"Carla, " Simeon said, feeling rather embarrassed. "Your father built this villa for you
originally. We've been living here for four years and now it's finally returned to its original
owner."
"The reason I saved you was all because of the kid, " Carla whispered. "I didn't do it to get
anything."
"I know." Alia gave her a bitter smile and continued, "We're feeling even more guilty
because you saved us without holding any grudges. Let us use this chance to make up for
our mistakes."
After pausing for a moment, she took out a bill and handed it to the former.
"These are the fortune your father left when he got into the accident. I'm really ashamed to
say this but we took advantage of you for being young and naive. We took this villa for
ourselves and even got ourselves three factories for a very low price. However, we've
already used up all of the money when buying off headlines and searches previously. We
even sold the factories and used the money. We don't have much money to our names now.
So we can only give you this villa and this…"
Alia opened up a jewelry box.
Carla looked up and instantly saw the ruby necklace Zayn gifted her.
"I've hidden this necklace so that I could sell it off if I was ever in desperate need of money.
Not even my husband or Lola knew about this."
She smiled bitterly and added, "I'm such a shameless person. I don't have money that I can
compensate you for and can only give you the villa and the necklace just to give myself
peace of mind."
"This…"
"Just take it." Simeon shoved the documents and jewelry box into Carla's arms and said,
"These are all yours to begin with!"
"But what's going to happen to you now that you've given me these? Won't you be broke
now?"
The latter knew that they didn't really have much savings now as Alia wasn't wearing
any jewelry today. It was obvious that they had already run out of fortune.
"It looks like you don't know." Alia shuddered as she spoke, "Lena said that for the
sake of Mr. Giblo, she'll give us seven million as compensation."
Tears fell from her face at that. Even though she was trying her best to hold them back, she
couldn't stop her body from shaking.
"My poor Lola… She's been in such a mess all because of those animals. Her life's ruined
yet the evil woman dared to use the money to humiliate us. That b___h can go to hell!"
Simeon's body was also shaking by then and tears fell from his face.
Carla was truly upset upon hearing this. She had never truly experienced the evil of
human nature. She once thought that Alia and Lola were evil enough but she finally
understood what the meaning was of ruthless after hearing what Lena did.
The seven million she gave was obviously to compensate Lola for being raped by the seven
men.
It was just like sending daggers to the family's hearts.
"Thanks." Carla took the stuff and asked, "What are your plans for the future?"
"What other plans could we have?" Alia wiped away the tears from her eyes. "We aren't
able to fight against the Chromas and the Staytons so we can only bring Lola away from H
City for now. But I believe in karma. They're definitely going to be punished for what they did
one day."
With that said, Simeon burst into tears. "Aren't we getting punished for our sins now? We
treated you like rubbish in the past and now we're being punished twice as much by God."
His wife lowered her head and she continuously wiped the tears from her eyes.
Carla sympathized with them but she didn't know how she should console them.
After a long time, Alia finally recollected herself. She took a deep breath and said, "We'll
be leaving tonight, Carla. I don't know if we'll have the chance to see each other again in
the future. And I'm afraid there might not be another chance to say this if I don't tell you
now."
"What is it?" Carla asked in confusion.
"It's about your father's-"
She met eyes with the Giblo family's bodyguard standing by the door and immediately
stopped talking.
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