The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 1754

Serena sobbed uncontrollably, "I really had no idea they were my real parents, and | had no clue what they've been up to all these

years, working in secret for the Collins family. I've made a terrible mistake, and | admit, when Arabella cback home, | was

scared and jealous. | did things that are unforgivable. Mom, | can't even begin to hope for your forgiveness. Just lethave it. |

don't deserve to live in this world anymore."

"You think I'm going to let you live??"

Louisa's fury drained the color from Serena's face, sending chills down her spine.

Her mother, once so indulgent and doting, now looked as if she truly wanted her dead.

Those eyes were filled with a murderous rage and intense loathing.

Serena was genuinely terrified, her mind a blank slate and her body trembling as she looked up at her mother.

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"You wanted Bella to beg you, didn't you? You wanted her to bow her head to you ten times?" Louisa's anger rose uncontrollably,

"You want to live? Then beg for it—properly."

Panicked and with tears streaming down her face, Serena was already kneeling on shattered glass, but her mother still wasn't

ready to let her off the hook. Worse, she was being forced to bow her head in apology.

She knew her mother was venting for Arabella, but at that moment, she had no other choice.

"I'm sorry." Serena's tears fell as she sobbed, bowing her head to her mother.

Her pale forehead hit the ground, littered with broken glass, and instantly, several spots of blood appeared.

"I've been ungrateful for the years of care from mom and dad. I've been worse than a beast." Serena cried as she continued, "I've

been deluded, I'm sorry for all the hurt I've caused my sister, sorry to the entire Collins family, | was wrong, terribly wrong, for

doing something so heartless."

Blood was now streaming from her forehead, the droplets merging and growing larger before streaking down her face.

The beads of blood on her once fair cheeks were a shocking sight.

Looking up through tear-filled eyes, Serena spoke with profound regret, "Mom, | know, nothing | say now can make up for the harm

I've caused to my sister, for the wounds in your hearts, I've let you down."

Louisa's tears fell in grief and anger, her heart felt as though it was being carved with a thousand knives, shaking her very being.

They had been so blind to have doted on her as their own daughter.

"If it weren't for the Collins family, what sort of life do you think your family of three would be living? Have you ever thought about

that?" Kenneth asked bitterly.

Serena saw in her once-kind father's eyes a mixture of rage and tears.

Even the servants in the living room looked at her with disdain, revulsion, disgust.

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It was only then that Serena realized that without the Collins family, she and her birth parents would likely be living an ordinary

life, with her parents working nine-to-five jobs to make ends meet.

She would have attended a regular school, lived in an average house, without dozens of servants to wait on her, no luxury cars to

drive her, no expensive skincare products or pretty dresses every day.

Nor would she have had the chance to mingle with the ladies, or to acquaint herself with the high society, meeting successful

people like Romeo.

She might just have ended up like an average college graduate, finding a stable job, marrying an utterly unremarkable man, and

continuing to lead an ordinary life.

It was the Collins family that had surrounded her with luxury, giving her endless dignity and respect.

It was the Collins family that had afforded her a life of privilege and ease.