She looked down, fighting the pain in her fingers and holding on.

Mia stood beside her, alternating between cursing and whispering, each word a hunting echo of the assault she had suffered.

Zoey didn't respond until Mia spat that she deserved to die. She shot back, "What if I really died?"

She was indeed tired of living; life never seemed to shine bright.

She was always abandoned, anyway. If her life could get these people off her back, then they could take it.

But Mia retorted, "Don't you think dying will be that easy for you. Just you wait!"

Zoey knew Mia was plotting something new, but she didn't know what would happen until Sharon showed up and slapped her

without hesitation.

That's when she grasped Mia's tactics.

She had always felt Mia was cut from the scloth as Belinda, and now she felt it more deeply than ever.

Mia had recorded their conversation on Zoey's phone—it was mostly about Mia's own breakdown, and she also confessed the

assault she endured.

Zoey hadn't said much, but to those unaware of the context, it seemed she had pushed Mia to the edge by forcing her to reveal

her trauma.

The recording circulated from Zoey's phone, leaving her defenseless.

Once again she was defenseless, just like when Belinda had framed her.

No one would believe a mother could schagainst her daughter to such an extent.

would gamble

slaps for Zoey to understand that she could

was being ruined by Belinda and

the one being

just destroyed, but devoid of even a shred

calm; she thought maybe staying in

Mia.

People in jail have been briefed

daily.

cold floor, she couldn't help

realized that she should never have been

to weep and plead Fitch to swear not

by his

Zoey didn't have

stiffened, her face paling, but she quickly

her. She said

so much, yet you'd lend

made no sense she'd

looked down,

I'd joke with my own honor? What is

temples, and said coldly as

You're my sister, I'm on your side, but don't overdo it. My villa

cameras everywhere."

felt weak, and her

Fitch was so methodical, and

he'd see that Zoey never touched the

have given it to her

fell silent, shaking with

Sharon spoke up.

is your sister,

is because she's my sister that

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