Mrs Hale, I Surrender
Chapter 114 Cunning Argument: Without Me, You Would Have Died Long Ago (3rd Update)

Chapter 114: 114 Cunning Argument: Without Me, You Would Have Died Long Ago (3rd Update)

Zoe Bell’s voice was originally gentle, but now it was resounding as if it was thrown to the ground.

It was as cold as frost carrying snow, as sharp as a comment hiding a barb.

Especially the sudden cold light emitting from her eyes, which made people look away in fear.

Director Hall stood frozen on the spot, and Kevin Bell’s face was full of shock as he looked around the house. "Director Hall, this place isn’t your house, is it?"

"This... This isn’t..."

She stumbled over her words, still trying to make excuses.

"All Blessings, without a guilty conscience?" Zoe Bell sneered, "You hid it very well, even daring to embezzle money donated to orphans. Are you even human?"

"You’re worse than animals!"

"Zoe Bell!" Director Hall was infuriated by these words, "What did you say to me?"

"I said, you are shameless, with a black heart and rotten lungs!"

"You..." Director Hall was so provoked that her face turned ashen, "Let me tell you, among all those children, you have no right to talk to me like this! I has taken care of so many people over the years, and I treated you the best."

"Were you good to me? Or did you just want the Bell Family’s money?"

"Nonsense!" Director Hall denied too quickly.

It had a taste of guilty conscience and anger from being ashamed.

"How much money did you swallow up?" Kevin Bell was short of money, and his eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Zoe Bell, you have no heart."

"You must have forgotten, when you were sick, who took care of you day and night, when you were wronged and distressed, who comforted you, and also... when you were abandoned by your first adoptive family, it was me who brought you back! I even got in touch with the Bell Family for you."

"Otherwise, you would have been out in the cold, dead from freezing or starving!"

Kyle Lowe, standing aside, was stunned.

Madam,

had once been abandoned?

Even Kevin Bell didn’t know about this, and was also surprised when he heard it.

"Just because I had been adopted and then abandoned, that’s why I am even more grateful to you, and even more in disbelief that you would do such a thing." Zoe Bell had a special feeling for the orphanage and Director Hall because of this.

She had no memories of her biological family, being too young when she arrived at the orphanage.

But the first time she was adopted, that family treated her very well, even buying her a cake.

It was the first time she could have a cake all to herself, not needing to share it with anyone else. She even joyfully called them mom and dad.

The result was, she was sent back to the orphanage the next day.

She never knew the reason.

It was also the first taste she had of being abandoned, so once she arrived at the Bell Family, no matter what happened, she always tried her best to endure it, all because she did not want to be abandoned again.

Director Hall, overly emotional, pointed at her, "Your success today is all because of me, and now you turn around and accuse me, do you have any conscience?"

"I think William Hale has brainwashed you."

"He says I am not good, and you believe him?"

Zoe Bell bowed her head and chuckled to herself, pulling out a file bag from her bag, opening it, "Gold Leaf Courtyard, Worldmaster, Landscape Garden..."

Kevin Bell frowned; these were all names of areas in Greenland City.

As she read the names one by one, Director Hall could no longer keep up her façade.

It was like being completely unmasked, exposing all her filthy secrets under the sun.

She suddenly became agitated and rushed toward Zoe Bell.

"Stop talking!"

Kyle Lowe stepped forward, trying to hold her back.

But he didn’t expect Zoe Bell to be even quicker. The moment Director Hall lunged forward, Zoe raised her hand and fiercely slapped her across the face.

After all, Director Hall was nearly 60 years old, and she couldn’t withstand such a slap.

She stumbled, nearly falling to the ground.

"What? Now you care about your face? Can’t bear to hear more?" Zoe Bell glared angrily at her, "You just said you only have a salary of a few thousand a month, but why do you own seven properties in Greenland!"

"These aren’t mine." Director Hall, who was respected everywhere she went, hadn’t suffered before this.

Covering her face, she was frustrated and furious.

"Indeed, they aren’t registered under your name. Two were given to your daughter, and the remaining five are all under your son’s name. Surely you can’t claim to be ignorant about all of them."

"I don’t know!"

"Then why are you so agitated?"

Zoe Bell flung her hand, slapping the document on her face, "Take a look for yourself, other than the house, there are other things. Do I need to read them out loud to you one by one?"

"These are enough to keep you in prison for the rest of your life."

Director Hall’s face only flashed a hint of panic upon hearing about prison.

"Zoe, do you really want to do this to me?"

Zoe Bell clenched her lips tightly, her eyes filled with shock and disappointment.

"After leaving the hospital, I gave you a chance, which you didn’t cherish because I didn’t want to believe that all this was true. I hoped you would explain it to me in person, but you didn’t."

"You were still making excuses at the doorstep!"

"How shameless can you get?"

"Me, shameless?" Director Hall scoffed coldly, touching her face that had been hit, feeling the burning pain, "I’ve spent half my life in the orphanage, even not having time to accompany my own child."

"Earning a meager salary each month, yet enduring society’s scrutiny and endless inspections, and in the end, not even having the money for my child’s wedding."

"When the orphanage was almost unable to sustain itself, it was I who looked everywhere for donations. Without me, the orphanage would’ve been long gone."

"I just misappropriated a small portion of the donations."

"That’s absurd!" Zoe Bell sneered.

A small portion, just the villa they were staying in at the moment was worth several million.

The wicked,

always beautify all their evil deeds.

"In the eyes of those wealthy people, several millions, tens of millions—they consider nothing; their donations are just a show, another way to make money. Do you think they really want to help you orphans?"

Zoe Bell’s lips curled coldly, "Aren’t we just your tools for amassing wealth?"

"That’s different, at least I took care of you!"

"You really..." Zoe clenched her fingers, "make me feel sick."

"Hypocritical, selfish, and shameless!"

As things had come to this, Director Hall no longer pretended, but instead looked at her pitifully.

"Zoe, you always called me ’mother,’ after all. I know you’re a good child by nature, so even after you discovered my deeds, you didn’t expose me publicly; you even fell out with William Hale for my sake."

Kevin Bell became anxious upon hearing this.

He was still counting on William Hale to save him.

"So, you really don’t want to expose me, do you?" Director Hall looked at Zoe Bell, "Zoe, there are just a few of us here. I beg you to let me go this time."

Zoe Bell nodded, "I can agree, and I can ensure my people won’t speak out."

My people?

Kyle Lowe cleared his throat softly.

It seems he was the one she meant.

"But Director Hall, how should we silence President Bell?"

The way she addressed Director Hall already foretold that their relationship could never return to what it was before.

"This..." Director Hall immediately looked towards Kevin Bell.

"He’s short on money right now. Why don’t you regurgitate everything you’ve swallowed over the years? Maybe he will let you off." Zoe Bell’s eyebrows knitted tightly, as if she was helping her strategize.

"My little money, President Bell would not care for." Director Hall said, visibly panicked.

"I’ve roughly estimated the assets registered under your and your family’s names. Isn’t it almost ten million, at least several millions?"

"You actually have so much money?" Kevin Bell even struggled to come up with one million to appease the Fletcher Family.

At this moment, even a mosquito leg was meat to him; he was definitely not going to let this go.

The Bell Family donated millions annually to the orphanage, not to mention over nearly twenty years, it added up to no small sum.

To eat it up and then spit it out?

How could Director Hall bear it, her gaze on Zoe Bell was cold and fierce:

"I was wondering why President Bell would suddenly seek me out. Was it you father and daughter who deliberately set me up?"

"Zoe Bell, you are truly vicious!"