Chapter 14%
Cecilia truly believed Jaden was going to let her go, give her that one final chance.
juickly wiped her tears, straightened her disheveled appearance and looked up at him with a flattering smile, “Jaden, I was just afraid afraid that if you found out, you’d get angry and leave me. That’s why I never dared to tell you.”
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e inched closer to him, tried to take his arm, but Jaden subtly avoided her touch. The way he looked at her was as if she were a “After we were separated, I got really sick. It affected my brain. I can’t remember a lot of things from the past. That’s why I didn’t a plaque.” recognize you right inway when you found me.” As she spoke, worried he wouldn’t believe her, she pulled out a ruby pendant
it was the same one daden had taken from Alexandra during the fire. Later, after Cecilia woke up in the hospital, he had returned it to her. “Juden, even if you couldn’t recognize me after all these years, you remember this ruby pendant, don’t you? I can’t remember much from childhood, but I’ve always worn this pendant close to me. I never took it off.” Tears streamed down her cheeks again as she gave the performance of her life.
But the forgot one thing, Jaden was no foot.
He’d been brought back to the Philemon Family at twelve as an illegitimate child, always overlooked and dismissed.
At first, he had no interest in power. He only wanted a peaceful life with his mother and hoped to leave the family drama behind after graduation.X
But the year he graduated college, everything changed. His grandfather died and the war for succession broke out. Though he tried to stay out of it, he was dragged in and what followed transformed him completely.!!
He went from being passive to mastered control of the entire Philemon Family.
Words like kindness and soft–heartedness were erased from his dictionary, replaced by ruthlessness and strategic calculation.
Now, staring coldly at Cecilia, he could see right through her, “I trusted you too much. And because of that, I hurt Alexandra.”
So that was it, it was all because of Alexandra. But Alexandra wasn’t in the villa! That meant there was still hope!!
Cecilia’s eyes lit up. She looked up at Jaden pitifully again, “Then… where is Alexandra? I can apologize to her.”
Jaden asked. “Really? You’d apologize to her?”
Cecilia nodded. “As long as she’s willing to forgive me, fill do whatever it takes. Jaden, where is she? I’ll apologize to her right now, I will beg for her forgiveness.”
Jaden watched her performance, a mocking smile tugged at his lips. His voice was so cold it seemed to come from the depths of hell, “Yes, you should apologize to her in person. After all, you stole her identity as Little Oriole and her fame as the Masked Diva”
“Let’s start with giving everything back” The next moment, Jaden grabbed Cecilia and tore open her dress, “I remember this dress, it was
a custom–made piece I had specially designed by a master tailor. It was meant as a gift for Little Oriole.”
Wher, they were kids, Little Onole always told him the dreamed of wearing a white dress.
Back then, her family was too poor to afford even a new skirt. She wore nothing but dusty second–hand clothes.
Go he had that dress made especially for her, to give to her when he finally found her
But now, that gift, meant for someone pure and precious, had ended up on a fraud. The dress split open !!
