Chapter 265 Sewing Her Mouth Shut
Darian's voice was cold.
Desmond glanced at the two identical-looking people in front of him and asked, "Mr. Fitzgerald, may I know which one is your wife?" As the words trailed off, Darian's gaze swept between the two. At this moment, everyone was watching the three of them.
Darian turned around, facing the two directly, examining their faces more clearly and intuitively.
Eliza's hands on both sides tightened slightly. After all, it didn't matter who Darian's wife was; it had little to do with who the real Cecily was. How could he be sure that he had married the real Cecily from the beginning?
Though not afraid, Eliza still felt tense under his deep, icy stare, her legs growing weak with the weight of his scrutiny.
Cecily blinked and saw Darian standing in front of the fake Cecily. Her heart felt a bit heavy. 'Had Darian also mistaken her for me?' she thought.
Desmond's way of distinguishing between the two now was based on one having a crystal pendant and the other not. Seeing Darian stop in front of the one with the crystal pendant, Desmond asked, "Mr. Fitzgerald, is this your wife?"
Responding to Desmond was a cold, mocking laugh, not directed at Desmond, but at the woman in front of him. "Even if you make yourself look more alike, a fake is still a fake," Darian said, his voice carrying sarcasm and coldness.
Cecily's hand was immediately grabbed by a large hand as she heard these words. She raised her head slightly, looking at Darian with a hint of surprise.
Darian turned his head to look at her, noticing that Cecily's expression was not good. Being betrayed by someone she considered closest couldn't have left her looking well.
Sensing the distress in her complexion, Darian looked at her closely, furrowing his brows. "Have you been wronged?"
Cecily gently pursed her lips. For some reason, when Darian recognized her with just one glance, a sense of relief and long-suppressed grievances welled up in Cecily's heart. It was as if she had suddenly let go of all her defenses and became vulnerable. At least, after facing everything alone for so long, it didn't seem so bad now that someone had recognized her without hesitation.
"No." She shook her head.
Darian's dark eyes revealed a hint of obvious concern. "Your emotions are all over your face."
"I'm just a little sad," Cecily replied.
Darian glanced at the Watson family standing beside them. All the members of the Watson family were on the side of the impostor. Darian knew what had happened. He reached out and caressed Cecily's cheek. "It's okay. Those who've made you sad will be dealt with."
Cecily looked up at him.
"Larkin," Darian called out angrily.
Outside the door, Larkin immediately entered with his men. The atmosphere in the living room instantly became tense. Larkin and his men, waiting for Darian's next command, said, "Boss."
"Get rid of this eyesore, and these Watson family members are equally annoying. Make them disappear."
"Yes." Larkin waved his hand, and the bodyguards behind him immediately stepped forward.
The first person to be subdued was Eliza, her face turning pale.
The Watson family members faced the imposing bodyguards coming towards them, their expressions panicked. "What are you doing?" Matilda shouted.
"Stop!" Several elders from the Bennett family also stood up, looking at the chaotic scene. Desmond immediately stepped forward and said, "Mr. Fitzgerald, this is the Bennett family. You can't mess around here."
"But we've already done," Darian said coldly. "Larkin, continue."
The living room was filled with the sound of resistance from several people. Eliza didn't expect Darian to act like this. Darian looked at her with cold eyes.
No one despised her more than him. Five years ago, she used her looks to pose as Cecily and slandered Cecily by claiming she killed Ophelia's child. Five years later, she did the same thing again, hurting his mother and framing Cecily once more. This woman was causing chaos and deserved to die.
Desmond's expression soured, and he said sternly, "Stop them, quickly!"
The security guards of the Bennett family immediately stepped forward. The atmosphere became tense.
Desmond, with a dark expression, looked at Darian and said, "Mr. Fitzgerald, the person you want to harm is the young lady of the Bennett family. Are you going to go against us?"
"The young lady of the Bennett family?" Darian glanced at the woman next to him. On the way here, he had learned about this matter. The reason Cecily was taken away was that she looked very similar to her mother, so she was brought back by the Bennett family.
Cecily had also told him that someone had once told her that the impostor wanted to replace her entirely because she was extremely wealthy. The Bennett family, the richest family in this area, could definitely be considered extremely wealthy. It was a match.
From the current situation, Cecily was the young lady of this family, and the impostor was causing trouble here, trying to take her place.
Darian's eyes turned cold, and he uttered sharply, "Blind fools."
Desmond frowned and said, "Mr. Fitzgerald, this is the Bennett family, and we are handling our own affairs. Please don't interfere."
"My wife has been wronged here. I have to interfere," Darian said.
Desmond was somewhat troubled. Everyone knew the Fitzgerald family's standing in Stellaris Bay. The Bennett family currently didn't even have a head of the family, relying solely on this group of old men to guard it. It was impossible for them to be enemies with the Fitzgerald family.
Desmond said, "Mr. Fitzgerald, the two of them look exactly the same. How do you determine who is your wife?"
Darian sneered, "If I can't even recognize my own wife, then I'm useless, right? No matter how much one person imitates another, their disgusting nature remains unchanged."
Darian's words meant that he had seen through the disgusting nature of the other "Cecily"! Such a vicious remark.
Eliza couldn't hold back her anger and said to Darian, "Mr. Fitzgerald, please watch your language. Who is imitating whom? I am the real Cecily. Why would I need to imitate her?"
Darian snorted disdainfully, his voice tinged with ice. "Don't speak to me with that plastic face of yours. It disgusts me."
Darian's words almost choked Eliza.
"You!" Eliza's face immediately turned dark.
After a few seconds, she said, "Mr. Fitzgerald, how can you be sure that the person you initially married is the real Miss Cecily of the Watson family? You have no basis for saying who is real and who is fake here. Moreover, we have already done a paternity test, and I am the daughter of the Watson family, the young lady that the Bennett family is trying to find, and she is the impostor."
"Do I need to hear all this from you? Can't I make my own judgment? If you continue to slander her, believe it or not, I'll sew your mouth shut," said Darian.
Eliza gritted her teeth. She knew it was difficult to deceive Darian, and saying more was futile. She said, "Regardless, you have no right to lay a finger on me now. I am the young lady of the Bennett family, and only they have a say over me."
"Let's see about that. Someone!" Darian shouted.
Eliza took a step back and said, "Do you want to be enemies with the Bennett family?"
"Mr. Fitzgerald!" Desmond shouted to stop them.
"Forget it," Cecily said, reaching out to stop Darian.
She was well aware of the consequences if the Bennett and the Fitzgerald families truly became enemies. Both sides were powerful, but it was not wise to make enemies easily. Causing a conflict between the two families over someone who had undergone plastic surgery was simply not worth it.
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