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Chapter 526 A Decade of Deception
Bianca’s words struck a chord deep within Natalie, solidifying her wavering beliefs.
Indeed, substitutes were real…!
But how could this be happening to her?
That was a riddle she couldn’t solve in this lifetime.
“Nat…” Bianca glanced at her.
“Blair, huh…” Natalie sneered with a hint of sarcasm.
After she mentioned Blair, she took another gulp of her wine.
Bianca paused, looking puzzled. “Who’s that?”
“The apple of Cedric and Irwin’s eyes,” Natalie responded, her voice dripping with irony.
Bianca fell silent.
What?!
Natalie chuckled again.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“Stop drinking,” Bianca said.
“It was all a sham, you know?” Natalie slurred, her voice drenched in intoxication.
“Nat,” Bianca tried to reason.
At that moment, Bianca grasped the gravity of Natalie’s revelations about her visit to
Wexford.
She grabbed Natalie’s wrist firmly, “Enough drinking, okay?”
“All of it was fake. Everything…!” Natalie reiterated.
Though she had seemingly moved on and tried to be indifferent, learning that a decade of
her life was a lie struck Natalie like a thunderbolt.
How could it not?
She had let go of those ten years because she had been too hurt by it. But now that
everything was placed before her again…
She still felt an unprecedented blow to her heart.
It wasn’t just the pain of the past but realizing that everything with both Cedric and Irwin
was a sham!
The shock was palpable, not just for Natalie but also for Bianca after the latter heard
about this
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“So, to them, you were just Blair’s substitute?”
With that revelation, the world of both Bianca and Natalie seemed to shatter.
A substitute?
Such a reality was piercingly painful.
Bianca was furious!
From the moment Cedric pursued Natalie, she had felt they were mismatched, not only
just because of their different social standings.
Bianca’s intuition, honed by her experience as a lawyer, had always whispered to her that
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmCedric didn’t truly love Natalie.
So, he had really approached Natalie with a purpose!
Reflecting upon it now, her instincts weren’t wrong… they were tragically right!
Cedric hadn’t genuinely loved Natalie from the start.
“Bia.”
“Yeah?”
“Do you find it laughable? A decade,” Natalie’s voice was heavy with sorrow.
Laughable?
It was more than that… it was tragic!
Natalie had done nothing, yet unknowingly, she had been caught in that profound vortex
for
so many years.
“A decade of emotion… a decade of deceit!”
The decade–long emotions from Cedric, coupled with Irwin’s decade–long deceit–what
were these two men to Natalie?
Not just terrifying figures, but profoundly pitiable ones!
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