Isabella was desperate to showcase her innocence.
She was equally desperate to sever all ties with Agnes and prove her loyalty to the Lancaster family.
She rushed forward, pointing right at Agnes's nose and cursing viciously. "It's all your fault! You wicked old hag, you manipulated me into doing those things! Why did you try to ruin me?!"
"It was you! You destroyed me! You made me turn against my family!"
"You worthless maid!"
As she hurled insults.
She even raised her foot and kicked Agnes ruthlessly.
Once.
Twice.
"It's all your fault! All your fault!"
Her distorted, hideous face looked absolutely terrifying, completely stripped of the gentle, well-mannered heiress persona she usually wore.
Agnes was kicked to the floor, but she didn't dodge or utter a single sound. She just let Isabella kick her.
Tears streamed down her face as she looked deeply at Isabella, her eyes filled with nothing but sorrow and aching pity.
This entire scene filled everyone in the Lancaster family with profound disgust.
"Enough!"
Catherine couldn't watch this any longer. "Pull them apart!"
The way she looked at Isabella grew colder, more disappointed, and utterly repulsed.
That woman, Agnes, was the nanny who had raised Isabella since she was a baby.
Even if she was just a servant.
If you raised a dog for twenty years, you'd have feelings for it, let alone a person who had been by your side for two decades.
The reason Catherine had been soft-hearted and kept Isabella around in the first place was precisely because of that emotional bond.
Wasn't it because she believed the child she raised could get along peacefully with her biological daughter?
This Isabella...
She knew she couldn't sign it.
Once she did.
She would truly be left with nothing.
Without the halo of the Lancaster heiress, without money, how was she supposed to survive in Vaelion City?
Isabella looked to Agnes for help.
Agnes scrambled on the floor, dragging herself toward Catherine. "Madam, it was my fault, it really had nothing to do with Miss Isabella... You and Miss Isabella have been mother and daughter for twenty years. She's called you Mom for twenty years. If you really cut ties with her, Miss Isabella will die..."
Before she could even grab Catherine's leg, Edward kicked her away. "It's precisely because of those twenty years of affection that we went soft time and time again, giving you people endless opportunities to hurt Serena!"
"Agnes Thorne, you stole a billion dollars from the Lancaster safe in the United Realmon States. Did you honestly think you could walk away from this unscathed?"
Agnes's lips trembled, but she couldn't utter a single word for a long time.
Catherine looked at Agnes collapsed on the floor, her face completely devoid of expression.
Her voice was freezing. "Agnes, you've been with the Lancaster family for so many years, and we have never mistreated you."

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