Lotus must admit that she thought that she will be treated the worst— as in the very worst a person can imagine. She thought of ways how to clean, and be a 'professional' slave. She readied herself for the worst because after all, she is an illegitimate child of the later patriarch of the Lax family, and a bastard used by her mother against the Baldwin family. She was used as an object and not a human. She understands that her stepsister will treat her the worst. And for that, she suddenly misses Dhan— her stepbrother. She bit her lip to suppress the whimper that wants to escape from her mouth. Her chest feels like being gripped by a thousand hands and was about to burst because of extreme suffocation. Her throat is like being clogged that she hardly swallowed it. This is hell, she

