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.

either because there was no room for me in her blissful life. leouldn't bring them

of love he was simply grooming me as a pan, something he

was wealth.

me to think I could still find warmth in this family. I

years now felt

fallen in love early in my previous life because I was yearning for someone

I be the one to pay for 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 than just

stubbed out his cigarette and glared at me, "Who do you think you are talking

possibly because his deal had

the deal I'm not going to clean up

house made me feel suffocated. I couldn't stand being around these three hypocritical, ugly

get the hell out of this house!

to survive. He tried to browbeat me into changing

my heart had been dead for so long that I no longer felt any pain. In fact, Leven felt

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