Chapter 420
Andrew’s face was as pale as a sheet, and he slumped to the floor. His hair, always perfectly styled, hung in messy strands over his forehead.
“I didn’t know. I didn’t know it was…” he kept mumbling those words, completely lost for what else to say.
Emily cut him off, “You didn’t know, so I’m just supposed to forgive you for handing me over? Pretend nothing ever happened and keep playing the good, obedient little sister? Seriously, you think that’s possible?”
Andrew was at a loss for words, unable to argue back. Because deep down, that was what he thought. But with Emily’s mocking gaze fixed on him, he just couldn’t bring himself to say it out loud.
For the first time in his life, Andrew, born with a silver spoon in his mouth and always surrounded by people who catered to him, felt utterly humiliated.
After a long silence, he said, “What will it take for you to forgive me?”
Emily couldn’t understand why the Bennett family was so intent on getting her forgiveness. If they had already abandoned her, then they should have just cut her off completely.
After doing all those awful things, they pretended to be saints. Emily thought, ‘What’s the difference between praising at prostitute for being more chaste than a nun?”
Emily stared at Andrew with a smile. She said, “Aren’t you supposed to be some businessman, Mr. Bennett? If you want my forgiveness, shouldn’t you at least stand where I stand before you even think about asking?”
She had never pretended to be a good person. Back when the Bennett family spoiled her, she was never the type to waste time feeling guilty. If something pissed her off, she’d get even right then and there.
It was only because the Bennett family doted on her that no one dared to cross her. Instead, they called her fiery and radiant, the brightest jewel of them all.
So, if Andrew wanted her forgiveness, he’d have to feel the same pain she did. Only then would he even have the right to ask if she could forgive him.
Andrew got what she was saying, and his face went even paler, like all the blood had drained out of him. His lips trembled, but he couldn’t get a single word out.

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