Chapter 32

Grace had not been expecting to come across Lily again so quickly.

Lily looked the same as when Grace had met her for the first time all those years ago.

She was tall and thin in the way only actresses could be. Her skin had a perfect glow. Meticulously applied makeup, haute couture clothes, expensive designer handbag…

She looked every bit the actress and fiancee to one of the richest men in the city.

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If not for either of those things, she was still the only daughter of the Atkinson family and a socialite in her own right.

Even then, when Lily permitted others to rip out her nails, she was still dressed exquisitely. Her expensive and branded clothes stood out in the dark prison.

She looked so radiant and glamorous, then. And now.

see Grace tortured and abused. There was a moment when Grace understood Lily’s

been close to Jennifer. They

be so vengeful, so focused on hating Grace at every turn, even years later, it

Grace had been unrepentant. But that wasn’t the case. She deeply regretted

is. Isn’t she the perpetrator who killed Jennifer? This sure

She lowered her head and continued to sweep up the rubbish

sister, I’m afraid I would cry bitterly as I knelt down and begged for forgiveness. I can’t believe that some people would

breath and slowly raised her head. She looked at the two of them and said, “I’ve already paid the price.” She held the broom in front of her, a physical barrier to encourage these two women

around the building— it was a government building-bul government officials could be bought, as she’d learned in the course of her trial and when she’d been tricked into

years over an unwarranted accusation and my lawyer license was suspended. I suffered

jail and could only be a sanitation worker after being

have a shit job. Big deal. You’re alive, aren’t you? While Jennifer is

paid the price? It was only three years in prison and you think that’s the price?” Lily asked coldly. “It should’ve been a life for a life.”

the worst life possible. I have no family. No friendships. Everything I’ve worked for was taken from me. Did you come here to gloat? I can now say that I have nothing to my name, and therefore I have nothing to lose.”

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