Bullied and Dumped, But She Won in the End (Adriana) novel Chapter 80

Chapter 80 Memories and Desire

Even now, Adriana still felt wronged.

Seriously, I’m being way too dramatic.

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“Adriana…” Curtis realized he’d pushed things too far and stepped into the bathtub, scooping her out of the water to hold her close. “Tomorrow, I’ll take you for dessert balls.”

Adriana froze in his arms, her body stiffening at the words.

Am I overthinking it again?

Curtis… likes dessert balls?

She had grown up in an orphanage, never tasting Govendale desserts. Dessert balls were the first sweets she had ever had when the Govendale couple adopted her as a child.

That simple dessert had basically blown her mind as a kid.

“Adriana, do you like them? If you like them, I’ll take you to eat them often.” She could still remember the couple saying this to her.

At that time, she truly believed she finally had a family, a mother.

But a year later, she was abandoned again.

That warmth lasted less than a year.

After being adopted, she moved with them to Govendale. In the spring of the following year, her adoptive mother became pregnant.

Pregnancy changed the woman. She grew irritable, quick to anger, and hypersensitive, constantly fearing someone might harm the child in her womb.

Adriana could understand. Her adoptive mom had always wanted a child of her own, and only adopted

her because she couldn’t have one.

She began behaving even more obediently, trying to be clever and helpful. She feared they would reject her. She worked tirelessly, doing chores and farm labor, trying to prove her worth…

But in the third month of her mother’s pregnancy, her adoptive father cheated.

Her mother’s temper grew worse, spiraling into madness. The villagers‘ gossip tortured her daily. She began to believe those rumors, believing Adriana was a curse, bringing misfortune to her marriage and her unborn child.

She started hitting Adriana, withholding food, forcing her to stand in the yard and in the rain, trying to drive her away.

But after a year of warmth, Adriana had already accepted her as a mother, a refuge for her soul.

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Chapter 80 Memories and Desire

She stubbornly endured, refusing to leave, no matter the abuse.

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Finally, one day, when her mother discovered her father’s mistress was pregnant, she lost control and turned on the gas in the house…

Flames engulfed the room, smoke stinging Adriana’s eyes. Lying amidst the smoke, she thought her brief, painful life had finally come to an end…

But she survived.

A young man from the village saved her.

He took her home, fed her, and every day, had someone make dessert balls for her.

He even contacted the local women’s association and the orphanage on her behalf.

Until she left that small village in Govendale, Adriana never truly saw his face. Her eyes had been burned by the fire. After recovering from surgery, she wanted to return to find him–but he was gone, no longer in that village.

Later, the orphanage director took her in. That young man had become a fleeting star in her life.

“You like dessert balls too?” Adriana’s eyes lit up, tears making her large, clear eyes even more captivating.

Curtis wasn’t in the mood to talk about dessert balls. “I like them…”

His voice was hoarse, brows heavy with an irresistible intensity.

He pressed her head down, no longer caring whether she cried from how rough he was.

The rational self he had restrained for 29 years was gone.

Curtis had once scoffed at seduction, mocking the many powerful men in his circle who had fallen for

women.

But now? He got it.

Guess you really don’t know until you’ve tasted it yourself.

He pinned her in the tub for ages, but luckily the water was circulating and temperature–controlled, or she might have caught a cold.

The warm currents of water wrapped around her body, and Curtis’s kisses fell like a spring rain… Adriana honestly thought she might die right there.

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