All Chapters of Nine Ungrateful Sisters: Chapter 601 - Chapter 610

Helena's face went stiff. She knew exactly why Elara had ended up that way. Oscar hadn't hidden the truth from her.The seizures and the shock of everything crashing down on her at once had been too much. Elara had retreated somewhere deep inside herself, where the real world could no longer reach her.With that precedent right in front of her, how could Helena guarantee Diana wouldn't end up the same way?"Still, leaving her to handle all of that alone downstairs doesn't sit right with me," she said. "You have an entire company full of people. That's not a one-person job."Rebecca waved the concern away. "So she doesn't finish. That's fine. It's small stuff, and it builds character."She glanced at Elara again. "Besides, if anyone's going to help her, it shouldn't be us. Her sister is right here in this room. We're hardly next in line. She came to our house to work as a housekeeper, not to be waited on."The words landed.Elara, who had been smiling pleasantly only a moment ago

Diana's head was still spinning. Her thoughts refused to settle into any coherent order.The mocking looks from everyone around her made one thing painfully clear: she was expected to admit it.She was Diana, the fourth daughter of the Chamberlain family. That was an undeniable fact.When she looked at Elara's face and noticed the panic creeping into her eyes and the desperation etched across every feature, she could not bring herself to say it.Elara was already in this state. What would another shock do to her? Diana was not willing to find out.While Diana still hesitated, the executives took their cue from Rebecca's glance."So this is how the Chamberlain family raises their children? No spine, no guts. The family may have fallen, but I never thought they'd sink so low that they can't even admit who they are. Tsk. Arthur was such a prominent man in his day. How did he end up with offspring like this?""They're girls. What do you expect? A bunch of spineless women, the lot of

Only the sound of the ladle filled the kitchen, its steady rhythm scraping and turning against the wok.When Diana finally finished the dish she had been working on, she noticed Elara beside her, quietly doing her part while tears streamed down her face. At some point, the tears had begun to fall, and Elara did not seem to have noticed.Diana stared. She was crying? Did she truly understand what it meant that Diana had admitted she was her sister?Diana and Elara had always been closer than any other pair among the sisters. Their personalities were remarkably alike, and they had both chosen steady, practical paths in life.They had never run out of things to talk about. When Elara collapsed, Diana had not stayed by her side out of obligation alone. Even without the bond of sisterhood, she would have done the same. Elara was her closest friend, and Diana had wanted nothing more than to see her wake up.But she had never allowed herself to think of it that way. Not once in all this

Diana's thoughts were in complete disarray.She was no saint. She was not the kind of person who took a slap on the left cheek and offered the right one with a smile.She had a temper. She had strong opinions about what was right and what was wrong. She had spent the entire day swallowing her anger, especially through all the petty, pointless tasks they had piled onto her just to watch her struggle.More than once, she had been ready to throw everything down and walk out.But she hadn't. This was a test. Oscar was testing whether she was truly serious about repairing things between them.This was only her second day. The beginning was always the hardest. The first three days were the worst. If she couldn't make it through three days, she would have no business claiming she was serious about any of this.Thus, she endured. She refused to believe Oscar had become so cold that there was no reaching him.There was something else too, something she hadn't expected. In the middle of a

Diana hadn't had time to think. Or maybe she had simply been too exhausted and overwhelmed to think clearly.Either way, her mind had fixated on one thing and one thing only. Elara could not be allowed to announce why she was here. And if she insisted on announcing it, she could not be allowed to walk out that door.The ladle came down, and Elara collapsed to the floor.Before Diana could even process what she had done, the kitchen door swung open.A crowd stood on the other side.Oscar faced her directly, his expression completely unreadable.To his left stood a line of Draconia executives, their hands clamped over their mouths in stunned disbelief. To his right, Rebecca clung to his chest, her face drained of color, while George and Helena stood beside her with wide, horrified eyes."Elara!" Helena was the first to move. She rushed forward and dropped to her knees beside Elara.Her thoughts spiraled. Which one of them had lost their mind?She had known Elara wasn't well. Ev