Chapter 137
Meanwhile, at Duke’s estate.
After being punished with fifty lashes, Sophie was completely bedridden.
Her back was a bloody mess, the skin torn open, almost too gruesome to look at.
For the past few days, Sophie had been in so much pain that she cried day and night.
Every time the medicine was applied, the pain made her wish she could rush to Saint Grace Nunnery and tear Eliza to pieces, so that she could taste the pain she was suffering.
After a few days of agonizing pain, Sophie heard bad news from the maid.
The new maid was called Annie. Unity had disappeared a few days ago.
Naturally, Gabriel took care of her.
It was too easy for him to make a maid disappear without a trace.
But this method also frightened Sophie.
She felt that this must be her father’s warning to her.
Otherwise, he would not have killed her personal maid.
Sophie was initially scared and behaved herself for a bit, but after a few days of torment, the hatred in her heart surged again, especially after hearing from Annie that Dylan had actually severed ties with everyone in the Duke’s estate for Eliza.
She said, “That damned little slut. I knew she wouldn’t be content!”
She thought, ‘It is clear that Eliza found that she couldn’t get any advantage under me, so she ran outside to stir up trouble!
‘And now she has succeeded!
‘How could I let Dylan leave the Duke’s estate like Eliza did?
‘If Eliza continues like this, I’m afraid Benedict, Matthew, Anthony, even Father, will all be taken away by her!
‘No, absolutely not!
‘I finally got all of this back. How could I let Eliza take it away again!‘
Obviously, she felt that parents were the ones who truly loved each other. It was Eliza’s mother who came between them.
Everything in the Stonor family should have been hers. It was all because of Eliza and her wretched mother that she became an illegitimate daughter who couldn’t see the light of day.
If it weren’t for Eliza and her mother, Sophie fe;t that she would be the legitimate daughter of Gabriel.
Sophie gritted her teeth, enduring the burning pain on her back, her eyes red with hatred, “Eliza’s mother stole what belonged to my mother, and now this little wretch wants to steal my stuff. Over my dead body!”
Sophie gritted her teeth and yelled at Annie, “Tell me everything that happened the day Dylan left the Stonor family, word for word! If you dare to hide anything from me, don’t blame me for selling you off!”
Because of the Duke’s previous order, none of the servants in Sophie’s residence dared to tell her what was happening
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outside.
But Sophie could not possibly give them a choice to reject.
Hearing her threat, Annie could only tell Sophie everything she had heard.
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The most important of these was that it was already being rumored in the Duke’s estate that Sophie was very likely the illegitimate daughter of Duke.
Sophie’s face instantly darkened.
She said, “Just wait until I recover. I’ll skin those lowly servants alive and pull out their tongues!”
Annie trembled with fear at Sophie’s terrifying look and dared not speak.
Now that things had come to this point, Sophie had to come up with a surefire plan to pull Eliza down from her damned position as Holy Lady.
Thinking of this, a person flashed through Sophie’s mind.
There were few people left in the Duke’s estate that she could count on.
But there was still one person out there.
That person was also Eliza’s former best friend. Maybe she should have a way.
Maybe she should have a way.
After all, that person, like her, hated Eliza very much.
Sophie sneered and ordered Annie, “Go and invite Miss Fletcher for me.”
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