Chapter 27

“Crash” There was a sound of something smashed in the bedroom

Vincent, worried about Ruby’s well–being, rushed in

Kristin stood in the comer of the room, surrounded by shattered dishes.

“How dare she? She’s out to get me. It was scalding hot! Ruby said in anger, with tears welling up in her eyes. “Vinny, she wants to kill me.”

Kristin looked down numbly, hiding her hands behind her back.

Her hands were burnt by the hot soup that had spilled all over them, stinging with pain

“Kristin, don’t expect me to play nice if you dare pull more stunts Vincent always took Ruby’s side shooting Kristin a look of disgust as he comforted Ruby.

Kristin was numb to it all, indifferent to their affectionate display before her because love was no longer in the equation.

She remembered how this man had personally sent her to jail five years ago, and her heart tore apart in agony. But she had already grown accustomed to it.

She even thought that Vincent and Ruby deserved each other. They were a match made in

heaven

Crouching on the floor, Kristin began to clean up the broken remnants.

“Vinny, she doesn’t want to take care of me. I can’t stand her attitude,” Ruby whined pitifully.

Vincent was quick to soothe her. “Ruby, I’ll make her do it willingly. She owes you and has to

pay.”

Ruby again, and see if any school in

she collected the debris, a piece of

how to hit where

on her knees, almost as low as the dust. “What do I have to do… for you to

what would make Ruby stop resenting her.

taken twenty years of my life. If we hadn’t switched places, I’d be Ms. Turner, enjoying a higher education, plano, and dance. I should’ve been the high and mighty socialite of Silvergrove City, and you would be trampled in the mud,” Ruby said, her eyes

enough. She wanted to see Kristin

her, tarnish her reputation,

quell

everything that belonged

I can do anything to her?” Ruby posed the question intentionally, and

wanted to boast, to tell Kristin that everything she once had belonged to her.

her brother, belonged to her, and

Kristin were willing to harm her for Ruby’s

much,” Vincent said, his eyes downcast as he kissed Ruby’s fingers, doting on her. “But you have

down Kristin’s spine. “Seeing her struggle like this, I feel a

remained silent, not

City, it must be hard for her to get a husband, right? Who would dare to take

random guy? God knows how

even average folks

thought she had destroyed Kristin.

the son of your family’s butler, nearly forty, was still single. The butler’s worried about his son’s marriage, isn’t he? Despite her bad reputation and having a child, Kristin marrying the butler’s son would be quite

Kristin’s gaze

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