Mia and her mother were brought in front of me by Victor’s people.I almost didn’t recognize the old woman as Mia’s mother.She wore dark clothes, no makeup, fine wrinkles etched around her eyes, gray at her temples. She looked sixty or seventy.Mia looked exhausted too, nothing like her old delicate, pampered self.In less than two years, they’d been worn down into this.They’d clearly suffered.I won’t lie, seeing them like this felt satisfying.But along with the satisfaction came a cold sadness.Back then, Victor and Julian adored Mia.And Julian, he’d treated Mia’s mother with such respect.I’d suffered so much because of their protection and favoritism.But after I left, they turned around and took their anger out on Mia and her mother.Their love, their hatred, their likes and dislikes. They were all so cheap.I admitted it: I hated Mia and her mother. I loathed them.But now, I loathed Victor and Julian even more.If Mia and her mother were pure bad, pure poison, then Victor an
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