Chapter 63.5 – An Eye for an Eye
CA, LA, inside an apartment.
Four people were inside a living room. Three of them sat on the couch, and one on a sofa across them.
However, the three were anything but relaxed at the moment.
"Who the hell are you!" - Yelled a middle-aged woman in a shrill voice.
"Let us go, this is against the law!" - A middle-aged man said.
"Wait until I call my boyfriend about this!" - A pretty young woman with a wild hairstyle, piercings, and tattoos threatened.
Although the three were not tied up, they couldn't move because of a hypnotic command.
Tess, sitting in front of them, felt both amused and saddened.
"You don't recognize me, do you? After all these years." - Tess pursed her lips.
"W-What are you talking about?!" - The woman was taken aback.
"We don't know you." - The man also frowned.
"Wait... Tess?!" - The young woman exclaimed.
"Tess?! That fat and ugly Tess?! My niece?!" - The woman exclaimed in shock.
"But she is..." - The man subconsciously looked at Tess up and down, checking out her bombshell of a body, focusing on her assets.
The next moment...
Wham* Crack*
"Gah... Mah Noze..." - The man cried, blood dripping from his now-broken nose.
"That's for looking at me lecherously AGAIN, Uncle Finn." - Tess retracted her hand, unamused.
"Dammit, Finn! Can't you hold it in your goddamn pants?!" - The middle-aged woman looked at her husband in disgust.
The young woman didn't say anything, but she gave a disgusted look at her father.
Finn, being looked at like that, lowered his head.
"So... Perhaps you are wondering why I gathered you all here today... or perhaps you can already guess. What say you, Madilyn?" - Tess narrowed her eyes and glanced at the young woman.
Madilyn shook.
"P-Please, don't kill me! I was stupid back then! I posted those photos as a silly joke!" - The young woman implored, cold sweat dripping from her forehead.
"And all those times you laughed at me for being fat and ugly and took your friends to 'watch the freak.' as if I was an animal in a petting zoo. Do you know I almost committed suicide because of you?" - Tess pursed her lips.
"I-I'm sorry, okay?! I didn't think you would become suicidal!" - Madilyn's eyes teared.
"Are you? Weren't you the one who told me - 'I would commit suicide if I were as ugly as you, you fat monster!' on multiple occasions?" - Tess said while perfectly copying Madilyn's voice.
"I... I..." - Madilyn's voice got stuck in her throat.
Tess ignored her and looked at her biological aunt, the middle-aged woman.
"Well, Aunt Joselyn?" - Tess narrowed her eyes.
The aunt, feeling the pressure, cracked.
"Okay, I admit it! I misused the money your parents left you and used it to improve the quality of life of my family, okay?! But I also improved your quality of life!" - Joselyn said, trying to avert some of the guilt.
"Did you? You barely bought me junk food to eat and second-hand computers and phones while you and your family enjoyed quality cuisine and products out of my inheritance money. You even had the gall to use part of it to buy a deluxe car and luxury furniture. Two million dollars. Two, fucking, million. I was lucky a million was left when I moved away to Washington." - Tess said resentfully.
"I... I raised your fat ass for eight years instead of my dead sister! I deserved that money!" - Joselyn screamed like a crazed shrew.
"Raised me? I was your prisoner and piggybank. I even had to do my laundry and clean my room when I entered your shitty house. You were worse than an orphanage. I bet you didn't spend more than $100,000 for my entire stay in your damn house, with most of it being on low-quality junk food." - Tess spat.
"You... You ungrateful bitch! I should have never adopted you from that whore of a mother—Mmmph*!!!"
The next moment, Tess grabbed Joselyn's mouth.
"You may curse me, but never, EVER, curse my mother with your unworthy mouth. No... I think you don't deserve that mouth. It always sickened me. That's probably why my mother only visited twice in ten years. I should do a favor to this world so you may never talk again." - Tess said with a deadpan face.
Under the horrified eyes of Joselyn, Tess clenched her powerful transhuman hands.
Crack*
"MMMMM!!!!" - Joselyn screamed as her jaw cracked under the pressure.
