Filed to story: I Got Married Without You
What if Stella found out the truth and chose not to help him, but instead helped someone else? That would be making enemies for him. Instead of taking this risky step, it would be better to completely cut off Stella’s path to the Simpson Group, to avoid future trouble.
Thinking of this, Mike put down his book, took off his glasses, and looked coldly at Karen, who was inconsistent. “Karen, didn’t you have Bart send someone to rape our cousin? Why don’t you admit it?”
One sentence completely shocked Karen. Her widened pupils seemed to be saying, “How did you know?”
It was as if Mike could see through her thoughts. Expressionless, he said, “Two years ago, when you were arguing with Bart in the room, I happened to overhear.”.
Indeed, Bart had approached her two years ago, but she didn’t want to give him money anymore. Bart then used the past incident to threaten her, and they had a heated argument. But she didn’t expect Mike to hear it…
But Mike was only five years old at the time. How could he have such a good memory? And why didn’t he tell her at the time, but instead mentioned it when she suggested giving shares to Stella? Did he feel that his interests were being threatened?
Karen’s shocked pupils, upon seeing the coldness in Mike’s eyes, made her heart race nonstop. And then it sank heavily…..
She suddenly felt that this son was so unfamiliar, even more unfamiliar than when Andrey angrily called her a mistress. At least Andrey thought she had wrong values and blamed her for not fighting back. But the feeling Mike gave her was cold to the bone…
She suddenly felt afraid. Someone like him could very well betray their own family for personal gain. Especially when this feeling came from a seven-year-old child…
Karen wanted to stand up and educate Mike, but her hand was held by Stella. Karen lowered her gaze and looked at Stella, who had turned pale with red eyes, trembling all over. It was only then that she remembered that Stella knew the truth. She quickly shook her head and denied, “I didn’t do it. Mike misunderstood. He was only five at the time. What did he know?”
Stella stared at Karen, her eyes red and filled with anger. “You’re my aunt, and yet you sent someone to rape me and blamed it on Erin.”
When she found out that Bart was the one who sent the money, she suspected it was Karen, but deep down she believed it was Bart acting on his own. She never expected Karen’s own son to accuse her.
Stella collapsed onto the couch…
It turned out it was her aunt who orchestrated it, not Erin…
But she had plotted for ten years out of resentment towards Erin, and finally succeeded in making Erin fall in love with her.
She hurt him, tormented him, drove him crazy, and forced him to die willingly when he found out she didn’t truly love him.
The thought of Erin slowly bleeding to death while she callously refused to help him, her heart couldn’t bear it and started to ache.
All the pent-up emotions she had been suppressing suddenly broke free, tears streaming down her face.
Stella didn’t know how to face Karen. She could only grasp Karen’s skirt and repeatedly ask, “Why did you do this? Why?!” Seeing this, calm down. It was Mike who misunderstood.”
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Then Karen turned her head fiercely and glared at Mike. “Tell your cousin that you misunderstood me. Stop falsely accusing me.”
But Mike didn’t follow Karen’s words as he usually would. Instead, he exposed everything she had done in the past. “Bart used this incident to blackmail you for money, and in the end, you gave him millions. After that, he kept coming to you for money, but unfortunately, he died right after receiving the last payment.”
He was clearly reminding Stella that Bart was silenced by Karen.
How could Stella not understand? She suddenly realized that Erin wasn’t responsible for these things, it was her own aunt. She was overwhelmed.
Still, she couldn’t believe that her aunt had so many people rape her.
Stella couldn’t believe it, but she had to believe it.
Staring at Karen intently, she snapped, “Tell me the truth. Why did you do this?”
Karen, who had been betrayed by her own son to this extent, felt powerless and slumped onto the couch. When she looked up at Stella, the acting on her face disappeared, leaving only coldness.
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Stella smirked inwardly but pretended to nod lightly, just like before. “Aunt, I know you must have had no choice. No matter how cruel the truth is, in my heart, you are still the aunt who raised me, who took care of me. I will always be grateful.”
Before, Stella had always felt abandoned by her relatives after her parents died, but her aunt never gave up on her. She treated her like her own daughter from childhood. Stella was always grateful for that. So no matter what Karen said, she would listen. When Stella was young, she even told Karen that she would do anything for her if she needed it.
Karen was well aware of this and also knew that if she didn’t tell Stella now, Stella would find out about it eventually. When Stella found out herself, it would be a pile of evidence. If Stella, in her emotional state handed the evidence over to the police, Karen would have no way out.
