Chapter 9

Jolene smiled playfully, “Maybe I’m allergic to my new foundation. I was feeling some discomfort, so I just removed my makeup.”

Since he was busy with work, he didn’t pry any longer. And so the matter was resolved.

She felt her shoulders slump with relief.

Getting slapped in the face was no big deal. She already got it over with anyway.

However, if Mrs. Evert somehow found out, it would become a more serious problem.

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She needed to stomp out the flame before it grew into a blazing wildfire.

Once her afternoon freed up, she took the time to touch up her makeup.

After all, she had a date to get to in the evening. She knew that Mrs. Evert wouldn’t be happy if she showed up not looking her best.

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She was just a lowly slave on the social ladder, and she had many masters to serve.

Halfway through her makeup routine, she received a call from her mother.

Tucking her phone between her shoulder and her ear, she continued to retrace her eyeliner. “Mom, did you sleep well last night?”

her mother opened her mouth, only a choked

came out.

down her eyeliner. Her throat tightened as she

nasally and thick. “It’s just a little

need to move out. I’ll find you a lawyer to help you get a divorce. Why should

not a bad person,” her mother cried out. “He just has an interesting personality. And he provided for both

am grateful that he raised us. That’s why I’m paying him back

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sleep with whoever he wants to. So why does he still choose to

her, she could never sit still when it

she spoke, her voice getting smaller

for what happened to her mother.

smaller: “can you give me this month’s living

gone

likes to do…”

demand that her stepfather ask her himself.

of it

so she had to rein

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say, “Mom, I don’t want to keep hearing that he’s been hitting you. Even if you keep enduring your treatment, I won’t be able to. It’s only a matter of time before I take up a knife and take matters into my own hands one

struggling to catch her breath between her cries. “Jolene, please don’t talk like that. My heart’s going to break if I hear anymore. He doesn’t do it that often. He just has

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