Keely, and instead had a deep animosity towards her. She had been very blind to believe everything Keely said
Jane was exasperated. Pointing a finger at Keely’s face, she yelled
“Get out of the Powell family house this instant! | want you out of my sight!”
With this, Jane shoved Keely, causing her to stumble backwards. She was so furious that she swung her arm in
an attempt to slap Keely, only for
Keely to swiftly grab her hand mid-air and push her away.
Jane, seething with anger, was ready to unleash a torrent of scathing words at Keely. The next moment, however,
the tide changed completely.
Keely quickly snatched the fruit knife from the table in the living room, brandishing it menacingly towards Jane
and the others present.
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Upon seeing this, Jane immediately becterrified. She carefully took a few steps back to create some
distance between herself and Keely and asked in a trembling voice, “Are... are you crazy?”
Keely clenched her teeth tightly and wore a strange smirk on her face, saying, “Yes, I'm crazy, and you're the
one drivingcrazy!”
Keely’s words sent a cold chill down Janet's spine. Frightened, she turned to Carl and urged him on, saying,
“Aren’t you supposed to be sending her abroad? Hurry! Grab her and take her away!”
Ignoring Jane's desperate cry, Carl glanced at the crazed Keely with a frown. He tried to calm her down, saying,
“Put down the knife, Miss
Haywood. You could hurt yourself.”
In that moment, however, Keely’s attention wasn’t fully on him. She waved the fruit knife around wildly and said
through clenched teeth,
“I'm not backing down. If you wantgone, you're going to have to kill me!”
Carl then cast a discreet gaze at his men. Understanding the signal and acknowledging it with a nod, the men
slowly encircled Keely, intending to subdue her.
In a sudden move, however, Keely pressed the blade of the knife horizontally against her neck. With a bitter
smile on her face, she screamed, “Stay back! | demand to see Marco! If | don’t, I'll end my life right here in front
of all of you!”
Initially, Carl thought she was just bluffing and wasn’t too bothered by it. As soon as he took a step forward,
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down her fair neck.
Realizing the gravity of the situation, Carl's expression immediately turned grave. Keely, on the other hand, wore
a bright smile as she spoke, reiterating her ultimatum.
“If Marco doesn’t come, I'll die right here. If that happens, you won't be able to explain yourselves, would you?
You'd all be murderers!”
Carl pressed his Lips together tightly, recognizing that he'd been left with no choice. Reluctantly, he took out his
phone and called Marco.
Immediately the call was connected, he put the phone on speaker and briefly explained what had happened to
Marco.
Keely’s eyes lit up as soon she heard Marco's voice on the phone. She rushed over to the phone, exclaiming
anxiously, “Marco!”