In the garden of Landry Mansion’s backyard, Roanne iced her face as she waited for Charlotte in silence.

The words Joshua had said to her in the car kept repeating in her mind. “When I find them, I’ll bring them over to see you so that they can get a clear idea of what you’ve been up to alongside Charlotte.”

“You deliberately sabotaged Jim and Bonnie’s relationship and his sibling bond with Luna, and even plotted to take the Landry family fortune as your own.

“If your parents see the despicable things you did, they’ll probably be glad that they decided to abandon you at that orphanage.”

These words rang in her head over and over, like a curse.

Roanne bit her lip, her heart beginning to turn as cold as her swollen cheek.

Even though she had not seen her birth parents in more than 20 years, there was not a second that she did not long to meet them.

Even if they had abandoned her on purpose, Roanne still wanted to find them and ask them why they did not keep to their promise, and why they decided to leave her.

want them to be misled by Joshua into thinking she was a bad child and that

the sound of heels rang out from behind her,

her brows and immediately turned

her high heels, followed by two tall, burly bodyguards dressed

arose

to her about something she had forgotten, as she had claimed on

pointed in Roanne’s direction with a glittery, bejeweled nail.

drained from Roanne’s face. She bit her lip, but before she could say a word, the two

face was pressed against the dirt, and both

and stepped on one of Roanne’s hands with her pointy heels. “Nice seeing you here again,

believe that even after feeding and clothing you for so many years, you dare to betray me just because I slapped

understood why Charlotte had summoned her back here. She bit her lip and

that man offered me a tissue, I had no idea he was with Joshua Lynch

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