Chapter 216

But Spencer now claimed he had never been happy during their time together. What a joke. Clementine emptied another bottle of liquor. She hadn't wanted to go to Pavrielle, either, but Edmund had given her no choice. She had grown up in an orphanage, and then one day, someone appeared out of nowhere to adopt her. He gave her a beautiful house, hired a housekeeper, enrolled her in dance classes, and handed her a bottomless bank account. She didn't even meet her so-called adoptive parent until she was ten. That was the first time Edmund told her he would be her godfather from now on. By the time she got to college, she slowly began to understand who Edmund really was, but she had no choice. It was fate. Everything had been decided from the moment she was born. Still, she couldn't accept it. She hadn't chosen her past, but her feelings for Spencer were real. Back then, she couldn't bring herself to go to Pavrielle so easily. … In the bedroom, after their intimate moment, Spencer and