Watching Isla fume and accuse her, Bianca's face twisted into wounded innocence. "Dad, look she's lying about me again. I never even crossed paths with that Long person she offended."
Isla didn't bother denying that part she had, in fact, been the one who'd provoked the actual assault.
What Isla didn't know was that after learning about the earlier incident, Bianca had engineered this whole "k********g" herself never expecting the men to actually treat her roughly as a real hostage instead of a willing accomplice.
She tried to burn Isla down and got scorched in the process.
"Then I'm curious if you were genuinely a hostage, why did you help them subdue me? And why didn't your family just call the police from the start?" Isla's question landed hard, leaving both Richard and Bianca momen
