"With your dad leading a search team, that's already enough."
"I understand you want to help Aunt Ella, but Mom needs you too. Aren't you afraid something might happen to me?"
...
Sophie Foster fanned the flames on the sidelines, occasionally reminding, "Ed, you're just a kid. You can't take such risks..."
"Mind your own damn business!"
Edbert Walker never bothered to show her a kind face, lashing out angrily, "Aren't you supposed to be close with Aunt Ella? Since you don't want me to go find her, why don't you go yourself?"
One sentence rendered Sophie Foster speechless.
Her face slightly pale, she feigned weakness and fear, but deep down she was brimming with glee.
Go look for Ella Lacey?
I wish she'd fall to her death!
Yes, falling to her death would be perfect!
Sophie hadn't anticipated her first plan to go so smoothly—Ella Lacey falling off the cliff this effortlessly. She just didn't know whether Ella had died or not.