Her Rebirth of Retribution novel Chapter 81

“Yelena, I was afraid of you and the Langleys, so I never defended myself against all the things you said about me to others. Now that everyone is around, let’s thrash things out now!”

Panic flashed in Yelena’s eyes, and the host of the day’s event had finally come over to see what was happening. When he saw Calista, Wyatt hesitated for a moment but pulled her aside anyway.

“Calista, today is an important day for the Langleys. Can you settle your personal matter privately?”

Calista pulled herself out of Wyatt’s grip and glared at him as she smiled coldly. “Settle it privately? My family is about to go bankrupt, why should I settle this privately? Do you know what your grandfather and father said to me just now? They said that if I dare to disobey Yelena, your family is going to bankrupt mine! What power your family wields! I don’t know if Yelena married into my family or my father married into hers! Mrs. Stafford, you’d better explain this now!”

Benedict’s expression darkened and forgot about trying to upkeep his image. He asked with an angry face, “They…they actually said that?!”

Wyatt looked a little guilty – he knew that his grandfather had called everyone to the back earlier over his aunt and uncle, and actually this had happened before but he never bothered himself about it.

In the past, Calista always came running out and crying and he had no idea what happened. His mother only told him that it was because Calista was disobedient and they had scolded her a little, but he never knew the actual situation was like this!

All the guests were waiting to watch a good show now. The Langleys were really flexing their muscles here, saying things like that. Usually daughters were married off into their husband’s family, and for them to control their daughter’s husband in their own house…what busybodies they were!

“How could that be? We…we would never say something like that!”

Yelena was starting to feel out of breath but she continued angrily, “You’ve hit your stepmother in front of so many people, you….you! You’ve thoroughly embarrassed the Staffords! And you still think you are in the right?!”

She tugged at Benedict and pleaded, “Benedict, say something…”

Benedict looked back at her coldly, and that cold glare made Yelena take her hand back in fright.

Calista chortled as she scanned the crowd and asked, “In the past, Yelena badmouthed me to other people and I quietly endured it. But today, I will endure it no longer! Today I want to ask everyone what you’ve heard from Yelena, and we’ll sort it out right now!”

One lady had a bone to pick with Yelena from long ago, so she pretended to be angry as she said, “You’re such an immature child! Yelena is so nice to you! She gives you fifty grand of allowance money, but only five grand to Quincy. Yet you still hit her!”

“That’s a good one,” Calista stared straight at Yelena, “Fifty grand. Did you give that to me in cash or by bank transfer?”

Yelena saw that all eyes were on her, Wyatt wasn’t helping her and the rest of the Langleys were still in the back annexe. She had no way to escape, so she trembled as she said, “Sometimes cash, sometimes transfer…”

Calista smiled again. “Then did you use your phone to make the transfer or your computer?”

Yelena couldn’t understand what Calista was trying to do, and because she was so nervous, she went along with Calista and said, “Sometimes my phone…”

“Ok, take your phone out now and check. If you can show that one of your recipients is my name and my bank account number, I’ll take it that you’ve transferred money to me before.”

“Interesting,” Calista looked back at Yelena. “Lying? What lies did I say? When, where and what? Besides you and Quincy, who else can prove it? I have a boyfriend? What’s his name? How old is he? What does he look like? How hilarious that I don’t know this myself!”

Yelena’s mind was spinning from the barrage of questions from Calista and she didn’t know how to reply at all.

She wanted to scream at Calista, but if she did, then her image would be in tatters! Where were the rest of the Langleys? And why wasn’t this stupid Wyatt doing anything to stop Calista?!

“And then? Anything else?”

Calista asked as if she had nothing to lose, as if her stepmother had pushed her over the edge and she was now afraid of nothing!

Among the crowd, someone said in a low voice, “Yelena said that you’re not your father’s biological daughter!” This was spoken by a voluptuous woman. “She said that your biological mother, Yvette Yeager, was in love with someone else but then suddenly had a shotgun wedding with your father, and for all you know, Yvette was pregnant with someone else’s child and because the father of the child didn’t want her, she decided to marry down to a Stafford.”

“What?!” Benedict glared angrily at Yelena. He had never thought that Yelena had said something like this – the Staffords had been disgraced such a long time ago!

“Hoho…” Calista laughed hollowly, and a cold glint flashed in her eyes. “Come to think of it, Dad has a negative blood type, right?”

She looked at Benedict and said, “Five years ago Dad met with a car accident and needed a blood transfusion very urgently. My younger sister was afraid of pain, so I was the one who donated blood to him. Mrs. Stafford, did you think many people have a negative blood type, or that other people are stupid? In the past I was very timid and I thought you would let me off if I listened to you. But to think that you’ve made me suffer at home, and even smeared my reputation outside of the house was just unbearable.”