Chapter 78

78. REAL PS YCHO

CELINE’S POV

What’s Brylee’s drama again?

“My driver has already gone back home, so I’ll go to school with them

Brylee continued while she was moving around the vehicle and standing at the side of the driver’s seat, and then talked to the middle- aged driver. “Would you come down now? I’m going to drive…”

“What?” Jake asked, frowning. “Are you sure, Brylee…?”

“Yeah… I’m—”

“No!” Jake gave a little shake of the head and then motioned for the driver to exit the vehicle. “I’m taking over…” he announced as he hopped inside the car and strapped himself to the seatbelt. “Celine… could you take a seat here next to me?”

“Oh my G od! I feel so dizzy…” On the spur of the moment, Cynthia said, who was already seated in the back while she was unstrapping the seatbelt from her body. “Celine, I was wondering if it would be all right if I took a seat up front…”

I raised a brow, but eventually nodded when I read what was going through her mind. “By all means, Cynthia…”

Cynthia’s mood improved by leaps and bounds.

“Brylee… come on! Didn’t you miss your sister? You two can have a good catch-up!” she beamed, opening the door and immediately laying claim to the passenger seat next to Jake.

Seeing this, Brylee smiled and got in next to me. “Alright, let’s go!”

Jake smiled as he looked at me in the rearview mirror, before he

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started the engine.

“Did you sleep well last night, Celine…?” Brylee asked, wearing a fake grin, which of course I recognized easily.

However… I didn’t intend to expose her.

“I had a beautiful sleep last night, Brylee…” I smiled as I leaned my back against the seat, closing my eyes to show that I was imagining Cynthia’s bed. “Cynthia’s bed is very soft, so much more comfortable than my hard bed…”

I heard someone snort, and then she laughed, making me open my eyes. “Do you feel that the bed at home is hard? Don’t worry, I’ll tell Dad to change your bed to a softer one, just for you to make yourself more comfortable…”

“Thank you, Brylee…” I said as I gazed out the window. I didn’t want to continue the act with her anymore because if I did, I could wind up hurting her by telling the truth about how her fiance acted towards me.

“What about you, Celine?” I was pulled out of my reverie when I heard Jake speak from the driver’s seat. “Are you going to transfer school…?

“I don’t know yet…” I responded shortly. Even now, I have no idea how to proceed with my academic pursuits. It’s been a week since I last attended my class at the university.

“You know, Celine… I think you’re too young to teach Cynthia…” A sudden interruption came from Brylee. “What Mr. Anderson said the other day was nothing more than a joke; how in the world could you possibly take what he said seriously? Just one night is enough. Don’t make yourself into the butt of some joke…”

While Brylee was speaking with me, she appeared to be putting on an act of modesty.

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“The butt of some joke?” I asked. Those were the most underhanded words imaginable.

“I second the motion!” Cynthia chimed in as she snapped her head to look at us. “Brylee is absolutely right… You’d better go back home and leave me, alone!”

“Okay…” I gave a little shrug of the shoulders as I looked at Brylee. You should tell dad to talk to Mr. Anderson. If he allows me to leave, then everything will be taken care of. I’m going to go back to the house…”

”

My answer was very concise. I didn’t have to stay or go back to the

Anderson villa.

After hearing this… Brylee’s facial expression went from being stern to smiling, and she eventually became very quiet.

We arrived at Cynthia and Brylee’s school shortly after, and as soon as we did… the three of us climbed out of the car and waved good to Jake, who was looking at me in particular the entire time.

“Stop following me! You’re such an eyesore…” Cynthia rolled her eye and took the lead to enter the gate of the school.

“Celine, are you really going to be so stubborn?” Brylee rasped as she walked up to follow Cynthia. “She said, stop following her!”

I snorted and stepped forward, ignoring the two spoiled brat women. You are the polite one, while I am unreasonable. Hasn’t this always been the way? And now you say that I am being stubborn?”

I was laughing aloud but my eyes were full of sarcasm.

“There’s always some sort of give and take involved in everything. It’s been said that “There’s no such thing as a free lunch…” I added as I walked past her, but she levelled up my pace.

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“What do you mean by that?” she frowned. “Go against dad? Since you spent the night in Anderson’s villa, are you seriously starting to believe that you are above the law?”

