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Chapter 481

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Liesel's smile reached her eyes after she heard Elijah's decisive response.

Something warm filled his empty heart as Elijah gazed at her bright smile. His restlessness and irritability settled instantly. The vague pain and inconsolable fear he felt had been mollified.

He pulled Liesel into a tight embrace as if trying to make her part of himself.

After Matthew and Edward left the dinner party, Ophelia felt too humiliated to stay any longer.

She had grown up in a world where everything was either right or wrong. She always believed that her father and brother were the paragons of goodness. They embodied everything that was right. She saw them as her role models. How could they possibly be the villains described by Howard?

Ophelia had met so many people who praised her for her beauty and brilliance. No one had ever called her cruel, let alone foolish.

Everything she experienced today was too much for her to process. She felt as though she was falling apart.

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