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 and exquisite

at the transformed young lady in the mirror, she laughed to herself, and thought that she

her stepmother had said that it looked nice on her. But did it really look nice? Yelena was just afraid that Calista

there was half a bowl of leftover pasta

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help but laugh pitcously at herself. What sort of life did she use to lead, she thought, a where she couldn’t even get

was awful, but she thought it

even allowed to sit at the terrible things she ate at home. Wh table. The things she had to eat in a dark corner were possibly even

life

But now she knew that if she ate this without saying a word, what she would

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 dressed up, anxiously waiting for someone to

pretended not to see Calista and continued to mind their own

of food in her hands and

for her daughter! Earlier Quincy had phoned her and said. the Fairchilds would continue to investigate what happened the night before and would definitely force the two men to tell the truth. Yelena was nearly driven mad with worries, so she had invited someone

appear in front of her

o furious!

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

coldly, “Oh look who we have here, isn’t this the Ms. Calista of the Staffords? You were

had combed her fringe up, and was still wearing last night’s dress from the Fairchilds. She looked completely different and Yelena’s

to comb all your hair up! You’re dressed so provocatively at such a young age, who are

the sofa and listened to

what she was in public, and Caliser calmly. Yelena always behaved very differently at home

than this

the Ms. Calista of the Stafford family and I have to eat this

tone of voice shocked the servants busying themselves in the living room. But none of them panicked because in this house, Calista’s words were never

her mood improved instantly. “Why? Can’t eat this? There are

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were very high and they made her look mean when she smiled.

you’re an uncultured swine! So you think you’ve got

to eat it! Otherwise forget about having food to eat from now

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