The Rejected Principessa Returns novel Chapter 36

Chapter 8

The follow-up was smoother than I had expected.

Zoe’s case was airtight.

The restaurant’s surveillance footage, my injury report, the $1 million transfer record, and the testimony from the two security guards-all of it left her no room to deny.

She was sentenced to three years.

I heard that she kept screaming Blake’s name in court, claiming he would come to her rescue.

Too bad, by then Blake was already beyond help.

After I kicked him out of the villa, he was penniless.

The friends who used to circle around him disappeared without a trace.

He tried to go to our father, but given their past and my ironclad stance, our father shut him out completely.

He tried to return to the company, but security stopped him at the lobby, treating him like a stray dog.

He finally experienced what it felt like to fall from grace.

Later, I don’t know how, but he managed to get Lily’s number. He went mad, calling her nonstop, begging her

to arrange a meeting with me.

Lily told me about it.

I had her relay a message to Blake.

“Want to see me? Sure. Go to my mother’s grave and kneel there for three days and nights.”

When my mother found out about him and his mother, the weight of it crushed her heart, and she passed

away early, burdened with sorrow.

That was something Blake owed her.

I didn’t think he could do it.

After all, he was such a spoiled, selfish young master.

But to my surprise, he actually went.

Lily had someone check on him. He was really there, kneeling at my mother’s grave, not eating, not drinking,

not sleeping, just kneeling straight through it all.

On the third day, a torrential downpour started.

He was soaked through, running a high fever, barely able to stay on his knees, yet he still didn’t leave.

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Lily asked me, “Aren’t you going to check on him? If this goes on, he might die out there.”

I sat in my warm office, staring out at the drizzle, sipping my hot coffee.

“He won’t die.”

I didn’t soften.

Compared to the pain he had put me through, what was this?

This was just the first price he paid for his stupidity and cruelty.

Three days later, he couldn’t take it anymore. He collapsed at the cemetery. The patrolling guards found him

and rushed him to the hospital.

When he woke up, the first thing he did was call me again.

I finally picked up.

voice on the other end was weak and hoarse, filled with a humble sort of hope.

“Sophia… I did it… Can you… can you forgive me?”

“Forgive you?”

I laughed softly.

“Blake, did you get something wrong?”

“I told yo

bee it now?”

t for you to beg for my forgiveness.”

who you really are and how you got everything you have.”

There was a long silence on the other end.

I could almost picture his face, filled with despair.

“I never wanted your life.”

I continued calmly, “I’ve had my assistant rent you a small apartment in the suburbs, and I’ve put $200,000 in

your account.”

“That should be enough for you to live on for a while.”

“From now on, whether you live or die, it’s none of my business, and none of the Montgomery family’s

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“Don’t ever contact me again.”

With that, I didn’t give him a chance to respond. I hung up the phone and blocked his number.

Everything finally felt still, almost serene.

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