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Stella was still in some shock. Even wild beasts like tigers would never eat their own children, what
more Guinevere, who was willing to go that far just to frame her.
She frowned and looked at the old couple.
“Since you’re so adamant that she’s innocent,” she told them, “then you should help her by finding the
evidence to prove she is. If you find no evidence, then it must really mean that she committed the
murder. I don’t understand why you’re wasting your time trying to distort the truth.”
“No!” Mrs. Cohen insisted as she stepped forward, tearfully looking at Stella. “It can’t be true! You’re a
mother too. Surely you’d understand that no mother would be so crazy as to kill her own child! I’m
convinced there must be some misunderstanding!”
She almost blurted out that it was all because Weston Ford was taking revenge on Guinevere.
Mr. Cohen, himself looking decades older after only three years, hunched over, and his eyes were red
and bloodshot, but unlike Mrs. Cohen, he managed to stop himself from shedding tears.
“My wife and I are both very old,” he said, “and we came
here to beg you… please spare Guinevere’s life…”
“Weston Ford is clearly doing all this for you,” Mrs. Cohen added. “Gwen has suffered enough now, so
why can’t you let go of her?” 1
They never thought that Stella Sealey-the woman that Guinevere hated so much that she was willing to
kill her own son to frame her, the woman that they thought had committed suicide in prison–was now
standing before. them, safe and alive… But the better this woman’s life was, the more of a mockery it became to Guinevere’s present
condition.
“You have everything now. Weston Ford would do anything for you! Please just spare Gwen’s life! I beg
of you! Can’t you show a little mercy on her?”
“A little mercy?” Stella scoffed when she heard the word. “Why didn’t you ask your own daughter that
question. back then? You know what she’s done to me all these years, yet you never stopped her or did
anything about it. But perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised…”
Stella glanced at them and added, “With parents like you, it’s only to be expected that your daughter
would turn out this way. Even after all that she’s done, she remains remorseless and unrepentant.”
“But she’s been punished enough now! She’s been locked up in that sanitarium for three years! What
more do you want?”
“You think that’s enough punishment for what she did?!” Stella snapped, her tone audibly raising by a
few notches. “Putting aside the fact that she killed her own son, she still owes me a life! She used her
son to frame me, and if I hadn’t been lucky, I would’ve died because of her! She’s been only locked up
for three years, yet you’re already begging me to let her go? You think that’s enough punishment? You
think that’s justice? Don’t be ridiculous!”
As the Cohens tried to argue with her, Jason could no longer keep quiet and stand aside without
interfering. He walked over to them and said, “Stop wasting your time begging her. Why don’t you go to
Warren Ford instead? It’s been so many years. You know what’s happened between her and your
family, so what’s the use of staying here and begging for her help?”
Jason was Warren Ford’s good friend. He was aware of Warren’s strained relationship with Stella, but
for some reason, he still liked Stella despite all that. Still, he was stuck in the middle of them both, so he thought it best not to interfere. All those years, he
had stood aside and turned a blind eye to the bleak situation that Stella was trapped in, but he could no
longer watch quietly without helping her today.
“I just can’t bear to see you bullying a young woman like this!” he exclaimed.
The Cohens looked at each other. They paid no attention to anything else Jason said. All they focused
on was his suggestion for them to go to Warren Ford instead.
Perhaps that might work…
After all, Warren Ford had been on their side back then. Seeing how close the Cohen family was with
him, perhaps they might be able to persuade him to help them.
Perhaps they might even be able to persuade him to spare Guinevere’s life.
Jason shook his head as he watched the Cohens leave.
“No wonder the Cohen family fell so quickly from grace, he commented. “They really are brainless
idiots…”