She Became My Friend’s Mother-In-Law - Chapter 96

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Chapter 96. Rosena’s Desperate Struggle (1)

“…What? Father has been arrested?”

Rosena couldn’t possibly understand the words that had just come from the maid’s mouth.

It didn’t feel real at all.

It felt like she was having a sticky, unpleasant nightmare.

“Wh-what kind of nonsense are you suddenly spouting!”

Rosena, who had been standing dazed for a moment, soon lost her reason.

“You crazy thing! You’re doing this on purpose! I won’t let this slide!”

“Kyaaah! Y-Young Duchess! Please let me go!”

Rosena pounced on the maid, howling like a beast.

She grabbed the maid’s hair and shook her roughly.

“Who told you to do this! Who told you to tell such lies!”

“It-it’s not a lie! Really, the police—”

“Shut up!”

Rosena roughly pushed the maid away.

The maid fell to the floor and burst into tears.

But Rosena didn’t care.

She just breathed heavily and gritted her teeth.

‘Arrested? Father?’

It was absurd.

Count Osburn was a noble of this Empire.

Moreover, wasn’t he the father of herself, who would soon become the next Duchess of Hays?

‘Who dares.’

Rosena ground her teeth.

“Who filed that lawsuit! Who dug up such old matters—”

“I did.”

Rosena, who had been screaming at the fallen maid, stopped short.

Turning around, she saw Cecilia walking toward her.

The sound of her heels clicked rhythmically.

“I couldn’t possibly forgive Count Osburn for murdering my parents.”

“Wh-what?”

Rosena’s heart pounded wildly.

While she stood there with a dumbfounded expression.

Cecilia approached the maid and extended her hand.

“Are you alright? You’ve suffered so much because of that wicked thing.”

“Sob, D-Duchess…”

The maid trembled as she grasped Cecilia’s hand and stood up.

Cecilia personally straightened the maid’s collar before sending her outside.

The door closed.

Only Cecilia and Rosena remained in the room.

Cecilia turned toward her coldly.

“This is my gift to you, Rosena.”

She held out a piece of paper.

“It’s a complaint accusing the murderer Count Osburn. Once the charges are proven, I plan to throw the Countess, who was his accomplice, into prison as well.”

“Wh-what—”

Rosena’s breath caught in her throat.

Our father is a murderer?

And mother is an accomplice?

How dare she insult our parents like that!

And it was Cecilia, who had been living under our roof!

“This…”

Rosena gritted her teeth and grabbed the paper.

Her fingertips trembled and her vision went white.

Was this why she had cooperated with that thing?

To be stabbed in the back like this?

“You-you damn thing! Who are you to say such things about our parents!”

Finally, Rosena’s anger pushed aside her reason.

She crumpled up the complaint with all her might, threw it to the floor, and lunged at Cecilia.

“I won’t let this slide! I’ll kill you today!”

She could no longer see anything else.

She felt like she had to grab that hair and leave scratch marks on that face to feel satisfied.

The moment she reached out her hand.

“…How dare you.”

Rosena’s arm was caught in mid-air.

Turning her head, she saw Rainer firmly gripping her wrist.

His gaze looking down at her was cold.

“Let go! Let go of me!”

She struggled and screamed, but her caught arm wouldn’t budge.

Rainer spoke coldly.

“Is it because you’re a murderer’s daughter? Your violent nature takes after your father too.”

“…!”

Rosena felt like her heart had dropped to the floor.

A murderer’s daughter.

That terrible and disgraceful modifier was really hers?

Watching Rosena’s stunned face, Rainer let out a sneer.

“But you won’t be able to run wild anymore.”

Still holding onto Rosena.

Rainer nodded his head.

At that signal, servants rushed into the room.

“Find a brooch with amethyst and soot marks. Along with parchment letters.”

“Yes, Your Grace!”

They’re trying to take away the evidence of the Dowager Duchess’s murder!

Rosena’s face contorted.

“Let go! What are you doing in my room!”

She struggled and screamed.

But the servants paid no attention and searched through the room.

Clothes and various other items were carelessly thrown onto the floor.

And before long.

“We found it, Your Grace!”

A servant brought over a box.

Inside was all the evidence they had been looking for.

“That’s mine!”

Rosena struggled and lunged forward.

But she was soon blocked again by the servants’ firm hands.

Meanwhile, Rainer and Cecilia opened the box and briefly checked its contents.

“Good, let’s take this.”

“Where are you going! Give it back! You thieves! How can you just take someone else’s belongings!”

Leaving behind Rosena’s screaming protests.

Rainer and Cecilia were about to leave the room.

“…Ah.”

Suddenly, Cecilia stopped walking.

Then she turned around and slowly approached Rosena.

Meeting Rosena’s gaze, Cecilia spoke quietly.

“I almost forgot to thank you. I can’t be as shameless as Osburn.”

“What…?”

“Rosena, thank you for working so hard for me all this time.”

Cecilia smiled coldly.

“I told you, didn’t I? I would definitely repay your share.”

“What, what did you say?”

“How is it? Does it still seem insufficient?”

Rosena’s eyes turned bright red as she gasped for breath.

Cecilia raised her hand and patted Rosena’s shoulder.

“Don’t be too disappointed. I have much more to give you in the future.”

“More to give?”

“Yes, look forward to it.”

It will be more than you can imagine.

Leaving behind a cold smile, Cecilia turned away.

She naturally took Rainer’s offered arm and left the room.

“Wait! I said wait!”

Rosena’s cry echoed off the ceiling.

But neither of them looked back.

Only after the footsteps faded away did the servants roughly push Rosena to the floor.

“Ahhh!”

The servants surrounded Rosena as she collapsed on the floor.

“The Duchess showed mercy by not ordering house arrest. So please behave yourself.”

“Ha! What? Mercy? Behave?”

As Rosena glared up while gritting her teeth.

One servant spoke mockingly.

“What are you staring at so rudely? A murderer’s daughter, no less.”

“What did you say—!”

“Come on, let’s go. Staying here any longer will just ruin our mood.”

The door closed with giggling laughter.

Rosena trembled while clutching the carpet.

To hear such humiliation to her face.

‘This can’t be happening. This is impossible….’

How could everything be turned upside down in just one moment?

The bitter taste of blood spread in her mouth from biting her lip hard.

Rosena staggered to her feet.

“No! I won’t accept this!”

She pounded her head with both fists.

Then rushed to the wardrobe and hastily threw on whatever she could grab.

‘I can’t just take this lying down!’

Soon her figure could be seen running across the garden.

“….”

Cecilia and Rainer stood by the corridor window, watching the scene.

“Get out of my way!”

Watching Rosena roughly push aside the servants blocking her path.

Rainer’s face hardened.

“Is it alright to leave her like that?”

“Yes.”

Cecilia answered calmly.

“Rosena also needs time to accept reality.”

She had never expected Rosena to stay quietly in her room anyway.

If that was the case.

It would be better to let Rosena see despair with her own eyes.

“Wouldn’t that make it more miserable?”

All that remained for them was struggling anyway.

Day by day, her enemies would sink deeper into the swamp of despair.

It was the prelude to the revenge she had waited so long for.

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“Mother! Mother!”

Rosena ran straight to Osburn County.

She was wearing only a robe over her nightgown.

But now was not the time to worry about such things.

“Moth—!”

The moment she burst into the drawing room.

Rosena stopped dead in her tracks.

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