Chapter 32

Kristin was squirming on the spot, gripping her hands tightly in anxiety. She didn’t dare get in

the car.

“Thank… thanks, but no. I’ll pass Kristin waved her hand stiffly

Rhett didn’t say much. He was about to take off, but catching a glimpse of Kristin hobbling sway in the rearview mirror, he felt an annoying itch he couldn’t scratch.

Kristin didn’t go home. She was a hot mess and had wounds on her face and hands. Garner would freak out if he saw her like this

Getting her family worried when one couldn’t change things only added to the headache.

Kristin was the Turner family’s golden girl back then, so she had never tasted much injustice. or hardship growing up.

She was cocooned in too much care, basking in the sun, clueless about the darkness in the trenches

After losing everything, she got the joke that rebelling was just a laughable act of futility for someone without a powerful background.

Finding a bench in a nearby park, Kristin touched her forehead and slowly lay down.

Her head was spinning.

At this rate, she’d probably check out a bit sooner.

While looking at her scalded hand, Kristin’s gaze went distant.

Did it hurt? She’d become numb to it.

When Vincent misunderstood her before, it felt like the end of the world. But now, it was just

for the course.

they loved each other deeply, yet such vile treatment was the payback of

love.

the charge against her if she hadn’t been Ms. Turner or

true colors were anything but

the boys in. Strip her

you think you’re doing?

heard you’ve got several boyfriends outside

10:30

school, rumors and gossip could destroy

looks, others of the attention she got from

her again,

her desk, reaching out his hand to

only to be yanked into

having a nightmare again. It was a nightmare

too cold, but

up, wrapping herself tightly.

“Get up.”

park lights, backlit, looking like a God coming to lead

Kristin asked hoarsely, probably hallucinating from the

in

closed her eyes. “I’m going to

“Why?”

a long time ago…” Kristin’s voice was raspy.

it weren’t for her mom’s desperate swap of her and Ruby’s lives and if

like defying

she would go to hell.

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