Chapter 1306:


    Taking advantage of the moment, Kiley feigned flustered concern and suggested, “Perhaps this would be a good opportunity for you to clear things up for everyone, Maia?”


    After letting out a slight cough, she turned to the audience and announced, “Maia has something to say.”


    Maia gave Kiley an icy stare. She’de to realize she’d misjudged Kiley.


    On the surface, Kiley had seemed detached and guileless, but underneath it all, she’d been cunningly maniptive, carefully shaping public perception from the shadows. At this moment, she’d sessfully cornered Maia.


    Comments were flooding in on the livestream’s chat section.


    “I only just tuned in. Could someone fill me in on what’s going on? I thought this was supposed to be a new productunch for Radiant Jewels. How did it turn into Maia being put on trial?”


    Another spected, “Rosanna must know something really damaging. What other exnation would there be for her making these kinds of statements?”


    Yet anothermenter dered, “There’s no way one person could aplish all of this at the same time. Maia has to be hiding some dark secrets.”


    Maia turned her attention away from Kiley and began walking toward Rosanna at a measured pace.


    The woman standing before her was Richard and Sandra’s biological daughter, Jarrod’s true sister, yet rather than being at the hospital where her parentsy inas, she’d made the trip all the way to this charity function just to confront and condemn her.


    The thought suddenly filled Maia with sympathy for Richard and Sandra.


    Rosanna was both absurd and pitiable. Were it not for the fact that the Morgan family had raised her for seventeen years, Maia wouldn’t have shown any mercy based purely on the way Rosanna had conducted herself.


    While everyone looked on, Maia came to a halt directly before Rosanna.


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    Rosanna reflexively shrunk back, pushing her body against the chair. “What… what are you going to do?”


    Dropping her gaze, Maia responded in a cial tone, “I received official authorization to leave prison temporarily for those interviews. I went through all the proper channels. I can’t fathom why you’ve decided to raise this issue in a setting like this.”


    Rosanna shot back with a contemptuousugh. “What’s preventing me from doing so? Don’t I have the right to speak my mind? Quit with the act. You’re just bluffing! What kind of circumstances could possibly justify letting someone leave prison in the middle of their sentence? Do you honestly think I’m… that all of us areplete morons?”


    Her feelings intensified, causing her voice to get louder. “You think I’m ignorant about the sordid affair you were having with the previous warden? You used those connections to arrange your release—you were his lover. After that, you got involved with a string of powerful men who all helped create multiple fake identities for you.”


    Rosanna practically screamed, “You kept exploiting your rtionships with influential people to get special treatment, and that’s how you turned yourself into a web of personas. Isn’t that the truth?”


    A profound hush descended over the hall—so heavy it felt suffocating.


    What Rosanna had cried out had reverberated through every part of the space and had quickly raced across the livestream and exploded online. Everyone was attempting to make sense of the charges Rosanna had just thrown at Maia.


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