Chapter 327

"What do you mean by that, Evelyn?" Isabella clutched her stinging cheek, her eyes wide with disbelief.

She had been slapped?

How dare this orphaned country girl lay hands on her?

Evelyn's lips curled into a mocking smirk. "I don't need a reason to hit you."

Isabella trembled with rage.

Adrian's expression darkened as he recalled Vincent's phone call. "Evelyn, apologize to Isabella now."

"Apologize?" Evelyn scoffed. "You're not worth it."

The elevator doors dinged open.

As she moved to step inside, Adrian's towering frame blocked her path.

"Move," she said icily.

"What if I refuse?" He knew her stubbornness all too well.

Her eyes flashed. In a blur, her right leg swept toward his knee.

Thud—

Adrian crashed to the ground, caught off guard.

Without a backward glance, Evelyn strode into the elevator.

Isabella gaped in shock.

Cassandra shrieked, "How could she—"

Helping Adrian up, Isabella whimpered, "Adrian, you're just letting her walk away?"

He shook off her hand, his face stormy as he entered another elevator.

"Adrian!" Isabella called out indignantly.

Cassandra tugged her arm. "You know how proud he is. He must be humiliated..."

Isabella clenched her fists.

She could feel Adrian growing colder toward her.

Inside the hospital room...

The moment Evelyn left, Julian groaned in agony, clutching his head.

His mother wiped away tears.

The scandal about the Roscente family's illegitimate child had spread like wildfire.

She couldn't bring herself to tell her son.

"Julian, let me call the doctor—"

"No." He gritted his teeth. "Evelyn's medicine..."

"Absolutely not!" His mother panicked. "She's not a doctor! What if—"

"Mom!" Julian snapped his head up. "If it weren't for Evelyn that night, I'd be dead! Don't you get it? Someone's using our family to eliminate her!"

Without hesitation, he swallowed the bitter pill.

Warmth bloomed in his chest despite the acrid taste.

His mother shuddered suddenly.