Through the crack in the door, Derrick saw the woman inside. It was Gloria, the person he had been looking for.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
Harry came over and asked, "Mr. Fisher, why don't you go inside?"
Suddenly, Derrick used his hand to cover Harry's mouth with great strength. Harry looked up and saw Derrick's bloodshot eyes with killing intent.
The next second, he followed Derrick's gaze and looked inside as well.
Harry's eyes widened instantly. He was stunned.
He thought, 'Gloria? Why is she here?
What is she doing?
I feel so humiliated and furious!
I can barely lift my head!
Gloria! How can you be so cheap?'
Through the crack of the door, both Derrick and Harry saw the familiar figure. She was kneeling humbly on the ground and giving a middle-aged man a foot massage.
Derrick saw the others inside. Their faces were so familiar. When he saw them grinning and laughing at Gloria wildly, he suddenly realized something, and instantly, he wanted to kill them. He thought, 'You assholes! You are bullying Gloria!'
Derrick felt the urge to beat them up. He raised his hand and was ready to push the door. Yet in the next second, his hand froze in the air.
"Gloria, you used to be the most dazzling back then. You were the legendary Miss Carter. I never saw this day coming. You can really go all out for the sake of money, right? Dignity means nothing to you," someone in the room said, insulting Gloria.
Gloria turned a deaf ear. She was focused on what she was doing. She thought, 'I don't need to argue at all. Would anyone believe me if I said I wasn't after the money?
If the answer was affirmative, no one would have said those words in the first place.
Why should I care what people think of me?
I was subjected to the most shameless accusations three years ago. Gabrielle smeared me in a way no one could compare.'
Audrey had been paying attention to the movement at the door from the beginning. She left the door open deliberately. Her eyes flickered when she saw the shadow under the light out of the corner of her eye through the crack.
Audrey smiled and said, "Gloria, I never expected you to become like this. You used to be so glorious back then. And now, you are like a completely different person. Well, you deserve it. After all, your best friend died because of you, and you did all that for a man. No one was more merciless than you. You paid off rogues to rape Gabrielle. But you never thought Gabrielle would kill herself. If Gabrielle weren't dead, you would have gotten your way. Gloria, you are so scheming and disgusting!"
Derrick was at the door with his hand in midair. His mind was blank. He thought, 'What did I just hear?
What is Audrey talking about? I don't understand.
Gloria plotted against her best friend and made her kill herself?
That's impossible!
That's not the Gloria I know!'
"Gloria, I'm sure your beloved Patrick would want to let you rot in jail after Gabrielle died, right? Gloria, you are both hateful and pathetic. You went through all the trouble, yet in the end, you ended up with nothing." Audrey moved away so that the glaring box of bills could be seen clearly by the people outside the door.
She continued, "Back then, money meant nothing to you. And now? You are willing to stoop to please an old man for this box of money. Gloria, I despise you."
Derrick found it hard to breathe.
He thought, 'This isn't real!
This is not the Gloria I know!'
Yet he couldn't look away from the box full of bills whatsoever.
He gritted his teeth and pushed the door hard.
Standing at the door, Derrick shouted, "I don't believe it!"
His gaze was glued to Gloria stubbornly.
When Gloria saw Derrick barge in, she instantly realized what today was about.
Audrey said earlier that someone asked her to be here today. As for who that someone was, Gloria didn't care.
She didn't look at Derrick. Instead, she looked at Audrey. Audrey felt Gloria's gaze instantly. As she turned her head, she didn't see the defeated and distressed expression that she expected to see on Gloria's face. On the contrary, Gloria's eyes were crystal-clear and calm. It seemed that Gloria saw everything through.
Audrey felt flustered. Under the gaze of Gloria, she suddenly felt like she was three years back when she faced Gloria.
At that time, no matter whether she confronted Gloria directly or secretly plotted against Gloria, Gloria always looked at her sagely.
Gloria always made her feel that all her tricks were nothing for Gloria. Yet that was three years ago.
Back then, Gloria was so high and mighty.
And now?
Derrick clenched his fists and said, "I don't believe what you just said. She paid off rogues? Gloria is an ordinary rogue herself. She doesn't have that kind of money to do such a thing."
Audrey was very mad at Gloria because she realized that even now, Derrick was still defending Gloria.
Audrey was overwhelmed by the jealousy in her heart. She sneered and said, "Mr. Fisher, you're so funny. Isn't Mr. Carter, Gloria's brother, standing right next to you? Well, Mr. Fisher, I don't blame you. You didn't live in Gabbs, and you didn't go to the werewolf school in Gabbs. It makes sense that you know none of this."
Audrey looked at Derrick and said, "The name of the ordinary rogue you speak of is Gloria Carter. Three years ago, she was still the daughter of the Alpha of the Silver Spring Pack. As for Patrick, she framed her best friend, who couldn't take it and committed suicide later. All the werewolves in Gabbs know about this. The funniest part is that the man she loved put her in prison himself."
Derrick looked at Harry, his eyes full of doubts. "Is it true?"
Harry didn't say anything and kept silent.
Derrick felt shocked.
He then looked at Gloria. "Is what she says true?"
Gloria looked at Derrick through the crowd. She saw every bit of his astonishment and confusion.