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Chapter Forty Eight: To our Bitter Past
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“If you are expecting an apology from me Ryan, you are definitely not getting one”, Selena said nonchalantly.

Spence smiled sardonically “I wasn't expecting one,I am just baffled on why?”

“I despised you back then,for being everything I could never be,is that enough of a response?”

“Yet you searched endlessly for me,was that out of guilt?” Spence taunted her.

His gut instinct says Selena is hiding a lot more.

He could only get her to talk if he could successfully taunt her.

“Are you done? Reverse psychology is my stronghold young man,I need to take a nap,you know the way to the door Ryan”, Selena said and winked at him.

Spence felt a bit pissed with her confidence despite her atrocity.

At the time,he wasn't more than three years old, so leaving him in a cold alley was really dangerous.

What if the grieving Mrs Wellington hadn't found him?

He got up on his feet and walked out of the mansion with a heap of questions in his mind.

Peter picked up his phone after ensuring Gabriella was ou
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