Chapter 4

'So all those times they sighed and acted so worried about Charlotte in front of me, and Andrew's endless sarcasm and mockery. They were all just a performance for my benefit?'

'Was it just to keep reminding me how cold-hearted I used to be, so I wouldn't notice what Charlotte was really going through?' I asked myself deep inside.

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It was a small birthday party for Charlotte at the villa, with some of her friends invited.

My real parents, Andrew, and even Peter, who had claimed he was away on a business trip, were all there.

I stood in…