The Heiress Revived from the Ashes (Lauren Bennett) novel Chapter 324

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324 The One I Couldn’t Let Go.

At school or at home. I was always the kind of kid everyone liked.

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But after my mother died–and my father shamelessly brought that mistress into our home–everything changed. After I turned five, I became quiet, Withdrawn. Dark.

Back then. I was still too young to know how to hide my emotions. Facted purely on instinct, saying whatever I felt, doing whatever I wanted.

If I even felt the slightest annoyance, I took it all out on my father’s mistress.

I pushed her down the stairs once. She lost the baby she was carrying

I even held a knife to her once and said, “I’m a minor. Even if I kill you, I won’t go to jail.”

That woman hated me with every bone in her body. If she could’ve killed me and gotten away with it, she would’ve done it without blinking.

She’d assumed dealing with a five–year–old would be child’s play. What she never expected was that I, a literal child, knew how to weaponize my age and become something terrifying.

From that moment on, she staried flinching whenever she saw me–like a rat spotting a cat.

Even my father was afraid of me.

He knew I wasn’t bluffing. I really would do the things I said.

At the time, it was pure instinct. I just wanted to protect myself. No matter the cost.

If someone hurt me, I’d make sure they paid for it–even if I died trying.

Maybe that was why, despite having such a vicious stepmother, I was never once abused.

I grew up without a scratch.

Over time, the sharp edges of my personality dulled. I learned how to keep my emotions in check.

Eventually, people started calling me calm. Mature.

On the surface, I came offas gentle and polite. But deep down, I knew: when it came to enemies, I’d never show mercy.

My father’s mistress, the one who used to tremble in fear when I was a child, grew even more terrified of me as I got older.

I thought life would just keep flowing quietly like that, neventful, steady.

That was before I came to Hoverdale–and met the most important person of my life: Lauren.

Meeting her changed everything. She showed me just how cruel the world could be to one person.

I still remember the first time I saw her.

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Chapter 324 The One i Couldn’t Let Go

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She looked so fragile, like a gust of wind could knock hier over. And yet, she looked me straight in the eye and asked me for a cigarette.

Back then, I never could’ve guessed how deeply our lives would intertwine. I never imagined fate could be so strange–how it would keep bringing us together, over and over again.

And every time I saw her, she was in some kind of mess Battered. Bruised. Helpless.

I was never the type to care about others–especially not women. I had no patience for them.

But she was different.

Maybe it was her story. The way she’d suffered. Maybe if just made me feel something I hadn’t felt in a long time–pity.

That pity, though, was like a spark. It lit up a growing urge to know more about her.

And by the time I’d uncovered everything–by the time I truly understood what she’d been through–1 realized something else.

I’d already fallen for her.

She was like a rare gem sculpted by heaven itself–flawless in every way.