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.

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

in the mirror, she laughed to herself, and thought

eyes, but she didn’t dare to change her hairstyle because her stepmother had said that it looked nice on her. But did it really look nice? Yelena was just afraid that Calista

the door. When Calista opened the door, there was nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover pasta

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to lead, she thought, a where she couldn’t even get to eat

said the school canteen food was awful, but she

even allowed to sit at the terrible things she ate at home. Wh table. The things she

life

she knew that if she ate this without saying a word, what she would get in return was not the reputation of being humble and content, instead she would be mocked at for being lowly

a fresh cup of Ceylon tea. It seemed like Yelena had just returned home and was all dressed up, anxiously waiting for

to see Calista and continued to mind their own business. Calista

food in

force the two

in front of her at this time made her so

o furious!

lucky that I don’t kill her. How dare she appear in front of me so boldly? Does she think she is

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 this

last night’s dress from the Fairchilds.

up! You’re dressed so provocatively at

sofa and

calmly. Yelena always behaved very differently at home

heard things way worse than

Calista of the Stafford family and I have to eat this sort of cr*p? If we’re really so poor, then we shouldn’t hire so many servants to pretend we’re still rich,

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

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 eat you know? Who are you? You’re lucky to even have food to eat, and you still want

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were very high and they made her look mean when she

day you’re an uncultured swine! So you think you’ve got wings to fly now huh? Even if

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

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