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.

girl would gamble her innocence in

took a few slaps for Zoey to understand that she could never escape

ruined by Belinda

was the

of

taken to the police station, her face was calm; she thought

Mia.

People in jail have been briefed beforehand and, led by a queen

daily.

floor, she couldn't help

she should never have been

hospital room, Mia continued to weep and plead Fitch to swear not to be with

by his

Zoey didn't have

paling,

to her. She

hate her so much, yet you'd lend her

Zoey; it made

down,

I staged this whole thing? You think I'd joke with my own honor? What is Zoey?

and said coldly as

vent your anger. You're my sister,

cameras everywhere."

weak, and her head was

she forget? Fitch was so methodical, and

that Zoey

given it to her willingly; her claim didn't hold

fell silent,

Sharon spoke up.

your

is because she's my sister

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