Chapter 31

I felt as if I had just heard the joke of the century-Jack made me so angry that I almost laughed.

He lounged on the couch, clouds of smoke swirling around him. Initially, he seemed to be deep in thought. Then, he made up his mind.

He took a long drag of his cigarette and blew out a thick ting of smoke. His eyes bore into me, cold and calculating

"Remember, my blood runs through your veins, and you carry the Wiley name. It's about time you pulled your weight around here.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Surely you're not expecting me to hold your hand and guide you through this!"

It dawned on me that he really did see me as something that could be bought and sold at will. couldn't help but wonder if I was nothing more than a plaything to him.

Aburninganger rose in my chest. I should've known that I didn't have a home anymore. I lost everything the moment my parents got divorced.

daughter and wife. I couldn't call my mother's place home either because there was no room

Jack didn't raise me out of love he was simply grooming me as a pan,

was wealth.

to think I could still find warmth in this family. I chuckled dryly, realizing that the three

years now felt like

down and fallen in love early in my previous life because

her mistakes? Did you raise me all these years just to marry me off to the Grayson family, or, if that didn't work out, to the Tyler family? Am I nothing more

out his cigarette and glared at me, "Who do you think you are talking to me like that? You've got some

genuinely furious, possibly because his deal had

on protecting her, let her negotiate the deal I'm not going to clean up the

suffocated. I couldn't stand being around these

out of this house!

was some helpless child who needed him to survive. He tried to browbeat me into changing my mind, but all he

been dead for so long that I no longer felt any pain. In fact, Leven felt an inexplicable sense

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