Chapter 4

Hugo stared at the dog tooth in my hand. His lips trembled violently.

I had once begged Hugo to give it back to me.

During those dark, hopeless days, it had been the only thing that kept me alive.

But back then, he refused to listen to a single word I said. Instead, he slapped me again and accused me of pretending to be pitiful just to gain sympathy to frame Quiana.

“Take her back to her room.”

Theo took a deep breath and forced himself to stay calm.

Their attitude toward me had noticeably softened.

At the very least, the bodyguards no longer dragged me around like I was a piece of trash.

They took me back upstairs.

The moment the bedroom door opened, I finally let out a long sigh of relief.

To be honest, I never wanted to go through those hellish days in the basement or out in the snow ever again.

That night, I went to my brothers and carefully told them that I wanted to move back into my old room.

Theo sat on the couch with a deep frown.

He looked at me for a long time. I thought he was about to lose his temper again, but in the end, he simply nodded.

When I finally returned to the room that felt both familiar and unfamiliar, a strange warmth rose in my heart.

My brothers had cleaned the room. They had put everything back where it belonged.

The music box on the desk, the teddy bear beside the bed, and even the clothes in the wardrobe were all the ones I used to love.

Then I walked over to the desk.

I picked up the things that had once belonged to me, and I froze.

Everywhere my name, Moon Langford, had once appeared, it had been replaced with Quiana White.

I yanked open the drawer. I flipped through the photo album. I unlocked the small cabinet.

In the family photo, my picture had been replaced with Quiana’s. She had covered my diary, which was filled with my deepest secrets, with disgusting scribbles.

Quiana had scratched my name off the protective charm my mother had left me. The lucky charm my brothers had prayed for and gotten for me when I was little had also been re-engraved with Quiana’s name.

I completely lost control.

“Ahhh!”

Like a madwoman, I tore my diary to shreds and smashed the protective charm my mother had left me into pieces.

I grabbed the lucky charm my brothers had gotten for me and used it to smash everything in the room that could be broken. I pulled every piece of clothing out of the wardrobe and threw it onto the floor.

The commotion quickly drew everyone upstairs.

The moment my brothers saw the room in complete chaos and my frantic outburst, their faces changed. They rushed over to stop me.

“Have you lost your mind?! What are you doing?!”

Xander wrapped both arms around my waist and pulled me back with all his strength.

Hugo looked at the diary that had been torn to pieces and the shattered protective charm my mother had left me. His whole body shook with rage.

“I knew you were putting on an act! You’re Quiana after all! You still hate everything that belonged to Moon!”

“I hate her?”

I stopped struggling and turned to glare at them.

I suddenly held the lucky charm up in front of them.

My brothers had gotten it for me when I was born seriously ill. The three of them had gone to the church together. Each of them had shaved half their head as an offering.

They had prayed for forty-nine days before they received this lucky charm to protect me and keep me alive.

“You keep saying you loved Moon, yet you wouldn’t even leave her name on the things that belonged to her!”

I used every bit of strength I had and threw the lucky charm out the window.

“I don’t want this stupid thing anymore!”

The lucky charm flew dozens of yards through the night before it disappeared into the darkness.

“You’re asking for it!”

Theo completely lost his temper. He raised his hand and charged toward me.

The moment he charged over, I turned around and climbed onto the windowsill.

The night wind blew through my thin nightgown.

As my body tipped backward, I saw the terror on their faces.

“I pray not to be your sister in my next life.”