Chapter 649

In the end, he decided to let Diana settle her problems herself.

He had better not interfere too much.

As for Kayla…

Diana toyed with the USB drive Noel gave her, pondering for a moment before finally inserting it into the computer.

It was about time.

She wanted to see what ultimately happened to Kayla.

Noel said that it wasn’t gory, and it certainly wasn’t.

In fact, what she saw on her computer screen was a solemn trial in a courtroom.

Kayla sat on the defense table and received all sorts of interrogations.

The key accusations against her were counts of kidnapping, drugging Diana, and being in cahoots with Luke in attacking Julian on that rainy day.

She had indirectly caused many deaths. Ultimately, the country had rules that its people had to abide by.

Although Kayla’s crimes did not deserve the death sentence, her crimes added up and she ended up with a lifelong imprisonment.

Julian’s lawyer had to be credited for Kayla’s harsh sentence.

He had put forth such a strong and impermeable case that Kayla’s lawyer had no way of counterattacking.

When the trial was about to come to an end, the judge asked Kayla, “Do you have anything else to say?”

Kayla had only one thing to say, which she repeated incessantly, “I want to see Julian Fulcher! I want to see Julian Fulcher!”

And yet, Julian would never see her ever again.

Her dream of being Mrs. Fulcher was completely shattered.

That was the utter hopelessness that he had given her, and the greatest punishment meted on her.

Julian had, of course, considered this when he decided to give her jail time.

Diana smiled. She was originally dissatisfied with this court case, but after watching the footage, she finally understood.

Rather than killing someone, it was better to expose the person’s intentions and heart to the world.

Kayla would be in eternal torment of wanting to see Julian but never having her wish fulfilled. She would live the rest of her life with her wrecked voice, disfigured face, and dissatisfied heart.

A fate worse than death.

In the video, Kayla could be seen struggling and refusing to be detained. She looked to be in utmost pain-even deranged-and Diana smiled as she witnessed the scene.

Yet… Tears started flowing amidst her smile.

Whatever it was, Kayla was ultimately still her younger sister.

In the end, it was a combination of James’s viciousness, Kate’s vanity and Lucy’s shamelessness that led the sisters to their plight today.

In the middle of a dark, sleepless night, Diana wondered if any of these three would one day come to genuinely repent of their behavior.

“Of course not!” James spat on the floor. “Even if I were to die, I’d never leave the Winnington family!

Go! Tell my father to come and see me!”

Kate had cried for days on end, until her eyes were red and swollen. “James, Father already said that he’d never see us again and that the Winnington family will never accept us again. He told you to give up all hope of ever returning to the family.”

“How could that be?!” James had been wearing his tunic suit over the past few days; it had signs of dirt and stains clinging on it.

Yet James, who had always cared about his appearance, didn’t even care.

He sat dejectedly on the bench as tears fell from his eyes.

Kate was originally waiting for him to give her a direction on what to do, but the sight of him dashed all hopes in her heart. “The Winnington family…” Her lips trembled as she went on, “Are we really never able to return to it?”

“We’ll never be able to return! Never!” James yelled at the top of his lungs as he smashed everything he could get his hands on. Deafening sounds of things crashing on the floor could be heard. When that was unable to vent his anger, he gripped Kate’s chin and snarled, “It’s all your fault for giving birth to that b*tch Diana!”

That little b*tch! How dare she scheme against her own father!

“I’m her biological father! How could she treat me like this?!”

Kate saw him looking almost deranged and shouting words of filth. Coupled with her hopelessness of returning to the Winnington clan, she began to lose all respect for him and even started to reprimand him. She screeched, “Weren’t you the one who schemed against her first? You abandoned her when she was so young, too! How could you bear to do that? How could you?!”

James saw Kate glaring at him through widened eyes, her face twisted and contorted like a scorned woman, and laughed in derision. “Hah! You’re a bigger b*tch than her!”