Chapter 24 Turning (II)

Last night, Lily Parker had waited at the dormitory entrance the entire night without seeing Ethan Hart. His phone was perpetually unreachable. When a classmate informed her that Ethan had an accident just outside the school gates, she felt a momentary disconnect, as though she'd misheard. But the harsh reality soon set in. By the time she'd ascertained which hospital he'd been taken to and rushed over, she was told outsiders couldn't enter, and to the Harts, she was just that - an outsider, someone they never acknowledged.

There, Isabella de Valois, usually with gentle eyes, now had a gaze sharp as venom. Unexpectedly, she slapped Lily, her voice thick with menace, "You still wish to go in and humiliate yourself further? First, he fought with his family for you, placing the company in jeopardy, and then he had this accident rushing to see you. Aren't you satisfied? Do you want him dead to feel content?"

It was then that Lily truly understood. Isabella's kindness towards her was for E