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..

from her hand, “Cut out this

do you think you are?”

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

tossed the bottle aside and tried to lead her out, but Selina resisted, sobbing over her wretched fate, over Howard’s ruthlessness.

heart aches, the alcohol numbs the pain,” she cried

teeth, “Fine, I’ll

her madness, matching her shot for shot, his eyes betraying the affection he harbored for her.

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

the broken–hearted.”

“Drink up.”

gaze on

face in his.

to you. She’s a whore,” she slurred, “I’ve seen her in that little slip

wrapping around his neck, her lips

kiss.

skilled hands worked him into a

Chapter 300

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