Chapter 68 Only He Can Soothe Me

Charles‘ POV

“I want Bailey destroyed!”

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When she said it, Aubrey’s eyes burned with two ghostly blue flames–like hellfire born of hatred. Cold. Unforgiving.

I didn’t understand. I couldn’t understand what it was she hated so much. Bailey was only seventeen. What could she possibly have done that was so unforgivable?

“Aubrey, you’re being extreme! Even if Bailey did something wrong, it was probably just sibling teasing taken too far. You didn’t have to go this far!”

“Sisterly teasing?” Aubrey let out a laugh, sharp and cold, as if she’d just heard the joke of the century. “OF course. In your eyes, she’s the perfect little sister–everything she does is innocent, harmless, just a spoiled child’s mistake, right?”

Her eyes blazed brighter, voice laced with contempt. “In that case, why are you wasting time here? Go back and comfort your poor, mistreated little sister. Tell her her dear big brother Charles will always believe in her innocence!”

“You-!”

A surge of anger, tangled with indescribable disappointment, rose violently to my head. My vision. blackened at the edges.

She was the one who’d ruined everything, and yet she stood here, unrepentant, accusing me of betrayal!

the woman I’d liked so deeply was turning out to be such a cold–blooded, manipulative


forced down the fury and tried to reason with her. “Aubrey, you’ve gone

actually laughed. “Mr. Charles, are you trying to be

I invite everyone to that party? Was it me who hired the doctor? Was I the one who spiked the drinks? Or who

word. Her eyes were glacial,

doting father who’ll investigate the truth. I don’t have a mother to protect me from scandal. If I’d been the one

have done everything in my power to protect you! I’d find the truth, no matter what it cost. I’d never let that

second those words left

flame within them flickered for just a breath. The sharp, biting

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wasn’t

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you… once you saw through it, you could’ve just escaped. Why go

Aubrey gave me one long

definitely never

and walked

words–sharp, bitter, final–stabbed deep into my chest.

I told myself I

matter how much I liked Aubrey, I couldn’t throw away my sense of

this. Bailey had to be innocent. And

Aubrey’s POV

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