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Chapter 259 Did you send him to jail to please Calvin?

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last update Last Updated: 2025-04-21 13:43:50

The team’s scheduled return was the day after the trial verdict, and everyone except Adriana had already boarded the flight back to New York.

There was no longer the pressure of war-like preparation, no longer the torment of choosing sides—yet Adriana felt no relief. Guilt and anger haunted her constantly. Persistent neurasthenia left her sleepless through the night. And even when she did manage to fall asleep, she was shaken awake by nightmares.

In her dreams, her uncle stretched out his arm to accuse her: “I loved you in vain all these years. You turned against me. Ungrateful girl!”

Other times, her cousins would take turns yelling at her, strangling her, forcing her to apologize to her uncle.

The hardest dream of all was the one with her mother.

Her mother stood before her, eyes brimming with tears, her voice breaking: “Adria, I’m so disappointed in you. For Calvin, you betrayed your uncle.

You don’t deserve to be my daughter. I have no daughter like you!”

Then her mother would beg
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