A Life Debt Repaid

Chapter 1353

Ryan continued with righteous indignation, “Whatever, Quinn -I don’t want to keep arguing. I’m not the type who sweettalks people, and I’ll use words instead of actions to prove my feelings for you. I really hope you can understand my perspective.”

Quinn simply stared at him, feeling that he was a stranger for the first time.

If she played to his whims, he would still be kind, understanding, and brotherly.

If she did not, he would become self-obsessed, convinced that everything he thought was right and allowing no one to say otherwise.

Had she been looking at him through rose-tinted glasses all this while? It was certainly disappointing to see how far her idealized version of him was from the real thing.

On the other hand, Ryan took her long silence as her giving in.

He sighed, appearing disappointed and working hard to forgive her, as if he had been hugely tolerant of her.

Somehow, it annoyed Quinn.

somehow both using emotional blackmail against her and behaving like

and there’s nothing left at all. I’m not upset, and I’m not behaving like

incensed right then, unable to accept Quinn’s rejection

Sam like

epiphany—that she should not live under Ryan’s shadow and to behave the way he wanted just because

which was why she

has definitely been playing around too much and not sharing their burdens,” she said bluntly. “However, only your parents get to scold him and be disappointed in

hospitalized now! I’m the one keeping the family afloat, so I have the right to criticize anyone who’s

you aren’t any better,” Quinn said,

unable to believe what

time, Quinn continued, “You told Sam that he never kept your parents company or shared their burdens, but what about you? You never did that either! You were always studying and never cared about your family, and

You never ask after the family, and you barely

from a moral high ground-not when you haven’t done