Doted by Many: I became the Top-Tier Celebrity!-Chapter 470 - 469: Paying the Price (Part 3)

Tiana Thorne laughed, "Cindy Sloane, you have a psychological illness, don’t you? Even though Sinclaire can’t save your mother, you still use any means necessary to destroy other people’s things. It’s not hatred that drives your schemes, but your selfish desires."

"I’m doing this for my mother," Cindy Sloane almost shouted.

Tiana’s lazy voice was infinitely cold, "You’re just envious of what others have that you don’t. You want to destroy everything others don’t possess. At heart, you’re sick, and too bad you ran into me because I won’t give you a single thing you want."

Her exposed mind left her almost deranged, "No, that’s not it, it’s not..."

"Why isn’t it? The only thing you can pride yourself on is your mother, yet you’ve exploited all her good to do bad things, Cindy Sloane. What right do you have to ridicule others? How are you and Rosie Rowan any different?"

In agony, Cindy Sloane softly sank to the floor, murmuring, "No, it’s not like that, it’s not..."

The greatest thing about Tiana Thorne is that she knows exactly how to make someone completely miserable, utterly defeated.

Claire Kane didn’t want to spare her another glance, "Take her away, hand her over to the police."

Rosie Rowan looked shockingly at Cindy Sloane’s fallen state.

Her heart had already been struck down by Tiana Thorne, and as she was taken away, she didn’t struggle at all, as if she’d forgotten the more terrifying fate awaiting her.

In Rosie’s heart, Cindy Sloane was an unfathomable woman; she was skilled in geomancy, pharmaceutics, and even taught her concoction...

Such a cool and aloof woman actually collapsed entirely by a few words from Tiana Thorne.

Suddenly panicked, she pleaded, "Aunty, cousin, cousin... Please, I’ve realized my mistake, can’t we consider we’re family..."

"Rosie, enough, who’s family with you? My parents treat you so well, I consider you my own sister, this is how you repay us?" Keith Hawthorne clenched his fists and questioned her.

"But..."

Claire Kane rubbed her temples in some fatigue, "Alright, stop arguing."

"Mom, are you really going to let her off?" Keith Hawthorne frowned, unwilling to believe this result.

Claire Kane clenched her hands tightly, devoid of familial sentiment in her eyes, speaking coldly, "At the beginning of last year, your father wanted to marry you off to Harvey Lewis, you cried and begged me, saying Harvey Lewis was a psychopath, then I pitied you and intervened to postpone the wedding, thinking to find you a good family before that."

Rosie turned pale, a bad premonition rising in her heart, even her voice trembled, "I’m truly grateful to you, aunty, really..."

Claire Kane feigned deafness, continued in a low voice, "After that, I truly made efforts, but unfortunately introduced you to so many young men and you favored none. Considering you’re still young, I thought to take this matter slowly. Now it seems you should indeed be married off."

"Harvey Lewis is indeed lacking; previously I believed he’s beneath you."

Speaking these words, she seriously considered Rosie, devoid of familial sentiment, revealing a faint, bleak smile, "Now it seems you and he are a match made in heaven. In the future, you shouldn’t separate."

Rosie cried out in fright, "I don’t want to, I won’t marry, aunty, I’m begging you..."

Harvey Lewis not only has a poor character but is also very poor, without a car or house, owning nothing.

Crucially, he has a tendency towards violence. A year ago, after she publicly resisted the marriage, Harvey Lewis broke into her room in the night, trying to force himself on her. She resisted, and he slapped her several times.

It was her aunty who prevented the tragedy from occurring.

Now, she’s being married off to Harvey Lewis again, considering his character, he’ll certainly abuse her daily, perhaps even sell her to his brothers for humiliation for money.

He previously threatened her this way...

How did things become like this...

How could it turn out this way?

She recalled her aunty embracing her, crying when she was bullied, a sliver of hope arose within.

Her aunty loved her dearly, perhaps just momentarily angered, things would be better surely...

"Aunty, I truly know my mistakes, I’ll listen to you obediently for the Hawthorne family, just please don’t marry me to Harvey Lewis, I’m begging you..."

Even if Harvey Lewis is worthless, no one spoke on her behalf because she brought this upon herself.

This is the so-called self-inflicted trap, deeds done wrong receive wrong outcomes. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"I won’t marry, begging you aunty, you love me the most..."

Claire Kane had been more than generous towards her sister.

Her sister disregarded the family’s opposition and married a hooligan, Roy Rowan. After marriage, Roy Rowan showed his true colors, abusing her sister, hot and cold, also gambling outside leaving massive debts.

Claire Kane, heartbroken for her sister, aided continuously, even as Rosie was raised practically by her financial support.

Roy Rowan got into a dispute with Harvey Lewis’s grandfather while drinking when Rosie was seventeen, accidentally killed him; to settle the matter privately, the daughter had to be married off, or Roy Rowan would go to jail.

Roy Rowan also had a son, naturally sacrificing his daughter.

Previously, Claire Kane always thought how could a child’s wrong repay the mistakes of the elders?

Looking back now, indeed, she had raised disaster upon herself.

Not wanting to remember this family’s affairs, nor look at Rosie again, she spoke chillingly, "Uncle Lee, send Rosie back, tell my sister in three days to marry Rosie to Harvey Lewis, I’ll pay Roy’s debts. The two families shall never cross paths again."

This was the real severance of relations.

Rosie looked at her in disbelief, "Aunty..."

Claire Kane feigned deafness, not sparing her a glance towards Tang.

Tiana Thorne didn’t feel pity for Rosie marrying a wicked person, this was the retribution she deserved.

Never take others’ kindness for granted, and certainly never use it to harm them.

In this world, there’s no one who’s naturally good to anyone, even parents, spouses, children.

Rosie was taken away by Uncle Lee.

She cried out, "I won’t marry, Harvey Lewis will surely beat me to death, aunty, aunty..."

Her aunty will no longer treat her kindly.

Claire Kane looked at Tiana Thorne, eyes somewhat tearful, "Thank you, if not for you, I really don’t know what to do..."

Tiana Thorne lightly curled her lips, smiling without words.

This ’thank you,’ she could bear.

At this moment, the ambulance arrived at the Hawthorne family’s door, nurses and doctors entered.

Claire Kane glanced at Keith Hawthorne, signaling for him to handle the aftermath, then followed the ambulance’s departure.

This scene of drama, until this moment, finally came to an end.

Tiana Thorne stretched lazily, rising from the sofa, ready to call Finn Pierce to leave.

Seeing this, Keith Hawthorne stepped forward, took a few steps, hastily shouted, "Miss Tang, please wait."