Chapter 192

Christian didn’t understand how these people could lie with such coordinated silence.

Gabriel glanced coldly at Daniella after hearing what the maids said. Daniella shuddered and quickly tried to explain, “I didn’t, I didn’t do anything—they’re lying.”

A maid said, “The one who lies the most is obviously you. Ever since Ms. Abigail Gibson came back, you’ve been picking fights on purpose, then acting like she hurt you the moment your parents and brothers showed up, and crying like a victim.”

“Yeah. The last time she framed Ms. Abigail Gibson was three years ago—I even accidentally caught it on video.”

Daniella never thought the maids would remember everything she had done. In her mind, these maids were just walking objects. No matter how badly she behaved, she believed they’d forget it right away. She thought that’s just how a rich girl should live.

“Why are you so mean to me? I didn’t do anything this morning,” Daniella screamed.

She couldn’t understand why they were still accusing her after she had already tolerated so much of their bullying.

“If you didn’t do anything, then why would Mr. Christian Gibson slap me?” Cathy snapped. “That’s her old trick. She acts so innocent, and her two brothers still blamed and yelled at Ms. Abigail Gibson.”

The maids’ words triggered a flood of memories in Daniella. She remembered when Abigail had just come back—how she tripped her on purpose and made her fall into the pond.

She had pretended to help Abigail, but then deliberately let her go again, and kept pressing her into the freezing water. Abigail almost froze to death before the maids pulled her out.

Abigail had clearly caught a cold. Daniella, to apologize, brought her a bowl of chicken soup. Seeing Abigail’s tiny and shabby room had made Daniella realize that the Gibson family never cared about her at all.

So she loosened her grip on the bowl on purpose as she handed it over. She let it scald her a little, but Abigail’s hands and arms were covered in blisters.

Then Daniella cried and accused Abigail of knocking the bowl over. Stephen and Christian had stormed in, grabbed Abigail by her blistered hand, dragged her out of bed, and slapped her.

Ever since then, Daniella kept repeating the same petty tricks, making Abigail’s life in the Gibson family feel like hell.

At the time, all the maids had testified that Daniella had done nothing wrong. The more they protected her, the more openly she bullied Abigail—even Bianca, who’d once treated Abigail with a bit of kindness, started to grow sick of her.

Back then, every time Daniella cried, the whole Gibson family would automatically blame Abigail, even when she was at school.

Now that Daniella was recalling all of this, she felt a chill run down her spine because she was finally experiencing what Abigail had gone through.

She snapped back to the present, and when she saw the disappointment in Bianca’s eyes and the disgust in Gabriel’s, she started to cry. “I didn’t do those things! Mom, Dad, that maid is lying—”

“Enough. Not a single word she says is believable anymore. You’ve clearly lost your mind. You know she lies all the time, and you’re still defending her? I’m done listening to you,” Gabriel interrupted Christian impatiently.

Christian grew more desperate. He lunged forward and grabbed Cathy, shouting, “You’d better explain yourself. I hit you because you were bullying her in the maids’ room!”

The maids said, “We didn’t bully her at all. Mr. Christian Gibson, if you’re gonna slander us just to protect her, then we really can’t keep working here.”

“Exactly. We get up early every day to clean—what, now that’s wrong too? At this rate, are you just gonna yell at and hit the help whenever you feel like it?”

“Daniella, can you stop causing trouble for once?” Gabriel said through gritted teeth.

Christian shoved aside the maid who had falsely accused him.

Bianca turned to Cathy and said, “We’ll pay you six thousand dollars in compensation. Let’s just call it even, alright? Everyone else, get back to work. We’ll move Daniella to another room, and from now on, you don’t need to clean her room.”