Regret Came Too Late

Carmen, unable to take it anymore, slapped Alice once again. She was so enraged that her shoulders were trembling.

The loss of her husband, combined with seeing her favored daughter in such a ghastly state, made her think this was perhaps her own karma catching up to her.

Seeing Carmen's expression, Alice realized that Quentin really was dead and started cackling again.

"Mom, let me be honest with you-Grandpa's death back then was also related to me. I told him that Grace was whoring herself out to a bunch of guys just to chase after Yancey. The old man was too weak in the head to handle it, so he went and croaked. Good riddance! He had it coming!

"I wanted you all to know that anyone who gets mixed up with Grace is gonna get burned. Grandpa was the first to learn that lesson, and now, it's Dad's turn. All these years, you've hated Grace. You never once suspected I was the one pulling the strings, did you?

"So what if you know now? As far as Grace is concerned, you're no longer family and she'll never forgive you. Also, I've already signed over my shares to Edric. Lambert Group is about to go to someone else. You all deserve it, you bunch of lowlife trash!"

Carmen's eyes were filled with disbelief. She even thought she might have misheard.

"What did you say? Even your Grandpa..."

never bullied me. It was me. I faked everything. And all of you were so naive that you believed it! Haha! Serves you right for all the crap you put me through. My return to the Lambert family was about settling the score, and now, look at you all-miserable as

"Why would you do this? Why? Your

life-a life where people envy me wherever I go.

I was his wife. I hated it all. The whole world wronged me, so the whole world owes me. And I want revenge on all of

to the

now realized that

her fault. She

a result, she had always sided with her, never once allowing Grace to defend herself. It was because of Alice that the Lambert family was in

floor and grabbed Alice by

eyes growing even more crazed. "Are you going to strangle me to death? Doat, then! Kill me, your own daughter! want you to feel that guilt for the rest of your life. You should've never given birth to me in the

such words from the daughter she had once cherished, Carmen couldn't take it and fainted on the

door and asked a doctor to

to get up, but she was too