Chapter 15
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But Aurelian no longer wanted to believe even one word she said. He wouldn’t even look at her anymore, completely rejecting everything. “I can’t
believe I ever trusted someone like you. If you hadn’t kept framing Celia, how would she and I have ended up like this?”
“Raya, you make me sick.”
His blunt disgust left Raya sitting frozen on the floor, unable to move for a long time.
The meaning behind his words made her pause, or perhaps because all pretenses had been stripped away, she stared at Aurelian intently until he grew uncomfortable.
As he turned to leave, Raya endured the pain and stood up, wiping away her tears. The look she gave them now held only hatred and mockery. “Aurelian, you call me vicious–do you think you’re any better?”
She turned to Conrad, Millicent, and Silas, seeing the disgust and disappointment in their eyes.
“You’re all selfish, stupid, pathetic, and ridiculous.”
“Come to think of it, Celia really was pitiful. She got in that car accident trying to save you, spent five felt no guilt or gratitude–instead you adopted me because I resembled her.”
“Isn’t that absolutely laughable?”
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She looked mockingly at Aurelian. “What you’re saying now sounds so devoted, but really? Search your heart–were you ever truly devoted to Celia?”
“Childhood sweethearts who grew up together, but after I appeared for just two years, you fell in love with me. You bent over backwards for me while humiliating Celia at every turn. Is that your idea of devotion?”
“You’re angry now, you hate me, but it’s not because of your deep feelings for Celia. It’s because you can’t accept the reality that you killed her. You want to push all the blame onto me to ease your own guilt.”
“Nothing you’re doing is for Celia–you just want peace of mind.”
Raya shifted her gaze to Silas.
“You’re just as selfish, hypocritical, and incredibly stupid.”
“Celia was your sister for over twenty years–didn’t you know her character? But you threw away decades of sibling bond to fuss over me instead. I should thank you for that brilliant fake death scheme–without your idea to torment Celia that way, she wouldn’t have died so quickly and completely.”
“And after living together for five years, did you really not know what I was doing to Celia? Were you truly ignorant, or did you just choose not to
know? You know the answer.”
“My methods weren’t even clever–they were clumsy. But you still fell for every trick.”
“If you’d truly treated Celia as your sister, shown her even the slightest care, I never could have done any of this right under everyone’s noses.”
She laughed maniacally, the sound chilling.
“My dear brother, you control the Fairborne empire–what truth couldn’t you uncover? And you say I hurt her? That’s even more ridiculous. I never laid a hand on her, never physically harmed her.”
“You were the ones who ran her down with a car because of my words. You put her in that oven, pushed her off the roof, arranged for those men to assault her in the hospital.”
“All the suffering she endured was never inflicted by me–it was you. You tortured her until she wanted to die, and even when cancer was killing her, she was so desperate to escape you that she chose suicide.”
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“I’m vicious, I’m a murderer, but you’re not innocent either. I didn’t kill Celia alone–you’re all murderers.”
Each word pierced their hearts like a sword, making them gasp for air.
Raya wasn’t done with them yet. Her gaze bore into each person, scanning their faces.
“We killed Celia together. We’re all murderers. Not one of you is innocent.”
Even as the bodyguards dragged Raya down to the basement, she was still screaming curses at them.
But soon they muffled her cries.
The entire room fell into deathly silence. The four of them sat in stillness, lost in their own thoughts.
Raya’s words echoed in each of their minds.
Millicent fainted from the shock, throwing the entire Fairborne household into chaos.
Aurelian didn’t remember how he got home. He wandered dazedly into the garden and dismissed the staff.
Looking at the jasmine flowers planted there, Celia’s image suddenly appeared before his eyes.
They’d been childhood sweethearts. Little Celia used to love playing at his house.
Back then the yard was bare, with no flowers at all.
This jasmine plant was something Celia had brought over–they’d planted it together with their own hands.
“Jasmine for you–may we never part.”
Every year, he used to give Celia a bouquet of jasmine for her birthday.
This year’s jasmine bloomed right on schedule.
But everything else had changed.
Back then, when Celia looked at him, her eyes always sparkled like a summer night filled with stars. Now she was gone from this world forever.
Aurelian’s gaze swept over every plant and blade of grass in the yard. Only now did he realize how many memories of Celia lay buried deep in his
mind.
Every smile, every expression was etched into his heart.
He opened his mouth but couldn’t make a sound, his throat painfully dry.
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