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Chapter 252

She never used to be like that. She’d always scream when she was scared, and cry when she was hurt. She was never the type to bottle things up. ‘Since when did she turn into someone I barely recognize?’ Lucas wondered.

The sharp sound of brakes cut through the air as Lucas slammed the car to a stop on the side of the road. Fortunately, Emily had braced herself just in time, steadying her body and narrowly avoiding smacking her head.

But the plastic charm hanging from the rearview mirror swung forward with the force of the stop and smacked Emily right

in the ear.

The charm looked small and cute, but it wasn’t exactly high-quality. There were even rough edges around it. One of those jagged edges struck Emily’s ear, leaving a thin line of blood behind.

Lucas’s expression shifted slightly when he saw it. “I didn’t mean to do that. Are you… Are you okay?” Emily didn’t say a word. She just glanced up at the charm still swinging from the mirror.

Lucas had always insisted on having the best of everything. A cheap little trinket like that was obvious who it came from.

Sure enough, Lucas quickly explained, “This is a gift from Lydia. If it hurt you, I apologize.” He looked so defensive, like he was afraid Emily might just throw the charm away.

Emily forced a smirk. “So, Mr. Bennett, it’s not that you hate getting gifts from people. You just prefer these cheap plastic trinkets you can pick up for a couple bucks at a street stall, right?”

After the Bennett family cut off her allowance, she secretly sold her favorite set of jewelry and even borrowed money from a friend, just to have a custom set of collar clips and cufflinks made for Lucas’s birthday.

But when Lucas got the gift, he just sneered at her in disgust. “I don’t like getting gifts from others, especially from someone with such a nasty heart as you. I think it’s dirty.”

Then, right in front of Emily, he tossed her gift straight into the trash and turned around, beaming to accept Lydia’s present.

After that, he didn’t even give Emily a chance to pay her friend back before he dragged her off to St. Gabriel Reform Academy. Lucas’s face went a little pale as he was clearly reminded of that incident.

Back then, he had no idea that Emily had sold her own belongings just to have that custom gift made for him.