From Heartbreak to Happily Ever After

Chapter 789

Lara stiffened at those words.

Debra added, “You’re about my age. The only reason Drake keeps you around isn’t for your meticulous nature, but for some other value you can provide. Ever since I mentioned Conrad, your expression has been a telltale sign. Drake can’t possibly entrust you with such a high position if you can’t control her emotions.”

“I…” Lara bit her lip, unable to form a counterargument.

Debra leaned in. “Yvonne might be Miss Sharp now, but she’s just an illegitimate child. For years, she’s used sex to benefit both the Sharps and Drake. But Drake is worried that Yvonne would slip out of his control, so he keeps you close, right?”

Debra’s suspicion. Debra asked,

approached her, keeping her as his mistress. But when she became

eyes, and she continued with resentment, “When I was ten, Mrs. Sharp discovered our existence. Out of spite, she had my mother beaten to death. I

next?” Debra asked, feeling

it absurd? In my senior year of high school, there was a charity gala where scholarship students like me were paraded by the so–called philanthropists. I

I couldn’t forget those voracious eyes. All the orphans, boys and girls, were locked in a room–afterward. Conrad picked my best friend, Michelle, and had her dragged into

outside, Michelle’s body fell off and landed right in front of us. Her limbs were shattered. Blood splattered all over Drake and me. And you know what

added, “Later, I discovered that Drake had known who I was