Return of the Crowned Heiress

Talia’s scornful laughter coming out of the voice recorder rang in everyone’s ears.

To make the reveal even more impactful, Felicia instructed some men to install speakers beforehand. Talia’s every word could be heard. The speakers amplified the voice recording with excellent sound quality.

Clive’s expression darkened.

It was a short voice recording consisting of just a few remarks. Yet, anyone could tell from several keywords in the recording that the things Talia did to Roberta were more than stealing the poison.

Clive suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, “What are the videos about?”

Talia’s face paled. She dared not utter a word.

She had asked someone before that day to remove any trace or evidence linking the video back

to her in instances like this.

Even if she was caught off guard, she surmised she could make up a plausible story for those

videos.

Yet, Talia never expected the next word from Felicia to land her in deep water.

Felicia directed her gaze to Clive and said, “Grandpa, it wasn’t my first time meeting Roberta when I first came to the Walsh residence. I’ve met her before.

“Back then, everyone in the Walsh family, including you, thought Roberta was sent abroad for her studies. Am I right?

“Let me tell you how our first meeting went. When I first saw Roberta, she was confined in a village where people involved in human trafficking activities lived.

“Her hands and feet were chained. I think everyone can pretty much guess what happened to her there on a daily basis.

“Yet, why did she choose to come back here? Perhaps it was because she was worried about her mother or she still had hope and expectation toward her father.

“Anyway, she made it out of the village and reunited with the Walsh family. Yet, Talia used the videos to threaten Roberta into stealing the poison from the pharmacy and using it to kill me.

“However, on the very same day, Roberta’s mother died. It was because Talia revealed to her the part of Roberta’s past where she was confined.

“Roberta’s mother did not want to be a burden for her daughter anymore. During the very rare instances when she had a lucid mind, Roberta’s mother chose to end her life.

“That made Roberta lose all will to live. She spiked her drink with poison and drank all of it…”

Felicia glanced over her shoulder and looked at Roberta, who had her eyes closed.

Roberta’s whole life was a tragedy.

She had to live life as though she was walking on thin ice, thanks to her status as Harvey’s illegitimate daughter.

In the end, she even lost her life.

Felicia wiped off the tears that had turned cold on her cheeks. She focused her gaze on Clive again. “Grandpa, what do you think we should do?”

What Clive just heard left him stunned for quite a while. With Felicia’s sharings and the voice recording from earlier, it was already dreadful just imagining what Roberta might have been through.

Moreover, she was still just a teenager!

Clive grabbed a cup from the nearby table and hurled it toward Talia with force.

“You vile woman!”

The cup did not land on Talia. It missed her by a few inches and merely grazed her head. Still, she could feel her legs go limp.

She hurriedly explained, “That’s not it. That’s not the truth. Felicia is telling nonsense. Why would I do those things?”

Felicia answered flatly, “We’ll know whether you’ve done those things by just having

someone look into it.

“The village is still there. It can’t go missing. They have a lot of staff at the sanatorium too. There’s no way we can’t find a single witness there.”

It was impossible for someone to completely erase all traces and evidence of what they did. Talia, in particular, was not someone with the ability to achieve that either.

Clive saw no need for further investigation. The evidence they had now was enough for him.

He shouted, “Gerald, what are you waiting for? Throw that vile thing out of the house! Also, call the authorities! Call the authorities now!”

That meant Clive was serious about this.

Talia could tell there was nothing she could do to change Clive’s mind. She collapsed on her knees and begged desperately, “Grandpa, I… I only did those things in the heat of the moment!

“I’m Harvey’s lawfully wedded wife. Yet, I had to see and live with his illegitimate daughter every day! Can you imagine how hard it’s been for me?”

Felicia found it amusing. At a moment like this, why was the man, the cause of all this, keeping quiet as if he was not there? © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Harvey had dated Eileen before he got married. After Eileen fell pregnant with Roberta, he decided to avoid responsibility, left Eileen, and married Talia.