’t afford to provoke them, I’m alright, really…”
Boom!
Odin Hamilton suddenly erupted.
His eyes bloodshot, veins on his face throbbing.
Harriet Hamilton was such a well-behaved girl, how could Maisie Carlisle bear to strike her?!
“The Hussain family has gone too far!”
Odin Hamilton, already a hot-tempered man, could no longer contain himself and charged out of the dressing room!