Charlotte swatted Shirley's hand away roughly, she glared with her reddened eyes, "There will come a time when demons like you will suffer! You'll see what happens to you," Charlotte hissed sharply.
Hearing how Charlotte threatened her, Shirley grinned widely, then her hand that Charlotte had swatted away earlier moved quickly to grab Charlotte's jaw.
"I'm not afraid of threats from a little girl like you. Fight me when you can get away from your mum's help," Shirley whispered right in Charlotte's ear.
With that whisper Charlotte could feel goosebumps all over her body, she knew that the risk she would take when she faced Shirley would be like this. With all her might Charlotte restrained herself from shaking with fear.
Shirley grunted dismissively as she felt Charlotte's fear in her hands, she no longer wanted to play with her.
Shirley mercilessly slammed Charlotte's jaw in her grip, making her half-sister's face almost hit the hard floor.
"Get out of here right now before I finish you," Shirley said then coldly shooed Charlotte away.
Honestly, Shirley didn't have time to deal with Charlotte's nonsensical chatter, there were still many things she had to take care of at the moment.
With the help of her maid, Charlotte was finally able to stand up with difficulty, she then pointed angrily at Shirley, "I won't let you get away with this!" she screeched before running away from Shirley's room.
Shirley waved her hand for Ivy to clean up the mess Charlotte had made in her room, while she returned to the sofa and started writing a letter to her brother. Shirley hoped that this time Joseph would write back.
. . .
At first Shirley didn't think much about what Charlotte had done earlier, but now she had to retract her words because right now Rosemary called her alone to the basement of their mansion.
Knowing how much Rosemary hated her, Shirley also felt a bad feeling this time, who knows what Rosemary had prepared for her this time.
"I knew that damn Charlotte would snitch on her mum," Shirley muttered as she clenched her fists, thinking her earlier provocation wouldn't make Charlotte snitch on Rosemary.
As Shirley finished descending the last flight of stairs and reached the basement, the first thing she realised was how dark it was, with only small candles hanging on the walls. In fact, the moment Shirley set foot in there, she could feel how damp and gloomy it was.
"It turns out you came here anyway," Rosemary said from behind Shirley's body.
Shirley who was shocked when she heard that voice almost fell over, she really had no idea that Rosemary was already there waiting for her arrival.
Still shocked by what happened Shirley just looked at Rosemary coldly, she didn't say anything to her.
"Follow me," Rosemary said again.
This time Rosemary turned around and stepped deeper into the basement area. Meanwhile, Shirley also began to follow Rosemary's footsteps, although she was actually too lazy to do this.
Shirley's mind was not focused on following Rosemary, only her feet kept following where Rosemary went, while her mind flew to other problems. Until finally Shirley almost bumped into Rosemary's back who stopped suddenly.
"Are we there yet, madam?" Shirley tilted her head in confusion.
Without saying anything Rosemary opened the door in front of them, then moved aside and left Shirley standing in front of the open door.
At first, Shirley was confused by what Rosemary was doing at the moment, so she tried to peek into the room and found that there was nothing special in the room.
Shirley stepped closer out of curiosity, then unexpectedly Rosemary began to move and push Shirley into the room.
And this time Shirley felt like deja vu when she was already in this room. Shirley also looked back to see where Rosemary was.
"What are you doing?!" Shirley wanted to move forward and get out of the room.
But her movement was stopped by Rosemary who also entered the room and closed the door behind her. Seeing that for a moment Shirley could be relieved that Rosemary had also entered the room.
However, Shirley's thoughts were very wrong because at this moment she could see Rosemary had pulled out a whip that looked very terrible in Shirley's eyes.
"You're not trying to hurt me are you, madam?" Actually, Shirley's words were more about reassuring herself.
Because Shirley could feel Rosemary getting closer to her with a sinister grin on her cold face.
"Only now are you scared, Shirley? Didn't you think of this when you hurt Charlotte?!" Rosemary let out her voice as she slapped Shirley hard.
In the quiet room Shirley could clearly hear the echoing sound of Rosemary's slap on her cheek, she realised that Rosemary was really taking out her anger on her this time.
Shirley's body took a few steps back after being hit by the deadly slap, when she looked up and intended to speak out, again her mouth was silenced with another slap from Rosemary.
"Have you now remembered the consequences of disturbing me in this house?" Rosemary pulled Shirley's hair back so she could look at her.
The corner of Shirley's mouth was already bleeding from the previous slap, her hair was already a mess, unexpectedly Shirley's eyes also seemed to tremble this time, like she had remembered what she should not have forgotten.
This time Shirley remembered Shirley's original memory, she forgot about the fact that Rosemary used to torture her when her father left the mansion, these days Gilbert was always at home making Shirley forget about this.
Hence why Shirley felt familiar with this room, it turned out that this was the room that Rosemary had used to torture Shirley before.
"Don't make me do this, Shirley. I won't bother you as long as you shut up and stay away from me and my children, otherwise you will have to suffer the consequences, you must remember this well, dear." The corners of Rosemary's mouth lifted slyly, then she waved the whip in her hand.
Seeing that Shirley winced in surprise, it seemed like her bad premonition really happened this time. Shirley was trying to get out of Rosemary's confinement, she had to escape right now.
Desperately Shirley tried to run away from the room, but it was all in vain when she felt an excruciating pain in her back, the terrible whip landing perfectly on her back.
Shirley collapsed helplessly on the cold floor, while Rosemary didn't stop there, she continued to whip Shirley until she was satisfied. Once satisfied Rosemary locked Shirley in the room alone without medicine or food.