Betrayed by Blood: My Second Life as a Queen novel Chapter 31

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At that moment, a dead silence fell over the room.

Tessa Thorne could barely maintain her innocent, fragile facade; a fleeting look of sheer malice twisted her features.

The members of the Shaw family looked equally appalled, though as Willow Shaw scanned their faces, she didn't spot a single ounce of genuine surprise.

So, they all knew. They knew and did absolutely nothing to stop it.

Was she just some disposable blood bank to them? As long as Tessa needed something, Willow was expected to surrender it without hesitation?

Leo Shaw was the first to react. He strode onto the stage, shielding Tessa behind him as he glared at Willow with accusatory eyes. "Did you deliberately steal Tessa's sheet music and register it first? Willow, how could you be so manipulative? Why can't you stand to see her succeed?"

True to his esports background, his reflexes were razor-sharp. In mere seconds, he had spun a flawless counter-argument to corner her.

Tessa immediately chimed in, tears streaming down her face. "It's true, Willow. I've always given you whatever you wanted, but the piano means everything to me. I've been studying it for fifteen years, while you only took lessons for two years as a kid. You don't even love it. Why must you try to steal my mentor?"

Hearing this, Willow felt a suffocating wave of irony.

Yes, she had only studied piano for two years.

But it wasn't because she had wanted to quit!

It was because after Tessa was taken in by the Shaw family, she constantly threw tantrums, crying that she wasn't as good as Willow and begging to be sent away!

Her blindly devoted brothers, heartbroken by Tessa's supposed inferiority complex, had forcefully canceled Willow's piano lessons against her will, ensuring only Tessa received instruction!

Willow had cried and begged back then, only to be berated by everyone for being selfish and immature. Eventually, she had swallowed her grievances, hiding under her covers to weep in silence.