CHAPTER 295 ASPYN

Claire thought she could never hate Hudson more than how she felt when he chained her to the clinic bed, but she was wrong. While she stared at him, her body was shaking with incandescent rage. The warm bath water boiled hotter from the heat emanating from her body. Claire’s breath came out ragged as her body trembled in the warm water at Hudson’s words, Aspyn. She remembered the name too well after her thoughts pulled her back to a time she had desperately tried to forget. Hudson’s mention of the name wasn’t just an insult; it was a wound, an unhealed scar that tore open at the mere mention of that woman. Aspyn was the only daughter of Dame Hortense, the spoiled brat who had spent her teenage years making Claire’s life miserable, treating her like she was beneath her. Claire’s mind flooded with memories she had buried deep, each one rising to the surface with painful clarity. She remembered how Aspyn had bullied her when they were younger. While Aspyn was beautiful, always pois