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..

the glass from her hand, “Cut out this

own business. Who do you think you are?” she

harsh gulps, coughing as tears welled up in

her out, but

you care about me at all, stay and drink with me. My heart aches, the alcohol numbs the

his teeth, “Fine,

for shot, his eyes betraying the affection he harbored for

even as he knew her heart pined for Howard, following her

the broken–hearted.”

“Drink up.”

gaze on Ryan became blurred

Howard’s face

to see me. That bitch Gwendolyn, always clinging to you. She’s a whore,” she

limbs wrapping around his

kiss.

into a frenzy, his heart

Chapter 300

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