Reborn Omega: Avenge Herself Like an Alpha

Chapter 300 What Lies Beneath

Third Person POV

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Aubrey spoke with the same calm detachment throughout. Even when she admitted that, at thirteen or fourteen, she had wanted to kill Aurelia, her tone never wavered.

Wemble’s brows drew together slightly, but soon smoothed as he put on his gentle smile again.

He asked a question that seemed almost trivial. “So, did you ever rent that dress?”

Aubrey’s lips curved. “No.”

“Why not?”

“Because the money humiliated me. I didn’t even go to the dance. I exchanged the nine hundred for coins and skipped them across the lake…”

Wemble blinked in surprise. Aubrey smiled faintly, and in her eyes a glimmer of starlight seemed to flash. “Surprised? But that’s when I learned how to skip stones. The ripples spreading across the moonlit water… it was beautiful.”

Still, the thought pricked at him: that night by the lake, had she been smiling? Or crying? The image tugged at him until something sharp twisted in his chest.

“And now? Do you still

warmth had lingered in her expression vanished. The instant she

lips tilted with faint disdain, yet her words seemed

it.

immediately hurried over. “Well, Aubrey?

and nodded, “Good. Mr.

“That’s wonderful…”

you feel?”

most important

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own, so of course I’ve always treated you like mine… Go

“Yes.”

up inside her, a warmth she rarely knew. When it came to the love of a

In such a sprawling estate,

it go?”

replied. “Perfect timing–you came back. Let’s go hear from him together,