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Chapter 300

Author: Cloudy Max
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Nicole's POV

I faced my father, leaving behind the two men who seemed to be making a good choice by not following me. I was still feeling disoriented, and my breathing was ragged. My gaze was fixed on my father, who was also looking back at me with a fixed gaze.

He spoke first. "Have you figured it out now?"

I looked at my father, who still looked pale, especially at his mouth. It seemed to contrast with his white hair and slightly tanned skin. He didn't look any better than me, perhaps even worse, because the man he had long considered a friend had stabbed him in the back.

Still, it also made me remember everything I had to go through at the Martinez Family residence.

All the humiliation and torture that those two women, as well as my foster father, had put me through should not have been necessary. Although I loved my dead foster mother, without him, I was completely alone there.

The tears I had been holding back finally fell down my cheeks. "Just now, Father. It's... excruciating."
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