When They Beg, I Rise!

Lucian frowned, "Lemmy, we should treat Eve like she's one of us. That's what the Langstons owe her, and more importantly, what you owe her. Got it?" "Lucian, for someone as ungrateful as her, if she had any sense, she wouldn't have pushed Eve into the pool. Mr. Sylas would do better saving a dog than her!" Lemira felt like she was stranded in a desert, chilled to the bone. If possible, she wished she hadn't been rescued.

Bearing the searing pain in her lungs, she spoke with a hoarse voice, "It's indeed my fault. It won't happen again."

She wouldn't make such a foolish mistake again. If they preferred Evelina as a sister, she would step aside.

"Did you really do it on purpose? Don't you know Eve can't swim? That could have killed her!"

Lucian was disappointed, thinking it was just an accident, not expecting Lemira to have intentionally put Evelina in harm's way. When had Lemira become so malicious?

At that moment, the family doctor rushed over, and Caspian turned to angrily rebuke Lemira, "You better pray nothing's wrong with Eve, or you'll suffer when Asher gets back." Lucian took a few steps, and then turned back to see Lemira soaked and pale, feeling a bit of pity. He said, "You should go change your clothes. The party is about to start." Lemira didn't respond, soon left all alone.

She waited till they were gone, and then bent over, coughing violently. Swallowing the blood in her throat, she steadied herself and headed back to her room.

Lying in the bathtub, she closed her eyes, recalling how in her past life, after being abandoned on the streets and hatred taken up her mind, she attempted to kill Evelina. But she failed. Asher had her committed to an asylum, where she was tortured to death by a caregiver arranged by Evelina.

laughed, her voice chilling, thinking, "Well, isn't that just

ice cold. After

life, this bedroom had eventually been given to

table, a young couple holding a

her first, but when he went back to save her parents, the fuel tank exploded, killing him as well. Evelina was the driver's only daughter, frail from

to the Langston

arrival, everything changed. Her beloved brothers,

hired a chef to prepare meals suitable for her. Lemmy, make

painting too, and since you're almost

for a long time." "Lemira, Eve's grades are low, apply to the same college as her, it'll be

swallow the pain. She wanted nothing to do

bowed her head, and

servant knocked, "Ms. Langston, the party has started. Mr. Lucian Langston asks if you could