Chapter 433: Giving You a Choice
Everyone was watching Leandro.
They had all witnessed Isabella's terrifying power, watching helplessly as Tyler was frozen to death in such a bizarre way.
Now, Leandro had also fallen victim to Isabella's Mirage Arts. As a powerful hypnotist, could Leandro successfully escape from Isabella's illusion? Would he face the same fate as Tyler?
Inside the illusion.
Leandro's cheeks were numb from the battering ice and snow.
His body temperature was dropping at an alarming rate!
Suddenly, he heard Isabella's voice.
But this time it was different—the voice seemed to come from the horizon, hazy and distant.
"Leandro, I'm giving you a choice now."
"For what Garth did four years ago, he must die. My mother sent me to handle this matter. My task is to have the Hope family change its head and execute Garth. As the Hope family's only hypnotist, you're a rare talent. I hope you can live and help Kennedy establish her position in the Hope family. But if you're unwilling, then whatever happens to Garth will happen to you, too."
"I hope you'll think it through."
Hearing this, Leandro sneered coldly, "Are you threatening me?"
"It's not a threat. I'm offering you a way out," Isabella said.
"I need you to give me a way out?" Leandro laughed.
When had he ever been humiliated like this?
"Don't get too cocky. It's just a simple illusion. I naturally have ways to break it!"
Leandro took a deep breath, focused his mind again, and tried his best to find a flaw in this Mirror.
"Is that so? But you might not have time," Isabella's cold, resolute voice was even colder than the ice and snow around them.
In an instant, the entire frozen illusion shook violently. The ice lake shattered, wild winds rose, mixed with large snowflakes dancing wildly.
Before Leandro could react, he saw a terrifying cold air rapidly attacking him from afar, carrying an extremely icy aura. Wherever the cold air passed, the air itself froze.
Leandro's pupils contracted sharply. Before he could understand what it was, his body instantly froze solid. Before he died, he didn't even have time to shout a single word.
Outside the illusion, Grayson pointed at Leandro, who had collapsed to the ground, his eyes full of disbelief.
He had seen it clearly—in just an instant, Leandro had turned into a block of ice.
He couldn't believe what Leandro had experienced.
Isabella looked at Leandro lying on the ground. "This was his own choice."
"..."
The elders present were all shocked.
What kind of terrifying power did Isabella possess? The Hope family's strongest elder-level hypnotist couldn't even survive a minute under her hand.
Yet she was only eighteen years old, while Leandro was already ninety!
The other elders were speechless.
They could only feel grateful that they had decisively chosen to stand with Kennedy. Otherwise, would they have met the same fate as Tyler and Leandro?
Garth looked at Isabella as if he had seen something horrifying. He stared at her intently, then, after a moment, he reacted and turned to run.
"Garth, where are you going?"
Isabella's cold gaze turned toward him, and at the same time, she raised her palm.
Garth was thrown to the ground.
When he tried to get up, he discovered in horror that his limbs seemed to be bound by heavy chains—he couldn't move.
He widened his eyes, watching Isabella walk toward him step by step. Isabella's pupils were bottomless, with a faint crimson aura spreading from the corners of her eyes.
A terrifying presence approached, and Garth felt his scalp tingle.
"What—what do you want? Let me go, let—"
Garth's words were cut short as his neck was snapped by a pair of slender, pale hands. He died with his eyes widely open.
Isabella looked at Garth's fallen body, her expression unchanged.
She paused, then turned to face the other Hope family elders. "I hope you won't make the same mistakes as Garth in the future. Anyone who harms the Powell family's interests will meet the same end."
"Ms. Powell." Grayson stepped forward solemnly. "Garth offended the Powell family and deserved his death. Rest assured, no one in the Hope family will ever do such a thing again."
Isabella's business was finished. She glanced at Kennedy. "What's left is your Hope family's own business."
Kennedy hadn't yet recovered from the fact that Garth was dead.
She was dazed for a moment, then saw Isabella already walking toward the door and quickly followed. "Isabella, let me see you out."
The Hope family elders watched Kennedy and Isabella's departing figures, then looked at the bodies on the ground, all gasping.
"So the Powell family really can't be crossed."
"Whether it's Gwyneth or Isabella, their power is too strong, and they're both ruthless."
Their wariness of the Powell family deepened.
Grayson lowered his eyes, murmuring, "I'm afraid the Fife family is in trouble next."
——
After Garth's death, Kennedy had the guards directly throw Theodosia and Orville out of the Hope family castle.
Theodosia didn't know what had happened when she saw Kennedy burst in with several guards, and her eyes widened immediately.
"Kennedy! What are you doing here?"
"What do you want?"
"You useless thing, you were thrown out, how dare you come back?"
But Kennedy couldn't be bothered to talk to her. She raised her hand. "Throw her out."
Several guards grabbed Theodosia and dragged her outside.
Theodosia struggled while shouting at the elders: "What are you standing there for? Are you just going to watch this bitch throw me out?"
"I order you to make them stop right now!"
The elders exchanged glances but said nothing.
Unable to stand Theodosia's shouting any longer, Grayson finally spoke: "Theodosia, your father offended the Powell family and has been executed by them. Kennedy is now our new family head. Your father committed terrible crimes—not only killing Eldridge but also causing Kennedy's Internal Energy to be sealed for over a decade. Theodosia, you probably don't have the face to stay in the castle anymore, do you?"
Theodosia's mind went blank.
"What?"
Was Garth dead?
Theodosia was dragged outside in a daze. Passing by a spot, she saw a body wrapped in white cloth, and her expression changed.
She rushed over frantically, pulled back the white cloth, and when she saw the body's face clearly, she was thunderstruck.
Theodosia collapsed to the ground in a deranged state, her body backing away.
"Kennedy, you just wait!"
Just then, Orville rushed out from the house.
He was holding a knife, hysterically slashing toward Kennedy.
"You bitch, I'll kill you!"
Orville's knife rapidly approached Kennedy, but in the end, Kennedy caught it with one hand.
After being crippled and seriously injured, Orville's physical condition was even worse than an ordinary person. Catching his knife was as easy for Kennedy as catching a plate.