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All Chapters of Nine Ungrateful Sisters: Chapter 691 - Chapter 700

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Chapter 691

"I want to rip that lying mouth of yours apart. Steven Rivers is my first cousin once removed. He told me himself it was you. Still want to deny it?"Clara's ear was seized, and her face was jerked sharply to the side.She knew that name. He was her team leader.'Meghan's first cousin once removed?' Her mind went blank for a moment. She had never been good at lying, and she was even less prepared to be caught.Another woman grabbed her hair from the opposite side, yanking it in the other direction. "You stupid little rat. Because of you, we each got 40 bucks docked from our pay. So what are you going to do about it?"Pain shot across Clara's face. "I'm sorry. I'll pay it. I'll pay it back."The moment she saw them closing in, she caved. The apology escaped before she could stop it."That's more like it." Meghan stepped back, and the other woman released her. "Transfer or cash?"Meghan held up her phone.Clara raised hers, then froze.What money? Five women, 40 dollars each. T

Chapter 692

With one sharp tug, Meghan yanked the cord from Clara's neck. The ring came with it.Meghan turned it over in her fingers. She had no idea what it was worth, but she could tell it was valuable.The color was a deep, even green, smooth and cool to the touch, with a quality that no market stall could match.She slipped it onto her finger and held her hand up to the sunlight. Something seemed to move within the stone, a faint current shifting like water."Not bad." She lowered her hand. "This covers it. We're square.""No." Clara grabbed her arm. "That belonged to my father. Give it back!"Everything Arthur had owned had been left behind at the villa.After the sisters were driven out, whatever remained had been sold off piece by piece.Clara had come into the ring by chance. It was the only thing she had left of him."How generous of you." Meghan shoved her backward. "You can find ten rings like this on any street corner for four bucks. I'm doing you a favor by taking it."She

Chapter 693

Clara said it anyway. Something had shifted inside her, and she almost laughed.These women thought they deserved an apology from her?She had done nothing wrong. She had humbled herself as much as she was willing to. Even then, they kept pushing.The woman holding the knife took the word as an invitation. "Fine."She forced Clara's head to one side and drew the blade across her cheek.The others watched with the detached expressions of people enjoying a show.The blade was sharp. It was real.Clara felt it slice her skin, and blood poured from the wound, joining the blood already covering her face from the slaps.But something else happened. A deep calm settled over her, and her fear vanished. Her eyes became steady.The woman raised the knife for another cut.The blade refused to move. She pressed harder.Metal scraped against Clara's skin with a hard, clear ring, like steel striking stone.Across from her, Meghan cried out, "What? It's burning me!"She yanked the ring f

Chapter 694

At that moment, Clara's body had not been hers. She had watched from somewhere just outside herself as her arms unfolded, as the hands pinning her down were thrown aside, and as a force she did not recognize moved through her limbs with calm, overwhelming authority.The strength had not been normal. Neither had what happened to her skin.She reached back and touched her spine. Something had been there. Something that was gone now.It had retreated the moment she put the ring on.She looked at the ring on her finger. She had meant to take it off, but it would not budge.She tugged at it, but nothing happened. She tried again, twisting it and changing the angle of her hand. The ring remained in place as though it had always belonged there.She let her hand fall.She could not wear a burial ring. It had belonged to her father. It had come from a burial. Yet it was still on her finger, and she was still standing.Meghan glanced sideways at the others. She was afraid.She would nev

Chapter 695

"Can we go now?" Meghan asked carefully. "I'll talk to Steven and tell him this was our fault. I'll have him post a notice at the personnel office making that clear."She did not mean a word of it. Once they got out of here, she would figure out how to deal with Clara.Today's group had been smaller than usual. If Clara wanted a rematch, Meghan would be more than happy to come back with more people.So what if Clara's face was tough? So what if she was strong? There were always ways to deal with someone who could not be cut."That's your apology?" Clara raised an eyebrow. Her voice was perfectly flat. "Get on your knees. Slap yourselves. Keep going until I'm satisfied."She sat back down on the bench, crossed her legs, and regarded them with the detached look of someone thoroughly unimpressed."You've got some nerve, lady." Meghan's voice turned sharp. "Do you know who owns this factory? My first cousin's neighbor's uncle. One call from me, and you won't just be paying damages. Y

