---- Chapter 229 "What are you even saying?" Elias frowned and, barely catching his breath, began criticizing her without giving her a chance to speak. "You're also a Sanders. Why do you insist on cutting ties with Jenna and your parents?" Wendy let out a cold snort. You know exactly what I'm. saying. 1 don't believe that after what happened to me, you didn't hear about them asking the doctor to issue a death certificate before I was even dead.

"Tt was just so they could collect the insurance money. Afterward, they had the nerve to say it was for my own good. "T don't believe for a second that you were unaware of Jenna playing house at the Frank residence , and I don't believe you ever really believed me." She took a few ragged breaths after saying all of that. Elias was stunned, staring at her as his brow furrowed deeper. "'No... Wendy, you're being unreasonable. That's not what happened at all." "Enough!

Don't say another word!" Wendy cut him off sharply. "I don't care if other people don't believe me. But you? You saw with your own eyes how my parents treated me differently. Yet, you're still here telling me I'm the one being unreasonable?" "Wendy, just listen to me..."' Elias panicked upon seeing her ---- eyes become red-rimmed. When had she ever gotten this emotional? She was so emotional that she could cry at any moment. "I told you-I wouldn't care if you hadn't come to visit me.

But why did you come here wrapped in the Sanders family's false concern, with the exact flowers I despise the most, and claim that you're here to visit me?" She didn't even have to think twice to know that it was Jenna who had suggested Elias bring lilies. "Thate lilies. Did you not know that?" Wendy no longer wanted to contain her emotions and keep the pain bottled up. "Jenna's the one who likes lilies.

Did you also forget about that?" In the garden of the Sanders residence, there had once been a small patch of lilies. Wendy had never really liked flowers, but she wouldn't go out of her way to destroy them either. As kids, Jenna would pick flowers , then blame Wendy for it, and Mary would scold her harshly. It was only Elias who had told the truth back then, speaking up for Wendy. But what good did it do?

When Mary found out that Jenna had been the one to pick them, she didn't scold her at all. ---- She even praised Jenna for learning to arrange flowers at such a young age. Did Elias really not know that Wendy hated lilies? Did he not know that just seeing them would remind her of the injustice she suffered? "Did you really forget, or did you never bother remembering in the first place?" Wendy gave a bitter smile. "I was never that important to you, huh?

So don't pretend like you care now." The stunned Elias stared at her pale face, feeling a tidal wave of guilt threatening to drown him. He abruptly shoved the bouquet into the trash can and frantically said, "No, it's not like that. I just forgot..." No amount of explaining could help him now, because a mistake would always be a mistake. Wendy looked away, turning to look out the window. "You don't have to worry, though. I'm not blaming you, because that'd be pointless.

"My disappointment doesn't affect you anyway, and I certainly won't go back to the Sanders residence to interfere with you getting close to that family of three." 'The pain was hers alone. Nevertheless, she had already decided to let all that pain and sadness go, along with her relationship with Elias. ---- Elias quickly strode forward. Half-kneeling beside her, he grabbed her hand. "Wendy, please just listen to me.

It's not what you think." Wendy didn't even want to look at him, merely shutting her eyes tightly. "Stop. I don't want to hear it anymore." Suddenly, a cold voice came from the doorway. "Elias, are you deaf? Didn't you hear her tell you to shut up?" Approaching them, James grabbed Elias and yanked him away. Opening her eyes, Wendy looked at James in shock. "You-" Before she could finish, James' fist had already landed on Elias "face. Wendy's face twitched. Watching the two scuffle, she felt exasperated and was utterly done with them.