Her Rebirth of Retribution novel Chapter 7

“Benedict, say something! Now Callie has grown up and doesn’t listen to me anymore. You talk to her – she was in the wrong, wasn’t she?”

Benedict took a while to think before finally opening his mouth, “Callie…it was wrong of you to make a big scene. Why didn’t you settle everything in private? It wouldn’t have made a difference if you could told Mrs. Fairchild all these things privately, right? Now I don’t know how others will see us!”

How will they see us? They’ll see right through us, thought Calista.

She felt like laughing, but her heart started pounding furiously. She had been given a second chance at life but now she had to sit with her enemies. It didn’t feel good at all, and all the feelings bottling inside her were going to explode anytime.

“Stop the car.”

At her command, the car came to an abrupt halt, causing Yelena to suddenly lurch forward in shock. She glared at the driver, then started her tirade against Calista.

“What now, I can’t even scold you when you do something wrong? It’s so hard being your stepmother – after spending so many years raising you, now you’ve grown up and want to rebel against me?”

Saying this, she looked bitterly at Benedict, as if she were the biggest victim.

“Look at your daughter, I can’t control her anymore. Normally she’s already disobedient, and now she’s rebelling. I’ve been so kind to her yet she treats me like an enemy…”

Benedict was also angered by the sudden brake earlier, and his anger was further fueled by what Yelena said, and became even more upset.

“Callie, you have been too disobedient, apologize to your mother now!”

Quincy saw that Calista’s face went all white, so she decided to add fuel to the fire. “Daddy, don’t be angry with Callie, maybe she couldn’t control her temper because she was frightened by those bad guys.”

“So it’s ok to take it out on family members?”

Benedict looked straight at Calista, “Callie, is this how I taught you?”

Family?

Calista finally cracked a small smile – her father was used to being biased, and it was a hard habit to kick. But surely it was obvious who was the bullying one.

The pounding in her heart was getting stronger and stronger, and Calista was about to burst!

She tried her best to remain calm and said, “Dad, you guys can go home first, I have matters to attend to.”

Yelena got even angrier as she heard Calista try to brush away the topic.

“Are you turning a deaf ear to your father’s words? Besides, it’s so late now – what sort of proper matters could you be attending to?” Her words seemed to imply that Calista was going to engage in indecent behavior.

A fire suddenly blazed in Calista’s eyes. The pounding in her heart reached its climax, and she had a murderous look on her face, but it was covered by her thick fringe and her lowered head.

In the past she was never like this, preferring to suffer in silence, cowering in fear of her stepmother. Even if she was maligned in public, she would never have dared to fight back or try to clear her name, resulting in that useless personality of hers, and that’s why she died in such a terrible way.

But now when she heard Yelena’s voice, she only felt the fire in her heart rising and she was ready to tear her stepmother’s mouth off anytime!

“Mrs. Stafford!”

She suddenly called out in a high voice, shooting a look so cold that could freeze one instantly.

“I shouldn’t have?” Calista was so angry that she scoffed. Unable to contain her anger any longer, she decided not to contain it anymore.

“Then let me ask you in return, my lovely younger sister, what was the first thing you said when you saw me? You asked if someone got too friendly with me? There wasn’t just one statement – every statement of yours after that was obviously trying to smear me! You still have the gall to say that it wasn’t on purpose? Do you think everyone else is blind? You created this scene, I exposed your evil intentions and this is STILL MY FAULT?”

Calista ranted on without mercy. Quincy was so shocked she couldn’t even cry, and her face turned a whiter shade of pale.

“Callie!” Benedict could also see that there was definitely something very wrong with his elder daughter, and it wasn’t a matter of who was right or wrong anymore – she must have been extremely traumatized, and probably needed a psychiatrist now.

Calista laughed coldly, “Either send me to Grandma’s, or I’ll take a cab there myself.”

Quincy froze for a while, then something clicked in her brain, and she asked, “Callie, it’s so late, why do you want to go over to Grandma’s? Even if you’re angry with me saying the wrong thing, you should still go home!”

Calista merely laughed at this, and the meaningful look in her eyes made Quincy shudder.

Both Grandpa and Grandma had died many years back, but they left behind a house and a safe. There were many valuable things in the safe, but they had left everything to Calista alone.

Calista kept a close eye on the safe, and the key was the ear stud on her right ear, and carried it with her all the time.

Quincy’s original plan was to ruin Calista’s reputation tonight, then she would have a chance to get the key from her and open the safe at Grandma’s.

There was once she secretly went to their grandparent’s house when Calista wasn’t around and saw that the safe was very special – if you tried to open it by force, it would automatically self-destruct, so she gave up the idea of trying.

But she also realized that this seemingly useless sister of hers had excellent research in medicine! One look at the various data on the table told her that this research had incredible value. It was a pity that Calista came back earlier than expected, and she wasn’t able to steal the data.