Chapter 261 This Is Not the Waverly Family's Crest Ring
Isabella laughed at that.
She raised her eyebrows with a completely indifferent look. "Then go ahead and try."
"How dare you!"
Seraphina didn't expect Isabella to be so arrogant and so clueless!
A cold glint flashed in Seraphina's eyes as she gathered a sharp killing intent in her hand and struck directly at Isabella.
This move from Seraphina carried real killing intent. Even if she didn't plan to kill Isabella, she intended to cripple her.
After all, Isabella was just a Lumaria girl. Even if she died at her hands, it wouldn't matter.
Everyone present naturally sensed her killing intent, and their expressions changed.
Including Alton and Tyrell, who had just come downstairs and didn't know what was happening, their eyes widened at this sudden scene.
"Alton!" William called out urgently.
Alton rushed over at the sound.
At the critical moment, Alton used his body to block the strike for Isabella.
Alton felt a tearing pain in his chest, and the next second he coughed up blood.
Tyrell and William both breathed a sigh of relief.
With Alton's physical condition, taking this strike would definitely injure him, but it would just be an injury. If Isabella had taken this hit instead, she would definitely have died!
There was no way around it—ancient martial arts professionals naturally had a physical advantage over ordinary people.
Alton was in pain and angry.
The pain was real.
He was angry that he had to block this strike for Isabella against his will. He would have preferred to watch her get killed, but he couldn't disobey William's orders.
Alton had already heard about Seraphina's stolen signet ring. He stood in front of Isabella and reluctantly said to Seraphina, "Ms. Seraphina Waverly, can't we talk this through? Attacking directly like this—isn't that bullying?"
Wasn't it exactly bullying? How could a delicate woman like Isabella be a match for Seraphina? One slap from Seraphina would probably kill her.
Tyrell walked over. "Since the Waverly family is so unwelcoming, we'll leave now, so we won't be blamed when something else goes missing."
"When did I blame..."
Before Seraphina could finish, Rosalind interrupted her. "Seraphina, you have no proof! The surveillance only showed Isabella walking toward your room, but it didn't show her entering your room or stealing anything."
Seraphina was speechless.
She glanced coldly at Isabella, then her eyes darkened as she asked Sterling, "Have you searched her?"
Sterling shook his head. "Not yet."
"Then search her!" Seraphina ordered coldly.
She had to find the signet ring on her today!
William frowned, looking displeased. "Searching the room wasn't enough, now you want to search her body?"
Seraphina said, "If she didn't steal anything, why would she be afraid of being searched? She must have a guilty conscience!"
Before William could say anything, Isabella said directly, "It's fine, let her search."
She glanced at Seraphina. "If nothing is found this time, then the theft of your signet ring has nothing to do with us. I hope you'll stop making trouble."
Seraphina snorted coldly. "If nothing is found, you can all leave this castle."
With that, she signaled Sterling to conduct the search.
"Get a woman to do it," William said.
Seraphina looked around the hall and fixed her gaze on a maid. "Rose, you do it."
Rose?
Isabella raised her eyebrows at the name.
She suddenly remembered the scent of roses she had smelled near Seraphina's bedroom door last night.
Was it a coincidence?
As Isabella was thinking, the maid named Rose was already walking toward her.
With her came a faint scent of roses.
"Ms. Taylor, excuse me."
Isabella said nothing and spread her arms to let her search.
Everyone watched this scene closely.
Suddenly, Rose pulled out a signet ring from an inner pocket of Isabella's shirt.
This ring looked just like the Waverly family's signet ring.
"Good! And you said you didn't steal it!" Seraphina looked at the signet ring found on Isabella and laughed coldly. "Then what's this?"
She knew it—it must have been this lowly Lumaria girl who stole it.
"Caught red-handed. What excuse do you have now?"
William was stunned that a signet ring was actually found on Isabella. He couldn't process it for a moment.
Alton was furious.
He really didn't expect Isabella to actually steal Seraphina's signet ring.
Didn't she know what a signet ring represented? How dare she steal such a thing? Did she just steal it because she thought it was valuable?
This was crazy.
"Why did you steal Ms. Seraphina Waverly's signet ring? Don't you know that a signet ring is a family heirloom? Stealing such a thing—even if the Waverly family beat you to death, you'd deserve it!" Alton said indignantly.
Such a woman really didn't deserve to be William's girlfriend. Not only was she useless, but she did such sneaky things.
He shouldn't have blocked that strike for her. He should have let Seraphina slap this woman of poor character to death!
Listening to Alton's words, Isabella's expression didn't change. She just smiled lightly. "Ms. Seraphina Waverly, why don't you take a closer look—is this really your family's signet ring?"
"If it's not our family's signet ring, what else could it be?"
Seraphina strode over and snatched the signet ring from Rose's hand.
But the next second, her expression changed.
This wasn't the Waverly family's signet ring.
Although this signet ring was made of the same material as their family's ring and also had patterns carved on it, the Waverly family's signet ring had a bald eagle engraved on the front and the Waverly family name on the back.
But this signet ring had a phoenix carved on both sides, and the feel of it in her hand was different from her ring.
Each family's heirloom was designed with certain secrets. Family members couldn't possibly mistake a real one from a fake. Even if two identical real and fake signet rings were placed before her, she could tell at a glance which was real and which was fake.
Not to mention that Isabella's signet ring was completely different from the Waverly family's.
Rosalind didn't even need to walk closer. She could tell from a distance. "This isn't our family's signet ring."
Seraphina's brows furrowed.
How could this be?
How could it not be the Waverly family's signet ring?
Then what was this signet ring?
"Ms. Seraphina Waverly," Isabella said coolly, "can you return my belongings now?"
Seraphina had nothing to say and had to return the signet ring to Isabella.
The phoenix pattern on the signet ring only made her think of the Powell family, which used the phoenix as their symbol.
However, she didn't think the ring in Isabella's hand was the Powell family's signet ring. The phoenix pattern on this ring probably wasn't the Powell family's phoenix either, since even she had never seen the Powell family's signet ring.
Seraphina figured this signet ring was probably just an ordinary ornament.
Just like how the bald eagle pattern from their family's signet ring also appeared on many decorative items, and similar signet rings were sold on the market, but none could replace the Waverly family's actual signet ring.