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...
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