Chapter 300

In the bustling corner of Bayridge City, the din of a crowded bar reverberated through the night. Selina lifted her glass, knocking back one shot after another.

Her chosen poison to drown the sorrows that clawed at her pride, the unbearable truth of her lineage.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she drank, her heart a storm of despair and rage.

Frantically, she dialed Howard’s number on her phone, only to be met with the incessant beep of a busy signal. Every avenue to reach him had been coldly blocked, and he was gone from her life.

“Howard, you heartless jerk.”

Was their childhood bond, their near marriage, all for nothing?

If not for Gwendolyn, it should have been her wrapped in Howard’s loving embrace. Hatred for Gwendolyn seethed within her, hatred for Gwendolyn’s very existence, for herself not being the true daughter of the esteemed Magnolia family.

A destructive impulse to tear down the world itself bubbled up inside her.

“Selina.” Ryan burst into the bar, spotting her in her drunken haze, mercilessly downing her drink..

glass from her hand, “Cut out this nonsense. Howard isn’t

business. Who do you think you are?”

a bottle, she took several harsh gulps, coughing as tears welled up in her

out, but Selina resisted, sobbing over her wretched fate, over Howard’s ruthlessness.

at all, stay and drink with me. My heart aches, the alcohol numbs the pain,” she cried out, her

his teeth, “Fine, I’ll stay.”

his eyes

years, even as he knew her heart pined for Howard, following her around like a

the broken–hearted.”

“Drink up.”

the influence, Selina’s gaze on Ryan became

Howard’s face in

a whore,” she slurred, “I’ve seen

wrapping around his neck, her lips seeking his in a

kiss.

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Chapter 300

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