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.

once, your mother didn’t hesitate to hand it over. She may loathe me, but she still bends over backward to keep me happy,

so tightly on

“Shut up!”

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veins bulging on Darin’s forehead, sensed

two steps back, her voice

want to see you again!” Darin commanded, his voice

house again. And don’t

accountable for the words you utter. Don’t

emotions a complicated blend of humiliation and

voice was

leaving the mountain retreat that

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