Mrs. Madden hugged her into her arms. " It's all Harry's fault. If he hadn't carried you away, you wouldn't end up in a family like that. Lyra knew all of this and yet she did it to her own sister. What is she thinking?!”
Mrs. Madden softly tapped Clarice's bag as she voiced her grievance.
If Clarice had not been assumed gone, Lyra would not have ended up with the Madden family at all.
She treated Lyra as her own and even when she got her biological daughter back, her love for Lyra did not decrease.
However, Lyra treated her biological daughter poorly, which honestly shook her.
Clarice noticed the growing resentment Mrs. Madden had for Lyra. At where Mrs. Madden could not see, she curled her lips into a grin. The grievance and sobs were gone.
Finn's height allowed him to see the minor changes on Clarice's face, which caused him to raise a curious brow.
'So, this is the eldest daughter that the Madden family found? She's really something else. A few words and she turned herself into the victim and even won Mrs. Madden's favor while lowering Lyra's status in her mother's heart. It seems like we’re in for a good show.'
"Mrs. Madden, I'll leave you and your daughter be. I'll go have a look at Lyra inside," Finn said as he slightly pushed his glasses.
Mrs. Madden nodded. "Thank you, Finn.
Finn replied with a silent but profound smile before he went inside.
Inside the room, as Finn walked in, Lyra sat on the bed with her head down, looking like a soulless doll.
Finn knew that Lyra did not become like this because of her sentence, which people assumed she would go into a slump.
However, it was quite the opposite as she was not depressed or fell into a slump. She learned how to conserve herself and blunt her edge. Deep down, her personality did not change at all, but she looked changed.
Finn closed the door and looked at her with a faint smile. "Don't you want to see who I am?”
The voice!
Seeing one's enemy sparked anger.
Lyra looked up with glaring eyes and bellowed, “It’s you! How dare you show yourself before me?!"
Finn pulled a chair over and sat down beside her bed. “Why can't I show myself here?"
"You traitor! Traitor!” Lyra bellowed with gnashing teeth. She wished she could devour him alive.
Finn crossed his legs and stared at her with an interested gaze. "Traitor? How can you say that?"
The ridicule on his face fueled Lyra's anger. "You know what you did. You're the one who planned to hurt Sydney and you even planted all your men to do the dirty job at the designated venue, and yet you didn’t admit to all of that. You pushed everything on me! Finn James, why did you do this to me?!" she shouted.
Finn had a glance at the shackle at her ankle and said, "I'm sorry. I don't know what you're referring to. I've never planned to hurt Sydney and never will. You're accusing me and it's not good."
Lyra widened her eyes in disbelief. "Finn, you bastard..."
Finn curled his lips into a grin. "How does it feel being accused? Sydney felt the same as you did."
"You... You were helping Sydney all along?"
Lyra finally realized the truth at this moment. Finn had always been helping Sydney as he was on her side from the beginning.
Lyra furiously beat her sheets. "You told me the six guys took the wrong person and were scared that we would hold them responsible, so they ran and you don't know where they went.
"But the truth is, they didn't take the wrong person. Their target was me from the beginning and they didn't run away. You told them to leave. The two videos... You got them from those six guys. There's no hacker or whatsoever. It was you who helped Sydney!”
Finn raised a brow. It seemed like Lyra got smarter after coming out of detention but she did not get everything correct.
There was a hacker involved.
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