Doted by Many: I became the Top-Tier Celebrity!-Chapter 468 - 467: Paying the Price 1

This is truly heart-wrenching.

Uncle Lee asked, "Miss Thorne, why did you do this? Was Mr. Hawthorne not good to you?"

Rosie didn’t answer immediately, while Cindy Sloane’s eyes flickered slightly, and she lowered her head with a frown.

"I’m asking you!"

Rosie cried out in pain from her arm, shaking her head in fear: "No, no... I didn’t do it. She’s talking nonsense. She’s trying to provoke conflict between us."

Tiana Thorne didn’t look at her, turning her gaze to Cindy Sloane’s face, staring intensely: "Is that so?"

Cindy Sloane’s face remained cold, but the pride in her eyes was slowly fading. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

"I deduced that it was caused by a close younger relative. From the degree of poisoning, it couldn’t have been Serena Hawthorne, so it must be Rosie Rowan, who visits the Hawthorne family every day. She had the best opportunity... and her motive was clear."

Motive...

Cindy Sloane’s expression stiffened, and she instinctively stepped back.

She curled her lips, looked over with her eyebrows raised, and her voice carried a lazy, cold charm: "Miss Sloane, don’t be in such a hurry to leave. After all, you’re Mr. Hawthorne’s honored guest, shouldn’t you wait until he wakes up before leaving, to be polite?"

Cindy Sloane...

Everyone turned to look at her.

"I have other matters..."

"Didn’t you say you’re the only one who can save Mr. Hawthorne? Why are you in such a hurry to leave now?" Tiana Thorne raised her eyebrows again, arms crossed, her voice low and lazy, yet aggressive.

"Since you can save Mr. Hawthorne, my presence here is redundant."

Tiana Thorne widened her eyes, her gaze clear and bright, smiling charmingly, licking the corner of her mouth: "Not redundant. Mr. Hawthorne’s condition today is thanks to you."

Claire Kane, ever wise, immediately caught the implication in the words: "Is she also involved?"

"Mrs. Hawthorne is smart."

The Hawthorne family’s three members all had a cold demeanor.

Tiana Thorne scanned the two women and continued, "Since I came to the Hawthorne family, I’ve actually sensed the cause of Mr. Hawthorne’s illness early on, and naturally took a good look at Rosie Rowan."

No one interrupted her, waiting for her to continue.

She took a sip of the tea her brother brewed for her, put down the teacup, shrugged, her voice filled with disdain: "As a result, Rosie Rowan is just a fool."

Rosie blushed: "You’re the one!"

"So, she would never know how to poison in this way. Her profession is design, and she can’t handle dosages. When Cindy Sloane asked Isaac for the pharmaceutical division, I figured it out..."

The words were too clear.

It was Rosie Rowan and Cindy Sloane that conspired to harm Mr. Hawthorne, leading to today’s scene.

Tiana Thorne continued, her beautiful fox-like eyes narrowing slightly, her lips curved, revealing two sweet dimples: "Miss Sloane, do you have anything to explain?"

"These could all be fabricated by you, why should I explain?"

Tiana Thorne casually toyed with her left fingernails, reminding indifferently: "You probably didn’t catch my key point earlier. Of all partners, you chose a fool. Since she’s a fool, how would she know how to destroy evidence? Just need to look into her, what good deed can’t be hidden from anyone?"

Claire Kane said in a deep voice, "Serena, bring over her phone, and let the servants search Rosie’s room."

"Okay." Serena Hawthorne’s voice trembled.

Rosie anxiously said, "Aunt, how can you trust an outsider and not trust me?"

Soon, the evidence was found, with antidepressant medication in Rosie’s suitcase, perfectly matching what Tiana Thorne mentioned. Additionally, her phone contained chat logs with Cindy Sloane.

Although some of it was deleted and incomplete, it was clear this matter was indeed orchestrated by Cindy Sloane and Rosie Rowan.

Serena Hawthorne looked at the records on the phone, with Rosie reporting to Cindy Sloane.

"I swapped out my uncle’s cold medicine, he should be taking it for a week."

"I put powder in his teacup, he didn’t taste it."

"Don’t worry, the doctor prescribed him some calming medication, I swapped the medication according to the dosage you required."

And there were many more, each record made Serena Hawthorne’s heart ache.

Cindy Sloane never expected to fall into the hands of her partner, angrily scolding: "Idiot! Leaving records to get caught?"

Rosie urgently countered: "If I didn’t keep them, what if you got what you wanted and didn’t keep your word? I could only keep them to threaten you."

Cindy Sloane closed her eyes briefly, unable to communicate with such a fool.

At this moment, Rosie felt panic for the first time, shaking her head, tears falling one by one, where was the trace of her confidence?

She apologized repeatedly to the Hawthorne family: "Aunt, cousin, cousin, I know I was wrong... I was also used by a villain, it was all her doing, all her!"

Serena Hawthorne strode over, raised her hand, and gave a harsh slap.

Rosie’s cheek showed several red finger marks.

"You’re the one who swapped out the medicine, when you could have chosen not to be used by her, you almost killed my dad!"

"Cousin..."

Serena Hawthorne gritted her teeth, "Don’t call me cousin, you’re not worthy!"

Isaac Ford gazed at Rosie Rowan.

She shivered, at that moment feeling as if Isaac was looking at someone already dead...

She murmured, "Isaac..."

He indifferently shifted his gaze: "Now that we know the cause of the illness, how do we save Mr. Hawthorne?"

"The ambulance will arrive shortly; we’ll give the doctor the medication found in Rosie’s room along with the chat records. It clearly shows the dosages. Once the doctor knows the cause, they can prescribe the right medicine. As long as Mr. Hawthorne cooperates actively with the treatment, he can recover quickly."

Claire Kane’s tears fell once more, grateful that Heath Hawthorne wasn’t suffering from an incurable disease and could recover, but saddened that her niece, whom she had watched grow up, was the mastermind.

She choked back tears for a while before asking, "Rosie, why?"

Rosie frantically pleaded, "Aunt, I’m your niece, please don’t let me go to jail, I beg you..."

"Tell me why?!" Claire Kane suppressed the pain in her eyes, raising her voice.

Rosie dared not speak. She peeked at Isaac Ford, feeling as if she had been lowered into the dust.

Cindy Sloane knew the evidence was irrefutable, she couldn’t escape, she sneered: "Because I told her, if she helped me with this, I could use feng shui to change her fate with Isaac Ford, to bring them together, she believed."

Rosie’s face turned pale instantly...

Isaac Ford’s brow didn’t even wrinkle, as if this had nothing to do with him.

The greatest harm one person can cause to another is not disgust, but rather an unyielding indifference to whatever the other does, not affecting their emotions.

Rosie, stimulated by his indifference, her mind went blank, remembering Isaac Ford’s warm act of making tea for her, and painfully questioned: "I love you so much, hurting my respected uncle for you, how can you be so cruel to me?"

Tiana Thorne laughed: "Ha..."