Chapter 13 The Slap

Daniel frowned at Jasmine. "Where are you going?"

Jasmine looked down, clutching Justin as she stepped back. "Nowhere... I wasn't planning on going anywhere."

Daniel had a stern look on his face as he issued a warning. "Put the kid down, freshen up, change your clothes, and come with me."

Terrified, Jasmine shielded Justin and retreated further. "I don't want to go..."

"It's Serena's birthday. Whether you want to or not, you're coming!" Daniel's voice was icy.

Jasmine stared at Daniel in horror. "I... I don't want to go..."

"Jasmine, Serena isn't in good health, and it's out of kindness that she even invited you," Daniel said, more out of fear of upsetting Serena than anything.

Jasmine trembled.

Birthday.

Serena's birthday.

And hers too.

She had forgotten her own birthday because she felt undeserving of celebration, even fearful of it.

Sometimes, Jasmine wished she had never lived beyond the day she was born.

But life offered no such wishes.

"Daniel... please, can I not go?" Her plea was barely above a whisper.

Was he hell-bent on breaking her spirit?

her giving up a kidney been enough

make me repeat myself,"

knew there

left Justin in the cupboard room, telling

on the dilapidated bed,

piece of cake to Justin for when he

room

her own clothes as she stood in the courtyard

was coming-unrestrained mockery and endless

the show Daniel wanted, she'd give it to

for you?" Daniel emerged; his gaze

Serena's birthday bash, he was dressed in a bespoke

her heart no longer racing at the sight of him. So many years

didn't love him

dresses." She didn't want to wear a

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felt nothing suited her anymore, now gaunt beyond recognition. Better to just be

less about convincing Jasmine.

rear door of the car, slipped inside, and

momentarily lost in thought. Jasmine used

where a 'fairy princess' belongs," she'd

"Right, no other woman is

irony wasn't lost

car settled into the shadows of the Bellagio Hotel's underground parking. "Even if you had betrayed me, and even

When she had desperately struggled and cried for

audacity to

owe the Wilsons, I owe Serena... but Daniel, I owe you nothing,"

wall, pinning her fiercely. "You owe me

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