Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 148

Chapter 148: Bye-bye Ophelia.

The sharp sound of the slap took everyone by surprise as it was not a reaction they had been expecting to see, not from Ruth that had been defending Ophelia only a few minutes ago.

What was responsible for this sharp turn of events?

“She is really good, i can see why she led you around by the nose and killed you.” The Saxon spirit commented as she observed the faces of everyone.

With one slap, Ruth safely dug herself out of the hole in the eyes of some family members. Collin for one was very satisfied.

“We should call the police.” Phoebe suggested.

Edward nodded and so did grandma Mayfair, a theft of something as valuable as the pink butterfly was not to be taken lightly. It was worth fifteen million dollars, more if put up for sale on an auction.

Ruth looked down and gritted her teeth, biting a part of her cheek in the process as anger washed over her. Involving the police might lead to more complications which could trace back to her. No, she would not stand by and watch it happen.

“Police!” she she put her hand on her head and gasped. “Little sister, isn’t that going a little too far? She has served this family for more than forty years, how can we heartlessly throw her to the police? I know that she has done something wrong but we should not be so cruel.” Looking at the others, one after another, she slapped her chest lightly and lamented.

“She was by sickbed night and bed whenever i was sick. She was always waiting for me with an umbrella at school, rain or shine, in health and sickness. If i asked for something special to eat at three in the night, she would run out and buy it immediately. Mother, do you even remember the attempted kidnapping when i was ten years old, Ophelia fought the kidnappers and she was stabbed.

Even when she was in pain and bleeding, she still saved me. How can we send someone like her to the police because of one mistake?”

The emotional appeal she made created some fractures in the hearts of all the Mayfairs. How could they forget the scene of a bleeding Ophelia carrying Ruth on her back and racing off to the safety of the car without a care about her own well being.

She had ordered the driver to drive them to the house first and ensured Ruth’s safety first before collapsing to the ground.

“We can just terminate her services and send her away.” Collin suggested.

Ruth nudged Ophelia, urging her to quickly take the deal before someone mentioned the police again. There was no point in taking Ruth down with her so Ophelia quickly fell to her knees.

“It is my fault, i am sorry for betraying your trust.” she admitted in a small voice.

“Are you admitting that you stole the brooch then?” Edward asked.

Nodding her head, Ophelia admitted that she did take the brooch from the master’s bedroom.

“Why did you do such a thing?” Jennie asked her.

Ophelia looked up and flashed Phoebe and accusatory look, indicating that she was somehow the cause of the problem.

“Since miss Phoebe came into this house, you all have changed your attitude towards Miss Ruth. When she was sick in the hospital, you were all giving attention to Phoebe, laughing happily and welcoming her home.

You even gave her miss Ruth’s bedroom so easily and bought her all those cars. What did miss Ruth get as a gift when she came back from the hospital apart from some small jewels? She did not even receive as much as a bicycle.

The matriarch’s attitude has changed completely and she scolds miss Ruth openly. Mr. Edward even went so far as to give Phoebe a gift worth billions. As for master Andre, you do not need to glasses to see that she has quickly become his favorite sister.

It hurt me to see the young miss that i raised suffer as a result of all these changes. She has been having a hard time sleeping so she is taking sleeping pills. She has no appetite and she cries often, scared that she is going to be abandoned. Even though i know that none of this is really miss Phoebe’s fault, i can’t help but to blame her in my heart.

I wanted everything to go back to normal like it was before she came to this house, so I took the brooch and hid it because I wanted her to be thrown out of the house for stealing the Mayfair family heirloom.”

He voice cracked as she was winding up her confession. She did not admit to hiding the brooch in Phoebe’s room and instead of coming off as a thief, she came off as someone who simply did the wrong thing for what she perceived to be a noble reason.

Jennie felt her chest tighten, it always did each time Ophelia acted like Ruth’s mother, making it seem as if she loved her more than everybody else in the family. Even when Ruth was young, Ophelia would intervene in some of the decisions she made concerning Ruth’s personal life.

If she didn’t know better, she would actually suspect that they were mother and daughter. As for the saving Ruth from kidnappers incident, it had given Ophelia even more importance in the house. She was treated like a relative instead of a maid from that day.

Like it or not, her past good deeds could not be changed. It still did not give her the right to steal from them or undermine Phoebe. As the mother to the two women, she had to step in to avoid both Phoebe and Ruth from being wronged. She placed a hand to her chest and sighed deeply.

“It doesn’t make what you did right, if you had any grievances whatsoever, you could have told us. Ruth is still a member of this family regardless of having no blood ties, and we have not wronged her in any way like you are insinuating.

More importantly it’s only fair that Phoebe is showered with love after all she is my biological daughter who had a rough life. I have to make up for the time we missed and the love she did not get as a child and I am not going to be apologetic about it.

You have crossed your limits Ophelia, leave by the end of the day. I do not want to see you near the Mayfair mansion, Ruth, Phoebe or any of my other children again.”

The words that Jennie spoke surprised them all because by far she had been walking on tip toes around Ruth in relation to Phoebe. It looked like she would not be doing so anymore and she was going to build a relationship with Phoebe openly.

Tears sprouted from Ophelia’s eyes as she apologized continuously, begging to be allowed to stay but everyone remained stoic. She had already proven that she had a deep seated grudge against Phoebe and even plotted against her so how could they allow her to stay under the same roof as her?

Ruth glared at her and snapped her fingers.

“You heard my mother, go pack your bags and leave our house. We cannot stay with a thief Ophelia, you should not have plotted against my sister. That sin cannot be forgiven.”

She had noticed that there was no way Ophelia was coming back from this and to stay on good terms with the family she had to pretend to care about Phoebe.

“Thief, what thief?” David made his entrance just as Oman rushed into the living room to announce his arrival.