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.

heirloom? When I admired it once, your mother didn’t hesitate to hand it over.

snapped. His hands clenched so tightly on the armrest that

“Shut up!”

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bulging

took two steps back, her

to see you again!” Darin commanded,

never show up in your house again. And don’t even think about using this as a reason to threaten

be accountable for the words you utter. Don’t make me lose

her emotions a complicated blend of humiliation and

Now!” Darin’s voice was a

wasted no time in leaving the mountain retreat

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