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She paused, then looked up at Claire Donovan, raising her wine glass slightly, “Care for a drink?”
Claire shook her head, remaining silent and observant.
Mia Ashworth took a deep breath, raised her glass to her lips, and downed the entire content. She drank so hastily that the wine choked her, spilling out as she coughed violently, covering her mouth.
with her hand. Claire, slightly furrowing her brow, offered her a tissue.
Mia took the tissue, wiping her mouth awkwardly before finally ceasing her cough. She took another deep breath and looked up at Claire, ready to speak.
“Claire Donovan, I didn’t know your mother well, only Joseph Felix.”
Claire nodded but didn’t respond, simply listening.
Mia’s eyes revealed deep sorrow, her entire demeanor clouded with melancholy. “I was quite popular at
school, with many boys liking me. Yet, I didn’t fancy any of them.”
She smiled with a hint of pride but underlying loneliness. “During a school performance, some girls.
envious of my talent, secretly cut my dance dress. It wasn’t noticeable at first, but during my
performance, the cuts tore open, exposing me in front of everyone.”
“The entire school laughed at me. The girls mocked me, and the boys looked at me with ill intentions.
and humiliated. Just then, a boy jumped on stage, took off his shirt,
me, shielding me from that disgraceful scene. He became my savior, like
deeply entering my
looked at Claire, her voice tinged with self–mockery, “He was
much, so her expression remained unchanged,
I’d be talking about those days with Winona Summers”
Is this fate or karma?”
finally speaking,
for me to return
wine bottle, refilled her
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glass down with a crisp sound, she continued,
love. But when I saw Winona Summers coming to
woman, Winona Summers!”
brimmed with intense hatred, a destructive force that seemed
Her face contorted
known as Joseph Felix,
how could I not see
adopted son of the Summers, actually fell
Summers!”
hands clenched tightly, veins bulging in anger. “I couldn’t accept it, I couldn’t stand it. So, I
Summers, planning to marry him with the influence and dowry of an Ashworth.
spoke of marrying Joseph Summers with a lavish dowry.
Winona Summers‘ hand, declaring to Master Summers that in this life, he
marry one person
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