Chapter 700 You’re One of My People

Her words transported Dexter to the night the rain poured down endlessly.

He closed his eyes, and the image of Liana reaching out her hands to him in the rain was as clear as day in his mind. Her presence had been like a beacon of hope in his life.

But she stood before him with a new identity after so many years, and he failed to recognize her. He even sent her away and made her life miserable.

“Leanne,” he finally uttered.

Heather’s ears perked up.

“Wouldn’t you like to have a life of comfort and stability, staying with the Olsen family and marrying a kind and proper gentleman?” He looked into her dark, beady eyes and asked sincerely.

Heather’s eyes were like two pools of darkness, filled with sadness and regret. “I must have really missed out on you,” she said, her voice barely more than a whisper.

Even the slightest spark of hope can ignite a fire in the heart. Heather had never dared to dream of being with Dexter, knowing that they were from different worlds. But as they talked about the past, she couldn’t help but feel a chill run down her spine.

Dexter didn’t respond.

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school, and you promised Grandpa that

she reminisced about the past, sharing with Dexter the memories he had long kept hidden. It was as if the Liana he knew had

a cigarette and held

when we were as close as soulmates is now only a fragment

close to his fingertips that he could feel the heat radiating from them. He tapped the cigarette against the ashtray, knocking the ashes off before they

things I did. I’ll make it up to you from now

not what I want,

avoiding the

time, the silence hanging heavy in the air. Heather didn’t say a word

contrast between the lively scene outside and the suffocating tension in the room was jarring. “Find a good man,”

“What do you consider to

family. He will treat you with respect and love, and his family will welcome you into their home with

for a man

of my people. You could be

win the prince’s heart,” Heather replied. “I think I’m more like Sonya, who is treated poorly

Dexter’s eyes clouded over,

lines on

the photo to Josie, so he brought her to Heaven on Earth to humiliate her. His

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