hapter 369 The Final Blow

Third Person POV

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+8 Pearls

Aubrey’s words were like a poisoned dagger, stabbing straight into Aurelia’s most tender spot.

The color drained from her face; her lips trembled.

No matter how fallen she was now, she hadn’t expected to be humiliated by being told she must eat leftovers. Even Jax frowned in disapproval. “Aubrey! That’s too much!”

Aubrey merely toyed with the lamb chop on her plate with a fork, her voice light as a breeze. “When I was little and Dad wasn’t home, I couldn’t sit at the table. I always ate the scraps Aurelia and Bailey left behind. Why can I eat, but she can’t?”

it hit

disbelief.

turned the fork in her hand. “Didn’t? Why did I make you go out to wash the carpet yesterday? Because you

I didn’t, Jax, I really didn’t…

fright. Jax leapt

I was away you treated Aubrey like that? After all the trust I


but once the truth

of reality: in just two years she had fallen from unquestioned mistress to a pitiful woman who

hold back–she knew she should endure–but watching Jax leave and seeing the elegant dinner she had prepared all afternoon become

sipped her

strange person,” she said evenly, cold as ice even while Aurelia raged like a

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