Chapter 604

Upon hearing the familiar name, Diana finally stopped. Her palms had swelled slightly by now, and she hid her trembling hands behind her back before demanding, “What do you want to say?!”

That was the village Diana had lived in during her childhood. Even if Kayla had learnt the name of the place from James, there was no reason to bring it up at this moment.

Now that Diana had finally stopped, Kayla couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. It was at least a temporary respite for her.

Diana was so despicable… She almost beat Kayla’s face to a pulp!

However, Kayla didn’t dare direct her angry gaze to Diana, nor did she dare insult the latter further.

Instead, she took a deep breath and said, “Because… I’ve been to Yale Village before.”

Then, she proceeded to reveal the truth about how she had taken Diana’s place and taken the credit for saving Julian.

The more Diana listened, the more shocked she was.

As it turned out, it wasn’t that she and Kayla had saved Julian! The connection Kayla and Julian had that spanned more than a decade… should have been hers to begin with!

Diana and Julian should have been closer and spent more time together…

Yet, Kayla had stripped it all away!

Diana could hardly describe the extent of her rage at this very moment.

“So… You’ve been lying to Julian all these years?”

“Yes,” Kayla replied. Now that the burst of adrenaline was gone, she was reluctant to say so much and stuck to short answers.

“If you want to get your hands on the ashes of your two b*star- I mean…” Kayla quickly corrected herself as Diana’s expression twisted, “your children, then you have to plead with Julian on my behalf and spare my life.”

It was the only way Kayla could continue to exploit this debt of gratitude, which was her golden ticket.

“If you tell Julian the truth about who saved his life or refuse to plead for me, then you can consider those ashes to have been thrown into the sewer on that rainy day.”

This was the second time Kayla had mentioned the ashes.

Diana’s heart clenched tightly. “Did you really not throw them down into the sewers?”

“No,” Kayla replied, noting the slight change in Diana’s expression.

Kayla knew she had hit a nerve, so her tone grew arrogant again. She even shrugged casually before saying, “I can’t help it if you don’t believe me.”

Seeing how confident Kayla was acting, Diana’s initial doubts started to waver.

She deliberately gave Kayla the wrong information to test the latter and demanded, “How did you preserve the ashes in a jar?”

Kayla was quick to correct Diana. “It’s not a jar. It’s a tube.”

The fetus was unformed, and the ashes were just a tiny bit of powder-like substance that barely occupied even a tenth of the medicinal tube in which it was stored.

But that minuscule amount of ashes, smaller than a fingernail, was now Diana’s Achilles’ heel.

As long as Kayla had something to hold over Diana, it was equivalent to having control over Julian.

Kayla could clearly see this, so the smile on her face continued to grow.

“So, what do you say? Will you help me plead for my life?”

Diana’s heart clenched tightly again when she thought of Julian.

“Julian’s life hangs in the balance. How do you know if I’ll have the chance to help you plead for your life?”

Kayla’s expression dimmed when she heard this.

“He hasn’t woken up yet?”

Julian had always seemed strong in her eyes. She had thought he wouldn’t lose his life from a single stab.

She never considered the possibility that he might never wake up.

“No,” Diana said bitterly, shaking her head.

Suddenly feeling weak, she sat down on the ground. Her white dress was stained with dirt and dust, yet she seemed oblivious to it all.

“He’s still in surgery.”

“He won’t die!” Kayla yelled firmly. “He definitely won’t die!”

Even if Julian were to die, he couldn’t die from her hands!

If that happened, she would never have a way out!

Diana assumed that Kayla had some feelings for Julian since they had been together for a long time, hence Kayla’s refusal to accept the reality.

“Life and death aren’t something you and I can decide.”

“Yes we can! How can we not?” Kayla insisted. “If he dies, I’ll definitely go to jail! I don’t want to go to jail! I don’t want to!”

So, ultimately, it was all about herself.

This woman was beyond redemption.