Chapter 50

"Let go!" Calliope struggled. "Your mom told you already, didn't she?" Lucien's lips curved into a cold sneer. "If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have grown up without a mother!" "It was Angelina! She was the one who fought to the end trying to get my mom to the hospital!" "Calliope, you keep saying I owe you, but everything messed up in my life-it all started because of your family!" Calliope froze, staring at him blankly. "...What did you just say?" "Cut the act!" Lucien's eyes were filled with raw hatred. "You knew all about it, didn't you? You and I were doomed from the start. There's been blood between us from the beginning!" "You think I cared about you? I was just playing along. The more I spoiled you, the worse it'd hurt when I finally let you go." But what he didn't expect... After Angelina died, after her parents were gone too-he actually couldn't bring himself to be so heartless anymore. He started craving her touch, obsessing over the pale skin marked only by him, clinging