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.

pleaded with Vincent, kneeling on the ground and begging him. Endless beating during the

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kidney. I’m not eligible. I can make amends and do anything you

she knew she had no powerful family to back

had to outdo their expectations to cling

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figure out her

the Turner family would let her off the

She had her

Involuntarily, his eyes betraying a complexity of emotions, seemingly taken aback by the sight of the once

a kidney to Ruby, right? Clarence,

her childhood, she couldn’t

Ruby. You would’ve been dead a

time before she slumped to the ground, powerless. “Can I

stint in prison can wipe the slate clean? Have you forgotten what you

bear to remember the hell from five years ago, nor

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

Clarence’s eyes, Kristin was a counterfeit, and by extension, her fiancé Vincent belonged to

Ruby took Vincent to catch her

by Ruby and

believed whatever she said. And nobody would believe a word from Kristin, the

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