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“Yeah, I did go to prison.” Talia looked around at everyone, then at Valerie.
Valerie tried to grab Talia’s hand. “Tally, stop talking. nonsense. I told you, I spoke without thinking.”
Talia pulled away, not wanting Valerie to touch her, and yanked her hand out.
But somehow, Valerie tripped on her dress and fell to the ground.
It was a pretty bad fall. There were still shards of glass on the floor from the broken wine glass that hadn’t been cleaned up yet.
Kendrick immediately rushed over, pushed through the crowd, and helped Valerie up.
Valerie’s palm was a bloody mess, with several shards of glass stuck in her skin.
Kendrick’s eyes were blazing with anger. The way he glared at Talia was seriously scary. “Talia, you just never learn! warned you…”
Talia felt a pang in her heart. She knew Kendrick didn’t have feelings for her, but seeing him protect another girl still made
her heart ache.
“What did I do? I pulled my hand away, and she fell.”
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Seeing their fingers locked together, Talia felt a bitter irony. She stopped looking at Kendrick and instead lowered her eyes, gently touching a spot on her chest.
Hidden there was a pendant, a gift from someone in the past.
In prison, whenever she felt like she was about to break, it was this pendant that helped her hold on.
When she looked up again, her eyes were cold.
She forced a smile and continued, “Yeah, I did go to prison, but I was framed.”
Maeve’s face turned sour when Talia publicly admitted to having been in that kind of place.
At first, when Valerie mentioned Talia’s time in jail, she thought Valerie did it on purpose.
But seeing Valerie apologize to Talia in public and try hard to cover up what happened, she started to think maybe it was just an accident.
Valerie, who she had known since she was little, couldn’t possibly be that mean.
Maeve didn’t want any trouble, so she tried to down ‘ay the whole thing. “Talia, you’re drunk. I’ll have someone take you upstairs to sober up.”
Talia seemed not to hear her and continued, “If I had
kidnapped Valerie three years ago, I’d have made sure she vanished without a trace. Why would I leave clues for you to find her?”
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A hard slap hit Talia’s face. David had come out of the study without anyone noticing.
With a cold face, he yelled, “Talia, what are you talking about? Shut up right now!”
Talia’s cheek was burning with pain, but she didn’t give a damn.
“Back then, Valerie just had some minor injuries. If those guys really wanted to force themselves on her, they would have done it when they tied her up and put her in the car. Why go through all the trouble of taking her to an abandoned factory? Isn’t that overkill?”
The people watching were all shocked. They had no idea this was the story.
Valerie was almost raped by some lowlifes?
The glances and whispers started to focus on Valerie, who bit her lip and turned pale.
David was mad at Talia. This was a forbidden topic in the Taylor family, and no one had dared to mention it in three years. But Talia brought it up in front of so many people.
It was embarrassing!
Talia ended up in prison, and Valerie was almost raped, all because they were at each other’s throats!
The Taylor family’s reputation was in tatters!
Valerie, standing nearby, was crying her eyes out. She kept her head down, her shoulders shaking as tears rolled down and splashed on the floor.
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Talia sneered. She thought, “Valerie can’t take it already?
“Compared to what I’ve been through, this is nothing!”
Maeve glared at Talia, signaling her to shut up. This whole thing was decided three years ago. She and David agreed to send Talia to prison to straighten her out because she
wouldn’t admit she was wrong, and they figured she was a lost cause.
She had wondered if the punishment was too harsh. After all, Talia was a Taylor.
But Valerie said it was because of Talia’s family background that the people in prison didn’t dare to do anything to her. If they didn’t use this chance to teach her a lesson, she might go down the wrong path in the future.
Maeve thought it made sense. After all, Talia was raised by Chloe.
Who was Chloe?
She had a son who gambled and loafed around all day. Talia grew up in that kind of environment, so it was about time to toughen her up.
“Talia, why are you bringing this up now?” Maeve’s ce was a picture of fury, and she looked thoroughly annoyed. “Don’t you see Valerie is crying?”
A hint of mockery crossed Talia’s cold face. “Yeah, I spent time in prison for her, and she’s crying.”
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