Chapter 108



However, she had no interest in witnessing the cheerful scene on the stage. She decided to head to the lounge.

Halfway up the stairs, she heard footsteps behind her. "Chloe, so this is where you've been hiding."

Chloe turned around, and there, climbing the stairs was the last person she wanted to see-Linda.

Linda had just been accepted as the goddaughter of the Meadows family. Such "good news," how could she resist sharing it?

In no time, Linda was standing right in front of Chloe, with just one step separating them.

Linda wore her usual innocent, cautious expression. "Chloe, the Meadows family has taken me in as their goddaughter. You're not upset, are you?"

Chloe nearly chuckled at the sight of Linda's innocent yet shameless face. From the higher step, she looked down at Linda. "Linda, drop the innocent act. It's making me sick."

relief. But all these emotions were fleeting.

tormented since I was little and never had a single good day. The luckiest

her eyes shimmering with tears, seemingly

High School. Everyone looked down on me, bullied me, harassed me. It was you who reached out to me, pulling me out of the inferno. When I was attacked, you were like a shield in front

furrowed. She couldn't understand why Linda was bringing all

Linda said. Linda was always alone, always walking with her head down always the target of bullying and venting.

Maybe it was the day Linda didn't show up for school,

a slum, they found Linda's home. It's a house so dilapidated it couldn't be worse, with not a single decent

Linda's parents were arguing.

cursing at

and humiliations, venomous to the

the living dead. Everything in the house that could be smashed

numbly tidying

found out the reason Linda hadn't gone to school that day. Jake, in his wheelchair, had stopped in the middle of

don't try that again. I'll always save you, no matter what. I want you to live;

her spine when she

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