Chapter 696

Clara had given those women exactly what they deserved. On top of that, she had taken their money.She felt no guilt whatsoever. If anything, she felt cleansed."They say every good shortcut is written somewhere in the criminal code."She almost laughed.She splashed cold water on her face.Only a minute earlier, exhaustion had left her feeling hollow. Now energy coursed through her.She looked at her reflection in the water. It was the same face, yet it felt strangely unfamiliar, like a photograph of someone she had once known.She tried to smile. What appeared was not quite a smile. One corner of her mouth lifted into something cooler, sharper, and far more contemptuous than warm.She reached for a painful memory to test herself.Her eyes remained dry. Her chest did not tighten."I don't love it. But I think I might."She looked down at her arms. Her skin was smoother than before, pale and almost luminous. Yet the hands at the ends of them were anything but delicate. She w

Chapter 697

"I'm giving you the chance. Go cry to your mother." Clara's voice remained flat and even.What followed was anything but.The woman slammed face-first into the wall. She was fairly certain her nose had collapsed, and several of her teeth no longer felt right.The other four were off their bunks before she finished sliding to the floor."What do you think you're doing?"Clara slowly rolled her neck once. "No rush. One at a time."A few minutes later, Clara walked out of the dormitory, whistling with her bag slung over her shoulder.The sounds coming from inside the room were wet and indistinct. Anyone passing through the corridor would have assumed a rowdy fight had broken out.They had no way of knowing that all five women now had mouths swollen beyond recognition, several fewer teeth than they had started with, and no ability left to form coherent words.Clara never looked back. She headed toward the management building.She still had wages to collect.A security guard step

Chapter 698

Clara walked toward Steven. Without thinking, she pushed up her sleeve, just as she always did when there was work to be done.Steven saw something entirely different. He had no intention of paying her. If he set that precedent, anyone who lasted two days could walk out expecting the same treatment, and production would fall apart.But this conversation could still go another way."Pay you? Sure." His gaze drifted to her bare arm, and the corners of his mouth lifted. "But I'll need a reason. Something I can take upstairs."Clara raised an eyebrow. "What kind of reason?"She had come here to make his life difficult. She was in no hurry.He had promised to handle the dormitory situation, then turned around and reported her to his cousin. That deserved payback.She was more than happy to let him speak first. A hunted animal that struggled was always more satisfying than one that gave up."There are a few different kinds."Steven let his gaze roam over her. Clara was striking, wit

Chapter 699

Clara gripped him by the throat with one hand. "I told you. Pay me, and I go. You made it complicated."With the other, she pulled out his phone, unlocked it with his thumb, and transferred herself a little over 200 dollars.It was the pay he owed her for the past several days.Then she released him. She had not put much force behind the throw.Even so, Steven flew all the way to the window, and the glass offered no resistance.Clara listened to the impact from below, gave a small nod, and heard the shouting begin a moment later.She felt nothing in particular.Wages determined whether entire families survived. Making someone work without paying them was an endless humiliation.She turned around. The security guard from the entrance stood in the doorway with several colleagues. They all wore the same expression as they looked at her."Got what I came for. Thanks." She lifted a hand in farewell and walked toward them.They stepped aside without a word.That amount was not wor

Chapter 700

"The suspect has been identified as Clara, formerly the third heiress of the Chamberlain family, once one of Silverton's most prominent households..."Freya was beside herself. She scratched at Oscar's arm and cried out in short, urgent bursts, pointing at the phone screen, then the window, then back at the screen.Oscar had already seen it.His brow furrowed. "Clara? A killing?"He knew Clara. He had grown up under the same roof as her. The woman he remembered could not even kill a chicken. She flinched whenever someone stepped on an insect. She felt guilty over things most people never gave a second thought to.He opened the article. The footage was shaky, but clear enough. Clara had one hand wrapped around a man's throat as she carried him to the window and threw him out.She hadn't pushed but thrown him.He had still been several feet from the window when she let go. The camera cut away, then picked her up again as she walked down the dormitory corridor, unhurried and comple

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