Chapter 529

"My father watched me get tortured with cold eyes. Celine and Joseph actually saw me chained up and tormented, but they turned away in disgust, pretending they never saw anything. I was held there for a full five years. Grandpa was busy running the company and never noticed I'd gone missing. "I lay in that underground room. The woman left a skylight open so I could see the outside world but never leave—she wanted me to become insane. Sometimes she covered it with a board, so it went completely dark. "She might have forgotten I was still alive. Maybe it lasted days or maybe just a few hours. I had no idea; there was only pitch-black darkness. That's why now, I can't stand being in the dark." "Sometimes I thought escaping wouldn't matter, because nobody outside cared about me anyway. I trusted no one. "From the moment I was born, all I'd encountered were malice and schemes. Even my mother took me away for the benefits of the Wentworth family and sent me back when she found a man t