Chapter 13 The First Strike Back

Calista finished talking and loosed her grip. Quincy felt her legs go weak and she collapsed onto the

floor.

Her face was all white, and when she looked back up at Calista, she suddenly felt fear in her heart.

When she thought about the police and what the Fairchilds could do, she became terribly anxious and didn’t say any more, instead escaping up the stairs.

Calista originally intended to go back to her own room, but then she suddenly smelled something. delicious in the kitchen and realized that she hadn’t eaten much at Fairchild Manor earlier, plus she went through so much the night before and she was starving now. She made a turn towards the kitchen and saw two maids preparing snacks for tea.

“I’m hungry.” Calista leaned against the door and suddenly spoke, startling the two maids who were chatting with each other. She didn’t wait for their response and continued, “Prepare some food and send it to my room.”

Quincy had told all the servants to leave the living room earlier, so nobody saw how Calista treated

gone mad. Quincy earlier. So when they heard her give instructions like this, they all thought she had Unfortunately she’ turned and left before they could even react, and they missed their chance to mock

her.

One of the maids threw her gloves on the kitchen top and said angrily, “Can’t she see that we’re very busy? Does she really think she’s the Ms. Calista now?

The older maid replied, “What does it matter? Isn’t there a bit of food leftover from lunch? Just pour a bit of soy sauce on it and send it upstairs. She eats anything anyway.”

She said this mockingly, because Calista of the past never dared to be picky about her food.

Of course Calista had no idea what they were talking about downstairs because she was looking at herself in the mirror, feeling rather strange.

She was still young and tender at eighteen, and even though her thick fringe covered half her face, she still looked fairly sweet.

hair back and tied it into a high ponytail, revealing her clean forehead

in the mirror, she laughed to herself, and thought that

change her hairstyle because her stepmother had said that it looked nice on her. But

nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover pasta with some baked beans and tomato sauce left on

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lead, she thought, a where she couldn’t even get to eat warm food. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet

food was awful, but

The things she had to eat in a dark corner were possibly even worse than what the security guard’s

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self, she would have happily eaten everything because she was hungry. But now she knew that if she ate this without saying a word, what she would

picked up the bowl and went downstairs and saw that the living room was filled with delicious treats and a fresh cup of Ceylon tea. It seemed like Yelena had just returned home and was all

Calista and continued

in

definitely force the two men to tell the truth. Yelena

Calista appear in front of her at

o furious!

in front of me so boldly? Does she think she is

a finely plucked eyebrow and laughed coldly, “Oh look who we have here, isn’t this the Ms. Calista of the Staffords? You were so amazing last night! Why, are you here to continue putting on

and was still wearing last night’s dress from the

so provocatively at such a

by the sofa and listened

Caliser calmly. Yelena always

way worse than this when she was younger.

I have to eat this sort

shocked the servants busying themselves in the living room. But none of them panicked because in

But when she saw the food in Calista’s bowl, her mood improved instantly. “Why? Can’t eat this? There are many out there with no food to

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and they made her look mean when she smiled.

the day you’re an uncultured swine! So you think

eat this, you have to eat it! Otherwise forget about

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