Rebecca POV:

Belle's eyes glistened with tears, "It's really lost!"

Still unaware that the truth had been revealed, she stubbornly denied deliberately setting me up.

"Slap!" Bel received another slap on the face, "And you lied, how can you joke with someone's reputation? What you're doing is discrediting the family, I'm going to tell my father that they're the ones who've been too indulgent and let you get so cocky, sooner or later, you'll get the whole family killed!"

Belle blushed white, but still wouldn't admit that she had lied, straining her neck and glaring at Albert, "I'm not lying, why would you rather believe an outsider than me. She...