CHAPTER 897: CHAPTER 897: PLEASE SHOW MERCY

Miss Brooks looked at Claire Lowell’s terrifying appearance and felt a twinge of unease. She tentatively asked, "Miss Lowell, what do you plan to do?"

"I plan to..." Claire Lowell stopped abruptly in the middle of her sentence and coldly smirked at the eager-looking Miss Brooks. "Why are you so concerned about what I’m planning to do? Are you planning to betray me to please that Rise?"

Miss Brooks was taken aback and quickly waved her hands and shook her head. "No, no, how could I think that? I am loyal to you, Miss Lowell, how could I betray you? I, I’m so wronged, and so heartbroken!"

Claire Lowell glanced at Miss Brooks’s aggrieved expression, not taking it to heart at all. "You’d better think like that, or else you might never see your family again. If you can truly cut ties with them, then so be it."

Miss Brooks was shocked and exclaimed, "Miss Lowell, what do you mean!"

"What do I mean? Why don’t you call home and find out?"

Upon hearing this, Miss Brooks immediately took out her phone to call home, but no one answered. She grew more anxious and immediately called the family’s butler.

The butler was quite surprised to receive Miss Brooks’s call. "Miss, didn’t you ask Miss Lowell to send someone to pick up your parents and little brother to attend the Martial Arts Conference?"

I never arranged for anyone to pick up my parents and brother!

Claire Lowell wouldn’t be so kind as to invite their parents to attend the Martial Arts Conference.

So her family was deceived by people arranged by Claire Lowell.

Miss Brooks was almost going crazy. She grabbed Claire Lowell’s hand in a frenzy. "Claire! You had someone take my parents and brother, what do you want? Tell me, what are you trying to do?"

"Calm down!" Claire Lowell frowned, speaking coldly. "If you can’t control your temper, I’m afraid you’ll never see them again in this lifetime."

Thinking of Claire Lowell’s methods, Miss Brooks was abruptly startled. She immediately controlled her emotions, lowered her head, and repeatedly apologized. "I’m sorry, I didn’t do it on purpose, I was just too anxious, hoping you’d forgive me."

Claire Lowell looked at the bruise on her own wrist. "Not on purpose?"

"I..." Miss Brooks gritted her teeth and slapped herself hard on the face again and again, continuously apologizing. "Miss Lowell, it’s all my fault, please, you must forgive me."

Claire Lowell watched coldly until Miss Brooks’s face turned into a swollen mess before she mercifully called a stop.

Miss Brooks’s face was numb, and her mouth tasted full of blood, yet she didn’t dare to complain, and hastily thanked. "Thank you, Miss Lowell." She eagerly looked at Claire Lowell. "What about my parents? Miss Lowell, you know, my parents are ordinary people, and my brother is young; they can’t do anything. Please, show some mercy and spare them."

Seeing Miss Brooks on the verge of tears, Claire Lowell finally showed mercy. "Alright, you don’t have to be like this. As long as you loyally serve me, do you think I would be unkind to your family? Rest assured."

How could Miss Brooks be at ease?

No one knew Claire Lowell’s ruthless tactics better than she did after all these years.

But given the situation, she had no choice but to comply.

As for Rise...

She could only apologize.

After all, with such strong capabilities and countless protectors around her, Rise presumably wouldn’t encounter any big troubles either.

Even if she was wrong or if any unexpected incident happened, it was all predestined fate.