Chapter 24

After scrutinizing Yasmin for a while, Blake said, "You got what you deserved."

This set Yasmin alight. "I got attacked for nothing, and you think I deserved it?"

"You deserved it because you didn't even think about retaliating despite them ganging up on you."

Yasmin was taken aback. "I did fight back. There were just too many of them. Besides, they're all socialites and daughters of affluent families. I'm a nobody. How could I go against them?"

"Just go all out. I'd like to see whether any of them would dare to come after you."

This stunned Yasmin into silence. What did Blake mean by that? Would he protect her? She couldn't understand what he meant, so she looked at him.

Blake's face was devoid of emotion. He tilted her head up and applied some ointment on her face. The cooling sensation of it soothed the sting from the slaps.

Yasmin was finding him harder and harder to read. He kept saying that he despised her and the Starr family, but he actually treated her pretty well. In t