Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 6 Raking up the Past

"Yeah, I did time." Meryl's eyes scanned the crowd, finally landing on Lydia.

Lydia reached out to grab her hand. "Meryl, stop saying that. I just spoke without thinking, okay?"

Meryl pulled back, avoiding Lydia's touch, yanking her hand away.

Suddenly, Lydia stepped on the hem of her dress and fell to the ground.

The fall was hard, and shards from a broken glass on the floor hadn't been cleaned up yet.

Dalton immediately rushed over, pushing through the crowd to help Lydia up.

Her hand was a bloody mess, with shards embedded in her skin.

Dalton's eyes blazed with anger as he glared at Meryl. "Meryl, you never learn! I warned you..."

Meryl's heart skipped a beat. She knew Dalton didn't care about her, but seeing him protect another woman still hurt.

"What did I do? I just pulled my hand away. She fell on her own."

Seeing their hands clasped together, Meryl felt a pang of irony. She lowered her gaze, gently touching a spot on her chest where a pendant hung, a gift from someone long ago.

during countless moments of despair, she had clung to that pendant to

looked up again, her

I was in prison, but I

as Meryl admitted her

when Lydia exposed Meryl's past, Bianca also suspected it

to cover it up, she believed i was

grow up and

Bianca tried to smooth things over. "Meryl, you've had too much to drink. Let them help you upstairs to

ago, if I had really kidnapped Lydia, I could have made her disappear without a trace.

slap echoed

had emerged from his study, his

nonsense right

but Meryl didn't

have done it when they first grabbed her. Why take

at Lydia, who bit her lip,

spectacle. His one daughter ended up in prison, and the other was nearly assaulted all because of a

out a cold laugh, thinking, "Can't handle

own suffering, this was

Meryl a warning look, urging her to be quiet. Three years ago, they had agreed to send Meryl to prison to teach her a lesson because she had refused to

in prison. They believed this might be the only way to set Meryl straight, fearing she would otherwise go down the

Camille, who