Chapter 12. Find Her at All Cost

I sprawl my weary muscles and haul my lazy ass out of bed. Empty space? Where did he go this early morning? He didn’t tell me he was going somewhere.

Damn my unbearably painful ankles! Those stupid heels! And Jerol had to get me all these five pairs? There is no way I am putting my feet in these torturous hell of heels ever again! Never! Just when my hip had healed, now I have to hobble again all because I was trying to impress some people who weren’t impressed at all. To hell with them! After all, what did I get in the end? I was mocked for not having the freaking surname, as if it’s a bad omen. Sigh!

I was treated like an outcast because no matter how much I had struggled to cover the truth, I just couldn’t hide it. The truth came out in the end — the truth that I am not like the rich. I couldn’t fit in their class, and I wish I had not tried. Wasted effort!

I shuffle back from the bathroom and change from my pajamas, then I walk with caution down the stairs. I p