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

mirror, she laughed to herself, and thought that she didn’t look too bad at all.

her hairstyle because her stepmother had said

was nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover pasta with some baked

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

canteen food was awful, but she thought it was

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

life

have happily eaten everything because she was hungry. But now 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

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

see Calista and continued to mind their own business. Calista

in her hands and walked right

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

her

o furious!

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

the Ms. Calista of the Staffords? You were so

last night’s dress from the Fairchilds. She looked completely

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

by the sofa and listened

in public, and Caliser calmly. Yelena

things way worse than this when she

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

themselves in the living room. But

improved instantly. “Why? Can’t eat this? There are many out there with no food to eat

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and they made her look mean when

the end of the day you’re an uncultured swine! So you think you’ve got wings

to eat this, you have to eat it! Otherwise

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