Chapter 2

Everything went black momentarily, and Kristin was shoved into a car, huddled in a corner, shaking in utter despair.

There was no way she could donate a kidney. It would kill her, and she couldn’t afford to die.

“Kristin, how’s prison life been treating you these past five years?” Vincent eyed the woman curled up in the corner, who had long lost the pride she once carried. He couldn’t quite put his finger on the mix of emotions brewing inside him.

Kristin flinched, perhaps a reflex born from being bullied behind bars. She hugged her head in fear.

*Cat’s got your tongue, huh?” Vincent looked at Kristin with disgust, grabbing her chin, the dark red blood on her forehead stark against her pale face.

“Please…” Kristin’s voice shook, her eyes filled with despair and resentment.

Thanks to Vincent, her time in prison was a living hell.

On the day she was released, a cellmate who couldn’t stand to see her mistreated any longer spilled the beans. Vincent’s people had paid her to ensure Kristin ‘got special attention‘ during those five years.

Vincent’s Adam’s apple bobbed with disgust as he pushed her away after looking at the bruises on her face.

How disgusting it was.

Kristin numbly watched Vincent, the man she had once loved with all her youth, unable to stir any emotion in her anymore.

She had long stopped loving him.

The car arrived at Silvergrove Hospital.

dragged Kristin out of the car.

kneeling on the ground and begging him. Endless beating

f

not eligible. I can make amends and do

had no powerful family to back her up. She knew Vincent and the Turner family could squash her like a bug if they

to suffer, and she had to outdo their expectations to cling to life

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then figure out

that neither Vincent nor the Turner family would let her off the hook.

to survive. She had her

of emotions, seemingly taken aback by the sight of the

the Turner family’s resources, plenty of people can donate a kidney to Ruby, right? Clarence, I’m begging you. You and Mom and

surgery in her childhood, she couldn’t withstand the

would’ve been

slumped to the ground, powerless. “Can I make amends in some

scoffed. “Kristin, you think a five–year stint in prison can wipe the slate clean? Have you forgotten what you did to me? When you betrayed me and slept with that jerk, did

to remember the hell from five years ago, nor did she have the energy to

uncovering the grim truth, Clarence, once her sworn protector, heartlessly cast

and by extension,

catch her in

setup by Ruby and Clarence.

And nobody would believe a word from Kristin, the daughter of

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