Chapter 17. Suspicions From the Past

When Camille arrived home after meeting with Michael, she was filled with an inner glow that she had never felt before. It was as if she’d been given hope in life again. It sounded exaggerated, but Michael was truly the breath of fresh air that she had needed for a long time now.

She went straight towards the guest room and stopped before the mirror, staring at her reflection.

At that moment, Michael’s words came back to her.

‘You’re still so beautiful,’ he had told her in German.

Who knew that an unexpected shared language between them would cause a fluttering in her stomach?

‘To think that he complimented me even when I look like this…’ Camille thought to herself wryly as she approached the mirror. ‘Even I can’t recognize myself from my high school appearance anymore.’

It had been fourteen years since she left this city. Fourteen years since she behaved as the good eldest daughter of the van Gowen family and prepared to inherit the