441.Chapter 441
She didn’t ask. It was a statement.
Up until now, Diana had been wondering whether the masked assassins chasing her were sent by Sophie or perhaps some other faction that had caught wind of her impending rise to empress
But the moment she saw Isabelle, everything clicked into place.
Gritting her teeth, Diana straightened her battered frame and sneered. “You couldn’t wait to make your move the second you heard I was back in Hasen City, huh? I didn’t realize you hated me this much.”
Diana had always known Isabelle harbored a strange hostility and hatred toward her
She’d thought it was because of the time she stormed into the Henderson estate, publicly exposing Isabelle’s betrayal and dragging her reputation through the mud, making everyone in Hasen City see her as heartless and ungrateful.
But even that didn’t fully explain it.
The hatred might have started then, but the hostility had been there from the very beginning, from the moment they first
met
To this day, Diana still couldn’t figure it out.
But deep down, she had a feeling that it was all because of Eliza.
“Diana, why did you come back to Hasen City?” Isabelle stood frozen in place, her gaze sharp and icy, fixed on Diana as if she wanted to carve a piece of flesh from her.
Isabelle stood frozen in place, her gaze sharp and icy, fixed on Diana as if she wanted to carve a piece of flesh from her. Diana gripped her riding crop tightly. Despite her disheveled state, she carried herself with unshaken pride. She sneered, her voice dripping with contempt. “What’s it to you if I come back? Mind your own damn business!” Isabelle’s teeth clenched, her eyes blazing with fury. “You already left! Why come back now? Are you here to take something else from me? You’re the daughter of the Baker family. You already have everything! Why do you still have to take what’s mine? Why?”
“Take something from you?” Diana frowned, her gaze piercing. “What could I possibly want from you?”
She scoffed, her tone laced with derision. “Look at you. You are a nobody, an unwanted illegitimate daughter. What could you possibly have that I’d want?”
Isabelle’s eyes turned bloodshot, her voice rising to a shrill pitch. “You took Eliza from me!”
That single accusation made Diana pause for a moment before she threw her head back and laughed, her voice dripping with scorn. “You’re accusing me of taking Eliza from you?”
Diana found Isabelle utterly laughable. A twisted smile spread across her face. “Isabelle, let me tell you something. Eliza and I grew up together. The bond we share is something a latecomer like you could never hope to compare to!
“Especially since you almost killed her!”
Diana’s glare was fierce, her words spat out through gritted teeth,
But the moment Isabelle heard that, her eyes flared with intense hatred. “Shut up!
“You’re the real snake! I saved Eliza’s life! I should’ve been her savior, her closest friend. But then you had to exist!
“Diana, who do you think you are? So what if you grew up with her? In the end, you abandoned her and ran off to Westshire!
“Where were you when Eliza was hurt? When she was bullied? When she was forced to become a nun? You were nowhere! So what good are you?”
Diana’s face darkened instantly, though she let out a bitter laugh. “And what about you? You stayed in Hasen n City, didn’t you? What did you do? Stand by and watch?”
“No, I made Eliza the Holy Lady she was meant to be.” Isabelle’s face lit up with smug satisfaction as she spoke. Isabelle’s face lit up with smug satisfaction as she spoke.
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