Chapter 0020

"Rhea." I call, trying to steady my breath. "You have no business with that picture, so give it back to me. "Please." My voice breaks in two halves as I add that last word. "Please just give back to me." My heart is constricting in my chest like there's a hand around it, squeezing all the blood from it. It's hurting.

"Come and take it." She holds it out to me, but the moment I take a step forward to grab it, she lifts the frame high up and lets it free fall to the floor. I watch my entire world shatter into pieces against the hard tiled floor together with the only beautiful thing I had left of my family.

The glasses of the frame fly all over the place and our broken smiles on the picture lay miserable on the floor. Tears blur my eyes as I look from the shattered frame to Rhea and her wicked laugh tips me over the edge. Wrath spreads through my limbs like larva.

"What have you done?" My voice is a harsh whisper as I approach her. She doesn't bulge even as I get closer to her, fuming with rage. She thinks I can't hit her, but I surprise her. I ball my right fist and drive a heavy blow into her left cheek.

sure to pull as hard as I can before catapulting her to the other end of the room. She lets out a loud cry of pain and agony as her back hits against the wall before she drops to the floor. "How dare you!" I sneer as I walk towards

She screams in tears as she struggles to crawl away from me. There's blood oozing from her mouth and nostrils and the place I hit is already very red and swollen. She is going to

come pouring in. The room is filled with shrieks and gasps from the girls while the ervants haul me away from

My trophy.

I say, pointing to the shattered frame and glasses a few meters from where we are all

this H

or regret. She deserves what

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