No More Doormat: Dump The Fiancé, Snag The Underworld Emperor

you!" Emily J

ed into Cl

orced her head up. Her voice trembled a

epmother, had joined the Jones

e real family and had given her the kind of

imagined that Emily

h rage and hurt, and the betrayal from s

er flat stomach, and trium

p with spite, "If you're still here, how are Rob

ba

t b

hts, and a tall figure stepped out and walked toward them. I

had been secretly involved with

he drew closer, searching his

t, he said, "Stop wasting time on her. Get it over with. Send her to

was you. My grandmother, my father, and my brother...?

self upright and felt a fierce, s

own with her, Clara threw herself at her st

d back, but Clara's nail stil

rshipped her own reflection let out a wild snarl. "

and, and pressed a scarlet finge

out the twisted smile on Emily's face

regret twiste

was a way to

Clara's world

.

ss the sky as rain ham

found herself sitting in the far corner of a sch

tiny mirror on the table, she saw herself wearing a wedding

es rang out f

t to marry her? Look at her-she just won't quit. St

dn't keep begging? I heard she's hoping to tie the knot with

daggers, but something even more start

the moment of her ninety-

ashed over h

atedly in the mirror-no s

't just a

ore her twentieth birthday. All of her l

e in ages, hope s

, determined to walk

ditorium doors, and student

Robert striding into the hall, crisp in a

nd striking, but Clara now caught the impa

eir families, and when Clara was brought back from the countryside by the Jon

her from the moment she returned, and everyone

refused to let the sam

e," Robert muttered as he reached her, a polite smile on his

e proposed a hundred times in public, he woul

hed that hundredth public plea, he betr

Clara's eyes like a ma

had prepared for Robert, she flung it st