Chapter 13 The First Strike Back
Calista finished talking and loosed her grip. Quincy felt her legs go weak and she collapsed onto the
floor.
Her face was all white, and when she looked back up at Calista, she suddenly felt fear in her heart.
When she thought about the police and what the Fairchilds could do, she became terribly anxious and didn’t say any more, instead escaping up the stairs.
Calista originally intended to go back to her own room, but then she suddenly smelled something. delicious in the kitchen and realized that she hadn’t eaten much at Fairchild Manor earlier, plus she went through so much the night before and she was starving now. She made a turn towards the kitchen and saw two maids preparing snacks for tea.
“I’m hungry.” Calista leaned against the door and suddenly spoke, startling the two maids who were chatting with each other. She didn’t wait for their response and continued, “Prepare some food and send it to my room.”
Quincy had told all the servants to leave the living room earlier, so nobody saw how Calista treated
gone mad. Quincy earlier. So when they heard her give instructions like this, they all thought she had Unfortunately she’ turned and left before they could even react, and they missed their chance to mock
her.
One of the maids threw her gloves on the kitchen top and said angrily, “Can’t she see that we’re very busy? Does she really think she’s the Ms. Calista now?
The older maid replied, “What does it matter? Isn’t there a bit of food leftover from lunch? Just pour a bit of soy sauce on it and send it upstairs. She eats anything anyway.”
She said this mockingly, because Calista of the past never dared to be picky about her food.
Of course Calista had no idea what they were talking about downstairs because she was looking at herself in the mirror, feeling rather strange.
She was still young and tender at eighteen, and even though her thick fringe covered half her face, she still looked fairly sweet.
She combed all her hair back and tied it into a high ponytail, revealing her clean forehead and exquisite eyes.
Looking back at the transformed young lady in the mirror, she laughed to herself, and thought that she didn’t look too bad at all.
She used to really hate this straight cut fringe because it got into her eyes, but she didn’t dare to change her hairstyle because her stepmother had said that it looked nice on her. But did it really look nice? Yelena was just afraid that Calista would steal the limelight from Quincy.
Just then, someone knocked on the door. When Calista opened the door, there was nobody outside, but there was half a bowl of leftover pasta with some baked beans and tomato sauce left on the floor, and nothing else
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She couldn’t help but laugh pitcously at herself. What sort of life did she use to lead, she thought, a where she couldn’t even get to eat warm food.
Everybody said the school canteen food was awful, but she thought it was delicious compared to the
her father wasn’t home, she wasn’t even allowed to sit at the terrible things she ate at home. Wh table. The things she had to eat in a dark corner were possibly even worse than what the security guard’s dog ate!
life
If it were her old self, she would have happily eaten everything because she was hungry. But now she knew that if she ate this without saying a word, what she would get in return was not the reputation of being humble and content, instead she would be mocked at for being lowly and desperate!
She picked up the bowl and went downstairs and saw that the living room was filled with delicious treats and a fresh cup of Ceylon tea. It seemed like Yelena had just returned home and was all dressed up, anxiously waiting for someone to arrive.
The servants pretended not to see Calista and continued to mind their own business. Calista held up
to Yelena. the bowl of food in her hands and walked right up
Yelena was anxiously trying to settle matters for her daughter! Earlier Quincy had phoned her and said. the Fairchilds would continue to investigate what happened the night before and would definitely force the two men to tell the truth. Yelena was nearly driven mad with worries, so she had invited someone who could help to have cups of tea at her house.
Seeing Calista appear in front of her at this time made her so
o furious!
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