ll dressed in black suits, helped the old man a

" My mother

, just as the phone b

Ophel

le to the far side of the ro

g in. Why will grandfather not hate her? This is all her faul

en glanc

Ophelia watching me from where

ving, but she was too far to

r shouted over the p

s she looked at the pale, brown-haired gi

She was pretty, like any mixed asian girl, and had nice curv

former Miss World, and

ill lose more than your credit card access i

ga

w do you ex

s is all your fault, you had the man eating out of your palms, but you

She could no

o, at least that is

That you lost your man to a twent

d, embarrassment

o marry him, but the thought that he would be leaving her for some

because of your stupidity. If you are not married to Blai

ended t

lt her kne

up, the bitch

y attention away from Opehlia who had been l

to see a maid bo

ou up to your suite so you

d glanced at

everyone's atten

at anyone as we we

ove for me. And after that whisper I heard

lway, up a flight of carpeted sta

oors. Although I could not hear them, I needed

ed at t

e could be listening." Heidi Taked

bout this? This is your s

went to sit on a

rs. She could not get the inheritance the first time, so she decided to try with

east, doesn't

thirty-year-old son," she emphasized, "did not go messing a

t twenty-five when I first saw her. She is at fault here. She is worse

he would have known either. Blaine could pass off

de?" Aoi squinted

late husband and son worked for

his?" Aoi came to

perative, this should have been his wife. But after th

marry Ariel

shot up in

about six months before she has her bab

oi proteste

at will happen if any of the Souji grandsons learn of that in those six months and sw

eyes w

thank goodness the woman's b

y tip the scale that the Takedas and Soujis had fo

fter she has the baby, we will take him, and th

. "She might have gathered power

angrily. "The dead

*

ack, Mom?" I asked my

urs now, and it was begi

t for the baby. I am heading to the chec

odd to talk

have a baby this early. I had returne

aine walked in. His gray e

up ner

d you and Ru

ha

ok his

I unburdened myself to you that nigh

e was making me sound l

d me too you had a fianceé,

houted angrily. "You think

g shame for the hundredth time s

en so stupid

actical stranger, because we shared deep co

I felt towards him that made m

he courthouse in the morning. The church wedding wil

ll n

nd again, as tears

l. Foolish f

tstaff job. I should have swallowed m

would have survived till the

night would never have happened, and I would have been a respe

r words as my bedroom door flew open a

d not

I had finally become my

world, it's social climbers," Ophelia sai

row

guard posted at the do

nd placed her hand on m

ed, step

quietly miscarry t

ha

y bottle, and held

he danger I was in r

oor. Maybe I could make

wed my gaze to the d

phone and raise

r mo

close to peer i

aking this video was walking behind he

oes down to the parking lot, my

fr

a decision is dependent o

iate urge to us

die. At the same time, I

, and went to sit on the bedroom couch

my mother, completely unaware t

n was getting blurry as I th

were nowhere

one dirty things to each other over the

ly as I saw my mother begin to

risk, and hope I got t

tood up and hande

r neared the door. I drank the whole thi

and took her

said, drawing the