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."

of complex emotion darted through Linda's eyes-maybe sadness, maybe relief. But all these emotions were fleeting. When she faced Chloe

You know how my mother is. I've been abused and tormented since I was little and never had a single good day. The luckiest thing that happened in my life was meeting you during

her eyes

reached out to me, pulling me out of

why Linda was bringing

bullying and venting. The school was like a cruel

it was the day Linda didn't show up for school, and Chloe accompanied a teacher on

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

Linda's parents were arguing.

was cursing

hurling curses and humiliations, venomous to the

sat in a wheelchair, lifeless, like the living dead. Everything

numbly tidying up, as if all this

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

always save you, no matter what. I want you

when she heard that. She could still

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