Chapter 31

“You guys too, you all knew Clarissa was the one who did it. I was clearly the victim. Wallace and you both wanted me to shut up, Ivan out of the city, and even now, I still haven’t heard a single apology from Clarissa, not even one.”

“And you too, Kieran,” Alaricka’s look was full of sarcasm. “You knew Clarissa got someone to assault me. It was Ivan who saved me and took me to the hotel.”

“You obviously knew everything, but you still thought I was sleeping with Ivan, that I had something improper going on.”

Her eyes turned red.

Alaricka wasn’t a very strong person; she got sad too. She cried and made a fuss, and she wanted love and care.

She wasn’t exactly okay with what Kieran and the others did.

She was already a thin and weak woman, her face so small that one hand could cover it. Her eyes were red, filled with tears that stubbornly refused to fall. She bit her lip, looking like a trapped animal struggling, so pitiful.

Alaricka didn’t want to look so pathetic in front of Kieran, either.

She knew Kieran wouldn’t care.

But she really couldn’t help it.

“Kieran, I also wanted to ask you, what exactly did I do wrong? Why did you guys treat me like that?”

Kieran’s dark eyes looked at her up close, his thin lips pressed tight.

“No matter what, you shouldn’t have touched Rose.”

It was like playing the lute to a cow.

Alaricka felt like she had no strength left in her whole body.

She knew Kieran only had Roschelle in his heart, and she also knew Kieran hated her.

But she still hoped Kieran could treat things fairly and justly. Again and again, she had expectations for Kieran. Again and again, she hoped Kieran could see her grievances, could understand her tears.

But what I got in return was just even deeper disappointment.

Alaricka gave a weak smile, and tears finally fell from her eyes, ran down her cheeks, and dropped to the ground.

“Kieran, I think it really was my fault. I shouldn’t have had any expectations of you.”

Kieran’s brows furrowed a little.

Alaricka pushed Kieran away, her face calm again.

“Kieran, if you wanted me to apologize, then I apologize.”

She slowly bent down, her voice calm and firm:

“Kieran, I apologize to you again. Sorry, really sorry.”

She straightened up, looked Kieran right in the eye, and slapped herself hard.

There was no one in the corner of the hospital; it was really quiet, so her crisp slap sounded really loud.

Kieran didn’t change his expression, his dark eyes fixed on her face.

Alaricka chuckled, “You feel sorry for Roschelle, so this slap, I’m giving it back to her.”

“I just asked you, from now on, we go our separate ways. You mind your business, I mind mine. We don’t mess with each other.”

Kieran still didn’t say anything.

Alaricka thought Kieran still wasn’t satisfied with her self-punishment.

So she raised her hand and asked him, “Kieran, do I need to slap myself again?”

As she spoke, she slapped her own face hard again.

It’s just that this time, the slap didn’t land on her face.

Because halfway there, Kieran suddenly grabbed her wrist.

He warned in a low voice, “Alaricka.”

Alaricka looked at him indifferently: “So, are you satisfied? Can you let me go now?”

Kieran just frowned.

Alaricka said yes, then shook off Kieran’s hand hard and turned away.

On the way back to the Argent’s villa, Alaricka felt more and more like moving out.

She just called the agent and booked that rental place she hadn’t had a chance to check out.

Back at the Argent’s villa, Alaricka just ran into a servant who was about to come out of the Argent’s villa.

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The familiar crystal locket in the servant’s hand caught her attention.

She stopped the servant and pointed at the crystal locket in her hand: “Where did this come from?”

The servant took it out and said, “You mean this? I saw it in the living room and still didn’t know what to do with it.”

Alaricka said, “You give it to me.”

The servant handed her the crystal locket: “Do you know whose crystal locket this is?”

Alaricka looked at the crystal locket deeply: “This was mine.”

The crystal locket broke into pieces at school back then, and she thought it was just lost.

She didn’t expect that the crystal locket got fixed by someone and then returned.

The crystal locket was badly broken, but the repair marks were really faint, almost invisible.

Alaricka gripped the crystal locket in her hand. The grievances she’d felt these past days were eased a bit by this repaired crystal locket.

It was probably Tamika who took it to get fixed.

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