Chapter 1012:

Kelsey added, “Yes, no matter who ends up leading the Hinks family, you will never have to worry about comfort. We made sure of that.”

“Mom, enough,” Alethea murmured, and without warning, she leaned across the table and wrapped her arms tightly around Kelsey.

“I just want you to be healthy. That is all I care about.” She clung to her like a frightened child, desperate to shut out the storm of words still echoing in her ears. Her grip tightened, as though she could physically ward off the weight of everything unsaid.

But no one saw the flicker of hatred that flared in her eyes—quick as lightning, and just as fierce.

than ten years. You say I am no different from your own blood, yet all you are giving me

into a heavy silence. Kelsey and Alethea’s emotional exchange hung in the

turned—every gaze

front of her. But the silence around her shifted, and she could

composed smile. “Do not look at me like that,”

their expressions

but how people treat me. You have all treated me well. That is what I

never once taken their love for granted. She had clutched it like something sacred. Every smile, every kindness—they had meant the world to

𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙩: g𝗮𝗅𝗇𝗈𝗏𝗲𝗅𝘀꞉𝗰𝗼𝗺

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