Her eyes rolled so far back they nearly disappeared.
Barret sneered again and again. He waved the security guards off, his gaze turning venomous.
"You really want to make a scene? Fine."
His stare grew colder. "I'll show you, with my own hands, exactly where I stand now. I'll make you understand that you couldn't measure up to my little toe if you had a hundred lifetimes."
My father nodded immediately.
"Once the team leader gets here," he said with a sneer, "we'll ask them to serve as a witness. Then we can have this deranged liar locked up on the spot."
My mother glared at me with the same clenched-jaw hatred.
"That's right. We'll make her see just how stupid she was to run away all those years ago."
"A worthless girl thinking she can turn the world upside down? Barret is worth hundreds of millions now. What gives you the right to say a word against him?"
She looked at me like I was her mortal enemy. And yet I was her own flesh and blood.
I narrowed my eyes.
They really hadn't disappointed me. They were exactly as I'd imagined, down to the last detail.
"Then let's wait and see."
I poured myself a cup of tea, unbothered.