?Chapter 313:


    She ignored the searing wounds across her body, her gaze locked unflinchingly on the distant enemy.


    Meanwhile, Elena had already retrieved her phone and stepped out of Wesley’s sleek car.


    As the vehicle pulled away, she found herself face-to-face with Elyse.


    Elyse’s eyes burned with undisguised jealousy and resentment, her re so intense that her teeth seemed to grind against each other, threatening to shatter from the pressure.


    Elena merely smirked, her expression coolly indifferent as she withdrew her gaze.


    She turned to leave, but Elyse’s voiceshed out behind her.


    “Elena, why were you getting out of Wesley’s car?” Elyse spat, her words dripping with usation. “What shameless things did you do to seduce him? Wesley will never fall for someone like you; stop deluding yourself!”


    Elena nced at her with a measured look of superiority.


    Elyse’s tone rang with fury and force, but Elena found her bothughable and pitiable.


    “Grandma fell ill because of your actions,” Elena scoffed, “and yet here you are, making a spectacle of yourself. You are really something.”


    The antidote had been carefully prepared the previous night, and that morning, Elena had administered it to Bertha.


    After weathering this illness, Bertha appeared significantly weaker, her once vibrant spirit now noticeably diminished.


    When Elena approached her bedside, Bertha’s stern gaze immediately softened with grandmotherly affection.


    She sped Elena’s hand in her frail one, gently urging her not to me Elyse, insisting it was merely her own fragile health and not Elyse’s fault.


    But what did Elyse do?


    She hadn’t shown an ounce of concern for Bertha’s condition, behaving as if her grandmother’s illness waspletely unrted to her actions. She simply couldn’t appreciate the kindness she’d been shown.


    Elyse’s expression wavered before she shot back, “Grandma fell ill because she took her medicine and grapefruit at the same time; it’s not my fault. I didn’t know she had taken the medicine…”


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    Just mentioning this matter made Elyse bristle with irritation. She had only intended to win her grandmother’s favor to gain some advantage for herself.


    Instead, she ended up with nothing except Elena’s contempt and her own growing istion.


    The Harper family had been treating her with unusual coldness these past few days.


    Had she known it would turn out this way, she wouldn’t have wasted her time buying grapefruit for Bertha—all that effort amounting to nothing but disappointment.


    “Anyone with basicmon sense knows not to give random food to someone who’s ill,” Elena replied, her voice sharp as ice. “You didn’t know because you’re simply foolish.”


    “Who do you think you are, insulting me?”


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