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Chapter 268 Adriana was not the same as before

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last update Last Updated: 2025-04-22 11:05:16

Maria didn’t dare tell her brother the whole truth. She tried to cover it up with an explanation.

“She’s the reason Dad went to jail, and our family ended up like this! Life used to be so good. Now there’s nothing left. I… I just couldn’t help getting angry. I only wanted to scare her a little, to punish her. I didn’t mean to really hurt her.”

In James’s heart, although he knew his sister could be a little willful and loved to play around, she hadn’t complained much even though life had become harder in recent years. Given her timid nature, he doubted she would go too far in acting against Adriana. So he tried to comfort her.

“Since she wasn’t hurt and was rescued in time, there’s no reason she’d come back to retaliate against you. Besides, our dad’s imprisonment was because of her. She probably feels guilty about what happened to our family.”

Hearing her brother explain it that way, Maria’s fragile state of mind began to rebuild itself.

Right. Adriana was the guilty one. She had no r
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