Now, if she revealed what happened back then and soothed Stella with kind words, once Stella’s anger subsided, she could erase all the remaining traces with the help of others. Even if Stella found out about it, there would be nothing she could do about it.
At most, she would hate her or cut ties with her, but with Stella’s respect and care for her, she wouldn’t seek revenge. And the biggest mistake in this whole situation was still Erin. If Stella wanted to hate someone, she should hate Erin.
However, Karen never anticipated that Stella had a voice recorder in her bag. She had been recording everything from the beginning. As long as Karen revealed these things, even if she escaped to the ends of the earth, she wouldn’t be able to escape from Stella’s grasp.
“Aunt, please tell me…”
Sitting on the floor, Stella grabbed Karen’s skirt, looking pitifully at Karen, who was leaning against the couch with her arms crossed.
Karen decided to use a delaying tactic to calm Stella down. After seeing Stella in this state, she slowly began to speak…
“Those people were indeed sent by Erin. He wanted to scare you, but unfortunately your uncle overheard it. He immediately encouraged me to bribe those people and make them act for real. I was confused at the time and thought that if Erin’s reputation was ruined, I wouldn’t have to endure his insults anymore, so I reluctantly agreed…”
Karen finished speaking with a pitiful expression, gently touching Stella’s face.
“I’m really sorry, Stella. I wasn’t thinking clearly at the time. Erin deceived me, otherwise I would never have hurt you. After seeing what you went through, I deeply regretted it and felt incredibly guilty…” Stella remained still, letting Karen’s cold fingertips glide across her face. Her blood ran cold, like being trapped in an icy pond, unable to struggle free, only allowing the coldness to envelope her.
She knew that Karen’s words were half true and half false, the only thing she believed was that Erin didn’t want those people to gang rape her, he just wanted to scare her. So that’s why Erin never explained anything?
Suppressing her anger, Stella slowly lifted her vacant gaze and looked into Karen’s eyes, void of any cruelty. She asked calmly,
“When you punished him using family methods, did he explain himself?”
While Stella was in the hospital, she heard that apart from the thugs who fell into the water, the others who were caught and sent to prison didn’t reveal the mastermind behind it. Erin narrowly escaped.
It was after Stella woke up that Karen forced her to accuse Erin. Erin was standing by her hospital bed at the time, wanting to explain something, but Thomas slapped him several times and he chose to remain silent.
Stella knew that after he was taken back by the Simpson family, he was severely dealt with. She didn’t witness it firsthand, but she saw Erin covered in blood when he came to her hospital room. He wanted to come in, but Karen wouldn’t let him get close.
Until Stella recovered and found out she was pregnant, Erin hadn’t seen her alone. Even when she had an abortion, Erin didn’t explain anything. If he only wanted to scare her, why didn’t he explain to her? Karen didn’t really want to tell Stella, but seeing that Stella didn’t blame her, she reluctantly said,
“When the Simpson family punished him, he did explain that it was just a scare, but he didn’t expect those people to take it seriously. When I heard him say that, I was afraid the Simpson family would believe him, so I slapped him and angrily accused him of making excuses. I questioned him, even if what you said was true, this whole thing happened because of him. If he hadn’t done it, how could you have been gang raped? So whether it was a scare or not, you were hurt because of him. He didn’t say anything after I finished speaking, probably thinking that it was indeed his fault and there was no need to explain anymore…”
So that’s how it was. Because he also believed that he sent people, whether he explained or not didn’t matter. After all, the damage had been done. In Erin’s mind, he probably always thought it was his doing, so he never mentioned this incident to her…
Even when they met again, Erin treated her the same way as before. He must have believed that their relationship couldn’t be reconciled because of this, so he acted like a little boy bullying a little girl, surrounding her.
Stella wanted revenge, so she seduced him and made him fall in love with her, intending to hurt him badly, thinking that this would be a successful revenge. But she didn’t expect that the real enemy was sitting in front of her, looking at her with pity.
This person even claimed that Bart instigated her. How could Stella believe that? Bart wasn’t even in the country at the time, how would he know that Erin wanted to scare her?
After understanding everything, Stella no longer pretended. She raised her finger, wiping away the tears at the corner of her eyes, and looked at Karen with cold eyes.
“If I’m not mistaken, you had already bribed those people, but Erin accidentally fell into your trap…”