"Joshelyn!" "Mom!" - Finn and Madilyn called out in despair.
Tess let go of Joselyn and stared daggers at her uncle.
"Don't worry, I still didn't forget you, dear uncle." - Tess narrowed her eyes at the last target.
"..." - Finn stayed silent, perhaps too embarrassed to admit it.
"Oh, remaining silent, are we? How about I remind you of the time I was a young girl? Before the accident, I was a beautiful and promising child actor, even receiving contract offers to star in reality shows, and you turned out to be one of my secret fans. One fateful day, after my parents died, I was adopted by this shitty family, scarred and wounded. You, being the closet pedophile you are, couldn't keep it in your pants." - Tess snarled.
Finn's eyes wandered around the room, trying to avoid Tess's piercing gaze.
"... Dad?" - Madilyn was horrified as she looked at her father.
Joselyn, however, was not too surprised. She was more focused on the pain she was feeling.
"Oh, yeah. My aunt knew about it but didn't care. Or perhaps she wanted me to suffer. She likely took her jealousy against my mom, who was more successful than her in every way, on me, but what do I know? I'm not her psychologist." - Tess said with pursed lips.
The glare Joselyn gave, however, verified Tess's words.
Madilyn squinted her eyes at her mother in equal disgust.
"Well, back to the subject." - Tess looked at Finn.
"A year after getting adopted, you started molesting me and even had me lick your... ugh... I was barely eleven, ELEVEN! I didn't have my first period yet, you sick pedophile! I was so scared I started stress-eating, and my skin-grafting got rejected, causing me to grow fat and ugly! Ironically, that saved me from you, you sick sexual predator." - Tess said with pure hate.
Finn didn't say anything, his eyes looking around the room as if looking for a hole to bury himself in.
Joselyn didn't comment on it, but Madilyn looked at her father in disgust.
"Hmph. Oh, right. He also had sex with underaged Mexican prostitutes using MY money, right? From which gang are they... Oh, right, the Crips. By the way, your boyfriend is a Chico, right, Madilyn? The son of the gang leader?" - Tess glanced at her.
"..." - Madilyn remained silent, but that confirmed her answer.
"Right... You had plenty of fun, right? Using your boyfriend's name to do whatever you wanted, often bullying other women. I wonder what would happen if you became ugly." - Tess asked.
"N-No, Please! Don't disfigure me!" - Madilyn frantically shook her head.
"Oh, no worries. I am not THAT cruel. I will only make you fat." - Tess approached Madilyn and tapped her head.
Madilyn didn't feel anything, but a premonition told her that things were not so simple.
"W-What did you do?" - Madilyn asked in fear.
"I just changed your body's behavior. It will become far easier for you to gain weight. Within several months, you will become obese and have a taste of your own medicine. But no worries, I will provide money for you so you can live like a good shut-in. What a good cousin I am." - Tess smirked and looked at Joselyn.
"And you... You will soon become inexplicably poor, living by the penny. A homeless bum. You took my money, so now you will have your money taken." - Tess smiled as Joselyn shook with hate.
And then she turned to look at Finn.
"As for you... I think I'll let the authorities handle you. You will spend a LONG time in prison... Oh, and I'll also tip the prisoners about you being a child molester and pedophile. I hear they get special attention." - Tess deviously smiled.
"Y-You can't do this to me! They will kill me!" - Finn cried.
"Not my problem. Now, let's delete your memories of me..." - Tess said as her eyes glowed.
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Outside the apartment complex...
Tess exited the building with Iver and Zhu Li waiting in a limo outside.
"Done?" - He asked.
"Done. I will have to trouble Filip a bit." - Tess said with a satisfied look.
"Hm. I am still surprised you didn't straight-out kill them." - Iver said.
"Well, you know the saying. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. It is much more satisfying that way." - Tess smiled.
"I'm glad it worked out for you." - Zhu Li smiled too.
"So, lunch?" - Iver asked.
"Lunch it is." - Tess smiled back.
"It's decided then. Driver, take us somewhere nice." - Iver said to the driver and hugged the waist of both girls.
"You got it, boss." - The driver replied.
And so they drove away.