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.

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

she laughed to herself, and thought that she didn’t look too bad

fringe because it got into her 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?

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

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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

awful, but she thought it was delicious

sit at the terrible things she ate at home. Wh table. The things she had to eat in

life

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 get in return was not the reputation of being humble and content,

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 dressed up, anxiously

pretended not to see Calista and continued

food in her hands and

was anxiously trying to settle matters 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 at this time made her so

o furious!

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

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

up! You’re dressed so provocatively at such a young age,

the sofa

in public, and Caliser calmly. Yelena

heard things way worse than this when she was younger.

as she turned the bowl in her hands. “Mrs. Fairchild, is my 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

living room. But none of them panicked because in this

that Calista ignored 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

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high and they made her look mean when she smiled.

you think you’ve

it! Otherwise forget about having food to eat from now

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