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

the

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

love.

wondered if Vincent would’ve been one of the bullies leading the charge against her if she hadn’t been Ms. Turner or if Vincent hadn’t fallen for her

true colors were anything but

all pure and innocent, luring the boys in. Strip her down. Let’s see

think you’re doing?

heard you’ve got several boyfriends outside school, much for

10:30

and gossip could destroy a

jealous of her looks, others of the attention she got

is my girl. If anyone touches her again, try me.” Vincent

sat on her desk, reaching

only to be yanked into the abyss by Vincent.

nightmare again. It was a

cold, but the night wind

up, wrapping

“Get up.”

standing in the park

me away?” Kristin asked hoarsely, probably hallucinating

man replied in

eyes. “I’m going to

“Why?”

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

dead long ago if it weren’t for her mom’s desperate swap of her and Ruby’s lives and if she hadn’t stayed with the

like

she would go to

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