There were students milling about the school grounds at an ungodly hour, and I could see the amusement in their eyes as they watched me converse with my sister. It appeared as though it were only the first time that they had seen a pair of identical twins conversing in the school’s hallway.

“What are you so afraid of?” I inquired while glaring at Brylee with a satirical expression on my face. “Are you afraid that I will reveal the truth that you were the woman in the video with that model, or are you afraid that I will spill the secret that we switched identities on that night?”

The color left Brylee’s face all of a sudden, and she glanced sideways, as if checking to see if anyone had heard us. “What in the world are you talking about with that nonsense?”

“Nonsense?” I let out a loud snort. “Why are you so adamant ab me going back to your house if you believe that what I’m saying complete nonsense?”

“I’m afraid that you will bring disgrace upon the Anderson family just as you have brought it upon ours!”

“Really?” I laughed. “Is it me who brought disgrace to the Lauren family or you? and the previous incidents have already made your family lose face. How much worse could it possibly get?”

She came to a stop in the middle of her walk and glared at me.

“And one more thing…” I added. “Are you afraid that I will bring disgrace to the Anderson family or you’re afraid of me?”

“Afraid of you?” she sneered. “Why should I?”

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“Because I took your fiance’s virginity…” I declared, and her nose flared up in anger. “Don’t you think it’s worth something…?”

Brylee’s face transitioned from fury to blanching to livid. “Are you sure you want to get into a fight with me?”

At that very instant… her eyes were as icy as a black widow spider waiting to pounce on its victim. Because I was silent… she interpreted that as a confirmation of what I had already decided.

“Ha!” Brylee chuckled and turned to walk away, but before she left me, she said… “I heard that you went to the cemetery yesterday!”

What? How did she know about it?

“That cemetery is indeed a good place. I assume your twenty- thousand dollars is almost spent…” my eyes widened and she smirked. “If you provoke me once more… I will turn your mother’s tomb upside down!”

Brylee was laughing uproariously, her eyes looked like those of a devil, and I stared at him in such disbelief that I felt as though looking at a ghost. “Do you even hear yourself, Brylee?”

“I know very well that if you play tricks on me, I wouldn’t allow her peace even after death!” she laughed even louder and started to walk

away.

But I didn’t give her the chance to move an inch as I grabbed her by the shoulder and brought her to a halt. Then, when she turned around to look at me, I slapped her hard across the face.

The students who were surrounding us didn’t waste any time in pulling out their phones and immediately began taking pictures and videos of us.

“She’s your mother, too!” I yelled at the top of my lungs, and my voice shook with rage. “Brylee… how much of a ps ycho could you possibly

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To my utter astonishment, she laughed… and as if nothing had

happened, she tucked her hair behind her ear. “Do you believe that she would still be alive if I had treated her as if she were my mother?”

My eyes were full of shock as I glared at her.

“I might as well tell you that not only will I not be saddened by her death… but also that I felt happy because she was the source of the shame of my life!” Brylee’s cold words slashed my heart.

“Shame in your life?” The words caused my heart to drop like a rock into an ice cave, and I was unable to breathe because the pain was so intense. I observed that Brylee was on guard against the other students in the hallway; however… she maintained a pleasant smile despite the fact that her eyes were unusually hostile.

“Do not get on my nerves. Do you hear me?” she warned. “You should

know what to do now!”

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned on her heels and was about to leave when I called her again.

“Brylee…”

She turned around and looked at me with a spit-it-out expression.

“After school… you’ll go to the Anderson family with me, and I will tell Sebastian’s father to let me go home…” I said, my tone was rare and gentle.

“That’s my girl!” Brylee even clapped her hands in happiness. “At least you had the good grace to make the most of the opportunity…”

stood there and watched as she walked away from me before I dashed off to the ladies’ room, and I suddenly felt like it was freezing. I couldn’t help but clench my fists in the cold, my sharp nails digging into my flesh.

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After what seemed like an unimaginably long period of time, I finally looked up with a thirst for blood in my eyes.

If Brylee wanted to see what a real ps ycho looked like, then I would be more than willing to show her how deep someone’s pain could go.