After Lance mentioned that name, everyone in the room, except for Celia, Yardley, and Chandler, gave Angelica weird gazes. She had seemed so pitiable just a moment earlier.Angelica's heart chilled, and her face darkened. She hadn't expected that her concealed scars from over a decade ago would be exposed so brutally in this situation.She had thought that she was about to secure her happiness.Angelica fell into silence, lost in her memories.Back then, after her stepmother had left, she had become a young and helpless child who'd had no one to care for her. Hence, the police had sent her to an orphanage.There had been many other children at the orphanage.At first, Angelica had thought she would make new friends. She hadn't thought that she had much to lose, considering how terrible her original home had been.But the other kids there had somehow learned of her background. They had all been children that no one wanted, yet none of them had been willing to play with her. They
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