Chapter 3

I kept silent, my throat clogged as if stuffed with cotton. Every breath felt painfully hard.

Dad didn't even hesitate. He just gave me a direct order.

He said that because I acted on my own, Simone was shaken, and if I truly cared, I wouldn't have gone behind their backs and sold stuff.

"Once Simone gets better, we'll give you whatever you want. Why do you have to go against us at a time like this?" he said.

His voice was more severe than I'd ever heard before.

It was a world apart from how he'd greeted me when…