Chapter 407

Callen snapped, glaring at Danna. "Yeah, you're right. This whole mess is karma. Meeting you? My damn punishment!" Danna didn't move, just watched as Callen stormed off. She was his karma, and he was hers. Heh… When exactly had she fallen for him? Danna could still remember it clearly. Back then, before Beckett's mom passed away and Ruby managed to push her way in as the mistress, Stanton didn't bother with Danna, Clinton, or their mom. All to keep up the family's reputation and appease his legal wife. So she and Clinton grew up with Ruby in some tiny apartment in a run-down neighborhood. The first time she returned to the Beach family home, everyone treated her like trash—mocking, judging, ridiculing. She was just a kid then, ashamed and devastated. She ran out, crying, and hid in the bushes. That's when Callen found her and handed her a box of chocolates. That was the first time she saw him, and she was instantly drawn in. He had that effortless, upper-class rich guy aura, even in a