Chapter 303: Face Slap! Countdown to Shannon Everett’s Imprisonment

Chapter 303: Chapter 303: Face Slap! Countdown to Shannon Everett’s Imprisonment

Morgan Everett lunged at Shannon, completely enraged. Even though his hands were handcuffed, he managed to forcefully slap her across the face. "You animal! You absolute animal!"

"Ah!" Shannon shrieked. Her cheek instantly swelled, and a trickle of bright red blood seeped from the corner of her mouth. Did they hear what she just said?

Sheila Whitaker rushed over and grabbed Shannon by the hair. Her eyes were filled with not just fury, but also profound disappointment and bitter hatred. "You ungrateful wretch! I raised you for nothing! For nothing!"

What did she mean it had nothing to do with her if she died in prison? How could she say such a horrific thing? Sheila’s face was etched with horror. The daughter she had doted on so much was more cold-blooded than a monster! No, Shannon was no longer her daughter!

"Mom, what I just said... I didn’t mean any of it! It was Sienna! She deliberately led me on!" Shannon hastily explained, shifting all the blame onto Sienna.

"Shut up! You’re still lying!" Sheila’s lips trembled with anger as she exposed Shannon’s deceit on the spot. "Do you think we’re that easy to fool? From the moment you walked into this room, we’ve known your every move! We know you secretly sold your shares in the Everett family’s business, and we know you said you hoped we’d stay in prison forever. We know everything!"

Shannon’s heart plummeted, and her breath hitched in terror. They knew everything... Morgan and Sheila even knew about the shares... Was there a security camera in this room? Something recording her?

Shannon immediately looked around and, sure enough, spotted a tiny, sophisticated camera tucked in the corner. Initially unaware that Sienna was the major shareholder behind the Starlight Consortium, she hadn’t had her guard up. She never imagined that from the moment she stepped inside, everything was being recorded!

Shannon’s hands clenched into tight fists. She glared at Sienna with pure hatred and roared hysterically, "Sienna! It was you! You set this up!"

That bitch! What an absolute bitch!

"I’m going to kill you!" Shannon shrieked and tried to charge at Sienna, but Sheila blocked her without hesitation, and Morgan’s hand swung out to slap her again.

Seeing the three of them grappling in a messy, chaotic brawl, Julian Forrester frowned. He walked over, took Sienna’s hand to pull her out of the way, and instinctively positioned himself protectively in front of her.

Keith Sterling stood off to the side, practically itching to wave a little flag and cheer them on. Fight! Fight! That wasn’t enough! They needed to hit harder!

Evan Shelby watched the drama unfold with keen interest.

Shannon’s hair was pulled into a tangled mess, her cheek was swollen from the blows, and her clothes were stained with dirt. Looking completely disheveled and unable to take it any longer, she shoved the weakened Sheila away.

With a heavy THUD, Sheila crashed to the floor. She froze for a moment before a sharp, needle-like pain pierced her heart. Back then, to help clear Shannon’s name, she had falsely accused Sienna of pushing her own biological mother to the ground. Now, she had actually been pushed. And the one who pushed her was none other than Shannon—the daughter she had constantly defended and favored... How incredibly ironic!

Shannon didn’t even try to help her up. Turning a blind eye to the woman on the floor, she screamed like a madwoman.

"Morgan! Sheila! What gives you the right to hit me? Are you saying you did nothing wrong?

"I’m the one who grew up in the Everett family! I’m the eldest daughter of the Everett family! Why did you have to bring Sienna back? Why did you let her steal what rightfully belongs to me?"

Sheila looked at her in sheer disbelief, almost doubting her own ears. "What are you talking about? What do you mean ’steal what rightfully belongs to you’? We adopted you from an orphanage! We’ve already given you more than enough! Everything you have was supposed to be Sienna’s in the first place! How can you be so greedy?"

"Adopted?" Tearing off her mask of hypocrisy, Shannon let out a venomous sneer. "Don’t make it sound so noble! You only took me in because your biological daughter went missing and you had nowhere to put your grief! You just wanted a substitute!"

"Even so, we gave you an excellent life! We never mistreated you!" Sheila retorted indignantly.

"If that’s true, then why did you bring Sienna back? Everything in the Everett family should have been mine! Why did you have to bring in someone else to compete with me?"

"You..." Hearing her completely twist the truth, Sheila was so stunned she could barely speak. She glared at her angrily. "After Sienna returned to the Everett family, she yielded to you in every way! When did she ever compete with you? It was you who bullied her behind our backs and fought her for everything!"

"Heh, that’s because she’s useless!" Shannon wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, looking completely deranged.

Sheila stared at Shannon. The girl before her felt like a total stranger, as if she had never truly known her at all. Was this her true nature?

Suddenly making up her mind, Sheila scrambled up from the floor and gritted her teeth. "Shannon, it was your idea to kidnap Isabelle Sutton! You were the mastermind! I’m going to turn you over to the police!"

Hearing this, Shannon instantly panicked. All her previous arrogance and hostility vanished into thin air. No! She didn’t want to go to prison!

Morgan, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up in a calm tone. "Sheila, let it go. We adopted Shannon from the orphanage to have somewhere to channel the longing we felt for our daughter... Let’s not drag Shannon into this kidnapping mess. Just consider it a token of gratitude for her keeping us company in our daughter’s place when she was little..."

Sheila looked at him in total bewilderment. "Morgan, how can you think that way? We gave Shannon the absolute best, and we owe her nothing! Yet she repaid us with ingratitude and framed Sienna over and over again! We absolutely cannot let her off the hook!"

"Sheila, you’re just angry right now. Calm down."

"Calm down? How am I supposed to calm down? Huh? Would you rather go to prison with me just to keep Shannon innocent?" Sheila demanded, her eyes red with unshed tears.

Morgan opened his mouth as if to say something, but ultimately held his tongue.

Keith watched on in sheer disbelief, having never heard such a ridiculous proposal. "Holy crap, he knows exactly what Shannon is like, and he’s still protecting her! Tsk, what an incredibly clueless fool!"

Evan was equally speechless. Was Morgan braindead? Just moments ago, he had been angry enough to slap Shannon, so why was his heart bleeding for her now?

Sienna frowned slightly. Given Morgan’s personality, he definitely wouldn’t protect Shannon after finding out what she had done, yet now...

Sheila clenched her jaw and stared at Morgan. "I don’t care what you’re thinking. Regardless, I am going to expose Shannon as the mastermind! It was her idea to kidnap Isabelle, and she orchestrated the whole thing!"

"Sheila, you..."

Morgan barely managed to utter those two words before a sudden KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK on the door interrupted him.

An assistant walked in. Taking in the mess in the room, he relied on his professional training and refrained from asking questions. Instead, he methodically reported to Felicity Thorne, "Manager Thorne, Mason Everett from Everett Corporation is here. He says he knows Shannon is inside and needs to confront her about something."

Confront her? Hearing this, Felicity turned to Sienna, silently asking for her instruction.

Sienna thought for a moment before giving a slight nod. "Let him in."

A moment later, Mason, Miles, Wyatt, Lucas, and Dustin all walked into the room.

Seeing Sienna and Julian in the room, the five men froze in unison. Then, a look of sheer, undeniable joy erupted in their eyes.