Chapter 2011

Lucinda wasted no time in following.

However, before she could catch up, Nala triggered a switch on the wall.

Instantly, a massive metal cage descended, trapping them both.

Lucinda, unfazed, inquired, “What are you planning this time?”

Nala’s smile was innocent yet her intentions were far from it.

She tipped over an oil can, spilling its contents across the floor.

Facing Lucinda, her voice was cold.

“Being taken back to the Simmons family by you is a fate worse than death.

You’d never let me go.

So, dying together seems preferable, don’t you think?”

Lucinda’s composure didn’t waver.

“If I don’t step out within ten minutes, it’s not just me who is at risk.

Danilo, who’s out there trying to save you, will never leave Cadiered if Nathan gets wind of this,” Lucinda stated.

Appearing nonchalant, Nala toyed with a lighter.

“Danilo never loved me.

If Nathan ends him, he has only his own greed to blame.

We were just using each other.

Lucinda eyed the spreading oil warily, stepping back to avoid it.

was the truth about my mother’s death

her head, Nala replied, “No,

was

her over the edge was

she adored,

she

was young,

a small villa for

caught our father and my mother together, confronted him, and the shock triggered her

She laughed even louder.

took me to the hospital in secret

to ask for her

oxygen mask

into the Simmons family, and then I’d

Your father found out.

just cried and pretended

used all his influence to cover it

from a prestigious university, over my mother, who had no

remained the illegitimate

ironic, isn’t it? My mother had a

carried the guilt of your mother’s

saved Graham when he was in

because he felt

But he never knew.

didn’t know your mother

in shock as her

old were you then? Your mother was such

she end up raising someone

seemed some people were inherently evil, beyond

bare, was something Lucinda had never

wish I could rip out your heart to see if

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