Chapter 43. Nerve-Racking

River’s eyes…

They were telling me as if I’d gotten everything wrong, yet at the same time, he was happy with how things had turned out for us.

“Anyway, you still don’t look good, Serenity,” Mom suddenly said, now looking at me as she was talking to me. “Why don’t you try to drink some water? It might help you.”

Water?

I suddenly looked at the water beside me. No, I wasn’t the one who poured it into the glass; it was one of our maids, who was also working directly for my mom.

Suddenly, a realization hit me. My mom told me before not to drink a beverage if I wasn’t the one who opened it or poured it into the glass myself.

She said that it was for my own safety. Being the Miller family’s only heir means that more people will try to take us down, especially me. No one even knew what the other people could do to me.

Yet now… I’m just drinking beverages without even questioning where they came from.

Why am I realizing it just now?

“Se