No sooner had Grandpa Filipe left my room than Mira burst right in. And yet, at that very moment, I wanted to take a bath—to cool off my body, which felt so hot.
“Bella, what did Grandpa Filipe just say to you?” she asked right away, looking curious.
I didn’t answer right away; instead, I looked at her suspiciously. Had Bella really believed her stepmother all this time? Had Bella all this time thought of this woman as a fairy godmother? If that were true, Bella was truly foolish!
Ah, I forgot that I, too, had been foolish for five years, deceived by David and Lidia. I was foolish enough to walk away from a career on the rise; I was foolish to entrust the company to them. It ended with me being murdered, but I won’t let them live happily at the expense of my suffering.
“Why are you so
