Chapter 57

“You can be quite desperate, Lady Victoria. Are you that afraid to lose Cory? Wake up. You will never own him, not until you will take the risk of trusting someone. But looking at you, you’re just a scared little girl who chose to abandon him first just because you’re afraid of being betrayed.”

What Tessa said haunted Tori that night. She was sitting on her bed and no amount of chamomile tea could appease her troubled mind. All of her handmaidens retired already. The estate was eerily silent but her mind was in chaos.

Trusting someone, huh.

Staring at her canopy as she laid on her bed, Tori remembered her life as Talia the moment she closed her eyes.

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[Flashback]

Talia watched with fervent curiosity as some middle school students rushed past her. They all looked happy as they snickered with each other from some sick joke between them that they only knew. Talia walked faster away from the scene that reminded her of everything she did will never