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‘I would have iven the chance! I’ve been here for teeks and it feels like a life sentence’

How could her father do this to her? Thanks to him, she’d been cut off from everyone Left alone at a time when she desperately needed human comfort

The shocking discovery she’d made only teeks earlier had left her numb and eht had gone forever So had the naive assuh out her life

Regret tore through her

You shouldn’t have looked, Bella

Like Pandora, she’d lifted the lid of the box and now she was paying the price

‘You allow erips its prey’ Atif watched her with the saether ‘You are angry, but your father sent you here for your own benefit’

‘He sent me here as a punishment because I embarrassed him’ Bella wrapped her arms around herself and wondered how she could feel cold in such a hot, oppressive place ‘I’ve eht the Balfour naain’ But no one had considered what the whole sordid incident had done to her And the fact that no one had considered her feelings simply increased her sense of abandonment

Reht of the Balfour Ball, Bella felt a lump build in her throat She wanted to kno her sister Olivia was feeling about the whole thing—she wanted to make amends

Her behaviour had been bad—she knew that But she’d been goaded Upset And Olivia had said things too…

‘Can I have my phone back just to send one text?’ Suddenly it seemed desperately important that she contact her twin ‘Or could I use your computer? I haven’t checked my emails for teeks’

‘That isn’t possible, Bella’