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?

up a kidney been enough

repeat myself," Daniel threatened

there

in the cupboard room, telling

the dilapidated bed,

last piece of cake to Justin for when he got hungry, then

room

Jasmine still wore her own clothes as she stood in the courtyard waiting for

what was coming-unrestrained

the show Daniel

dress the nanny laid out for you?" Daniel emerged; his gaze filled

bash, he was dressed in a bespoke suit that made him

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

didn't

want to wear a dress because of the many scars on her

of this book for free. Don't miss out on the next

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

couldn't care less about convincing Jasmine. He headed straight for

door of the

in thought. Jasmine used to claim shotgun whenever she rode in his

a 'fairy

along. "Right, no other woman is taking this seat in

the irony wasn't lost

question broke the silence as the car settled into the shadows of the Bellagio Hotel's underground parking. "Even if you had betrayed me, and even if you weren't a

she had desperately struggled and cried for help-when she

now he had the audacity

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

out, seized Jasmine's wrist, and hurled her against the wall, pinning her fiercely. "You owe me nothing? You sleep with another man,

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