Seeing Millie and Marcus together had been like a needle to Rhea’s pride, adding to the humiliation.

Furthermore, the past days spent attending to Darin Like a servant had been an ordeal unlike any she had endured before. The resentment had festered, and now she let it all out.

Darin’s grip on his wheelchair tightened with each cutting word, his face first reddening then turning ashen.

Rhea pressed on, relentless.

“Did you know that your mother even knelt to me in private, pleading with me to treat you more kindly? She saw your daily misery and feared you might do something rash. She was desperate, promising to grant any wish of mine, just to keep me at your side.”

Darin was stunned. His mother had knelt to Rhea?

Rhea yanked off the emerald ring from her finger and slammed it onto the table with a resonant thud.

to hand it over. She

on the armrest that

“Shut up!”

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the veins bulging on

two steps back, her voice shaking

I never want to see you again!” Darin commanded, his

you said this, Once I leave, I will never show up in your house again. And don’t even think about using this as a reason to threaten

accountable for the words you utter.

then frowned, her emotions a complicated blend of humiliation

Now!” Darin’s voice was

in leaving the mountain retreat

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