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..

hand, “Cut out this nonsense. Howard

your own business. Who do you think

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

tried to lead her out, but Selina resisted, sobbing over her wretched

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

his teeth, “Fine, I’ll stay.”

for shot, his

carried a torch for Selina for years, even as he knew her heart pined for Howard, following her

broken–hearted.” they toasted.

“Drink up.”

the influence, Selina’s gaze on Ryan became blurred and doubled.

face in

whore,” she slurred, “I’ve seen her in that little

arms, her pale limbs wrapping around his

kiss.

him into a frenzy, his

Chapter 300

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