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.

tied it into a high ponytail, revealing

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

got into her eyes, but she didn’t dare to change her hairstyle because her stepmother had said that it

someone knocked on the door. When Calista opened the door, there was nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover pasta with some baked beans and tomato sauce left on

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at herself. What sort of life did she use to lead, she thought, a where she couldn’t even get to eat warm food. sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Findɴovel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access

the school canteen food was awful, but

father wasn’t home, she wasn’t 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 worse than what the security guard’s dog

life

a word,

with delicious treats and a fresh cup of Ceylon tea. It seemed like Yelena had just returned home and was all dressed up,

not to see Calista and continued to mind their

Yelena. the bowl of food in her hands and walked right up

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 who could help to

appear in front of her at this

o furious!

of

here, isn’t this the Ms. Calista of the

and was still wearing last night’s dress from the Fairchilds. She looked

to comb all your hair up! You’re dressed so provocatively at

sofa and listened to

and Caliser calmly. Yelena always

worse than this when she was younger.

father on the verge of bankruptcy? I’m the Ms. 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, just fire some of

shocked the servants busying themselves in the living room. But none

her words and became even angrier. 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 to be

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high and they made her

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

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

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