Chapter 4
Lorelei lay alone on the floor for a long time until the feeling of suffocation finally passed. Only then did she manage to pull her weak body up and shuffle, step by step, back to her room.
Closing the door, listening to the faint sounds of laughter from downstairs, her heart was numb.
ren more days. She just had to endure for ten more days.
The mysterious overseas ID would come for her, to take her away from this suffocating hell.
he collapsed onto the bed, exhausted in body and soul, and drifted into a heavy sleep.
he didn’t know how long she had slept when she was suddenly yanked up by a rough force, a searing pain tearing at her scalp.
Lorelei! Did you do this?!”
Before her was Sabine’s furious face, her beautiful eyes blazing with anger.
Lorelei was bewildered. “What?”
abine clutched her hair tightly. “The sapphire bracelet my mommy left me is missing!”
Did you steal it? You’re holding a grudge over that pasta this morning, so you’re getting back at me, aren’t you?”
efore Lorelei could defend herself, Sabine turned to Damian. “Damian, have you forgotten where she comes from?”
A hired seductress who’d entice a man for a bit of money–is there anything she wouldn’t do?”
ler words were like a poisoned needle, striking precisely into the most hidden corner of Damian’s heart.
Although he had claimed to have “willingly walked into her game” back then, in the years after their marriage, they had both tacitly avoided mentioning the bet.
ifter all, who wouldn’t want the start of their love story to be pure and beautiful?
low, with Sabine exposing it so publicly, his face instantly turned ugly.
le spoke, his voice cold as ice. “Give it back to Sabine,”
That bracelet means the world to her. It’s not for you to touch. If you want jewelry, I can buy you something better.”
oreles denched her fists, her nails digging into her palms.
I said I didn’t take it
‘If not you, who else could it be? Sabine persisted You’re the only one in this house who has a problem with met
‘Someone! Search her room! It must be hidden in here!
Damian remained silent, a taril approval
The next moment, the butler and several servants flooded in and began to tear the room apart
Lorelei’s clothes and personal belongings were thrown carelessly onto the floor.
Even her lingerie was shaken out without a second thought, ogled by several male servants with lewd states.
Lorelei bit her lip so hard it almost bled, her body trembling with humiliation.
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