NovelEnglishChapter 383
Audrey's POV
| stood in the shower with my eyes closed. Hot water beat against my scalp, washing away egg residue that still
smelled like something had died weeks ago. Three rounds of shampoo hadn't killed the stench.
This morning should have felt like victory. I'd finally confronted the Sinclairs and exposed their lies with solid
proof. Instead, | just felt empty.
| grabbed the shampoo again and poured too much into my palm. My nails dug into my scalp as | scrubbed,
though the egg was long gone.
The Sinclairs had never been real family, so their betrayal was expected. But Rachel? She'd been my first actual
friend. I'd always told myself she abandoned our friendship because | was already “dead” - just moving on with
her life. Made sense. | wouldn't hold that against anyone.
But today showed the truth. Rachel hadn't cared aboutfor a long time. She stole my design drafts and
accused my “twin” of plagiarism. She sent those girls to ambushwith rotten eggs.
My phone rang through the bathroom door. I shut off the water, wrapped myself in a towel, and padded across
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtthe carpet leaving wet footprints.
“Hello?”
‘Cdownstairs.” Adrian's voice sounded different. “Everyone who should be here has arrived.”
| heard crying in the background. “What are you doing?”
“Nothing much. Just making an example. These girls need to be punished in front of whoever sent them. So
whoever sent them knows my wife isn’t someone to mess with.”
The crying got louder.
“Don’t do anything stupid,” I said. “I'm coming down now.”
| quickly dried off and threw on whatever clothes were closest. My hair was still dripping as I rushed to the
elevator.
The hotel plaza had been cleared of guests. Security guards stood far back, deliberately looking anywhere but at
what was happening. | stopped short at what | saw.
The heavy girl and her friends were kneeling in a row with their faces covered in egg. But that wasn’t what made
Rachel stood nearby, white as a sheet. Adrian stood in front of the girls looking completely calm.
The only sounds were the wind and the girls’ quiet moaning.
‘Please stop, Rachel begged, reaching for Adrian's hands. “They're just kids...”
Adrian laughed. “If | spare them, will you spare my wife?”
Rachel's mouth opened, but nothing cout. She spottedapproaching and looked relieved.
After a moment, she straightened up. “I don’t know what you mean.”
“Really?” | walked up to them. “Is it that you don’t know, or you don’t want to admit it?”
Rachel spun around, startled by my voice.
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You knew exactly what happened as soon as Adrian called,” | said coldly. “Now you're pretending you don’t know
what these girls did to me?”
Rachel's POV
| turned toward her voice instinctively.
There she was fresh from the shower with wet hair dripping down her shoulders, walking with a confidence that
the old Audrey never had.
Memories crashed over me. When | first met Audrey, she was this shy, insecure thing at the care facility. Head
always down, barely speaking, just doing her job and reading books.
Back then, | was angry all the time. My mother had remarried, and | was constantly bullied by my stepfather and
Laurel. | took it out on Audrey because she never fought back just smiled and took it.
Eventually, | felt bad for her. | started taking her racing, camping, to bars. | taught her to dance, to drink, to live
a little. Watched her slowly becmore confident.
| thought | was being nice. Until five years ago, when she saved Blake.
By then, she wasn’t that quiet girl anymore. She would talk with Blake about books they’d both read, music they
both liked. For the first time, | regretted helping her cout of her shell.
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