Chapter 13

Brad had always been stoic, and he hardly ever showed emotion. However, when he saw Jean leave the dining room in tears, the look he gave Nadine was nothing short of mutinous

“Are you happy now, Nadine?” he hissed.

He stormed out of the dining room before Nadine could respond, cutting past her like a shadow.

Bitter disappointment filled Nadine as she watched him leave in a hurry.

At last, she had come to terms with the brutal reality, which was that Brad loved Jean as much as he hated Nadine.

Thus came the straw that broke the camel’s back–and broke her heart in the process too.

She wasn’t sure if heartbreak had anything to do with the hollow sensation in her, but she felt such a sharp ache in her chest that she couldn’t breathe.

It was as if an invisible weight was pinning her down. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t

seem to break free.

Nadine shoved a spoonful of food into her mouth and forced herself to chew, but no amount of food. could fill up the hole in her heart.

Evelyn was furious to see Nadine eating as if nothing had happened. “You bitch! How could you eat after

you’ve ruined dinner for everyone? What are you, a pig?

Evelyn was lashing out at Nadine after the latter had gotten Gigi punished and made Brad stalk off in anger. She wanted nothing more than to rip Nadine to shreds.

Nadine chewed the mouthful of food slowly. It was tasteless, but she forced herself to swallow it

nonetheless.

She then slowly looked up at Evelyn. “I’m not the one who’s grunting at the dinner table.”

Despite Nadine’s ever–pleasing disposition and kindness in the past, Gigi and Evelyn had never accepted her as part of the family.

It was time Nadine finally stood up to them. There was no hope for turning things around at this point,

anyway.

Evelyn’s nostrils flared when she heard Nadine’s insult. She reached for the plate next to her and tried to hurl it at Nadine, but Daniel stopped her.

He pinned the plate down and snapped, “Will you look at the state of yourself? Is this how behave as an elder? Come with me!”

you should.

Daniel grabbed

dining room. The air seemed to have grown cold, the tension in it weighing her down and

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their heads down and dared not

her mouth lifted in a wry smile, and she resumed eating her dinner slowly. She couldn’t very

don’t understand what’s

his thunderous

that flopped over his forehead and his dark

him look like the devil himself.

who was still nonchalantly

refused to come back to the house with him after he’d

had to watch her run away

entire neighborhood but found no trace of Jean anywhere. Defeated, he went back to the

Nadine dining nonchalantly. He stormed up to her and grabbed her

herself pinned to the soft mattress of the large bed before she could even respond. Her slender flame swayed as the mattress

chest.

frame hovered above her, casting

delicate neck as he growled, “Why do you insist on picking

furious that Nadine had kicked up such a fuss

Nadine was in the wrong

like she used to, none of this

felt his cold fingers tighten around her throat. It felt like his vise–like grip was tightening around her heart, too, threatening to squeeze

her hollow gaze full of disappointment. She finally realized that she would always be the villain in Brad’s narrative, all because he did not love her as he

her of the desire to fight

said in resignation, “If killing

do it–and

on the outside, but

clothing.

form. But once he

that which irked him.

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treasured Jean, and he would be damned if he did not punish Nadine for hurting her. He wouldn’t care that Nadine hadn’t been at fault;

point in struggling. She might as well

look on her face. It was as if she didn’t

growled. She was being reckless

the bed and did not budge. She didn’t even open her eyes as she asked,

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