THIRTY-FIVEWhat time was it already, yet her eyes remained wide open. Sleep refused to visit her because of everything she had found out. She couldn't shake off his final words—that her father had become addicted to gambling. She didn't want to believe it because she knew her father was not the type to gamble.Thus, a massive question lingered in her mind, alongside the mortgaging of their properties. She couldn't fathom that he had put them up as collateral, considering they had never lacked or run short of money as far as she knew. She had no recollection of them ever being in financial distress, making everything he said feel completely impossible.Even now, her mind kept racing, especially after learning that he wasn't there and had left because someone allegedly set fire to his plantation. She had been overthinking for a while now, for Andrei's last statement was that he intended to seek revenge against her parents, driving her to imagine all sorts of terrible scenarios.Despite
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