His Domineering Lover
Chapter 664

Renee collapsed to the ground. It was beyond her expectation that Bradley refused to help her because of Tracey.

'Tracey, Tracey, the damned Tracey again!' She repeated this name in her mind thousands of times. 'This woman is a bane of my life!' Renee came downstairs in low spirits. Bradley was already sitting next to the table.

His concubines sat around another table, and Bradley sat alone to have a large table to his own, aloof and coldly.

"Please sit down and have breakfast with us, Miss Xia." The butler always had a smile on his face.

Renee shook her head, "No, thanks." There was no reason for her to linger here. Bradley already made it clear that he would not help her. "Then I'll arrange a car to send you home. It won't be easy for you to hail a taxi here and today." The butler was thoughtful and considerate. "Thank you." Renee did not refuse this kindness. She would have to walk home if she refused.

It was still snowing, and Renee felt chilly in the piercing wind after coming out of the villa.

It was a beautiful snow day, but Renee had no mood to appreciate it and felt cold only.

The car drove forward. The chauffeur recognized her. "Miss Xia, where should we go?"

"I..." All of a sudden, Renee felt lost. She still wore yesterday's makeup and felt tired.

She provided an address. She decided to go back to her apartment to have a shower and take a rest before breakdown.

She dragged herself home. When still in the Xia family, Carmen didn't get up until ten o'clock in the morning and named it beauty sleep.

Now she got rid of this habit because of the practice in the prison and her own insecurity.

She would be wakened up by a small noise at night and got up early in the morning.

When Renee reached home, Carmen was eating sweet dumplings alone by the table, "Renee? Good timing. Come to have some sweet dumplings I made last night." "Mom, I need to take a shower first."

"Well, hurry up. I cook you some now. It won't take long." Carmen had not noticed Renee's depression yet.

"Mmm." Renee dashed to take a shower. Later, she came out in pajamas, and Carmen beckoned her to come over. "Come try my dumplings. It should be your first time eating the sweet dumplings I made." "Yep, the first time. The chef would cook whatever we name. And you never cook." Renee seemed to feel sad.

"Come on. I think I am leading a good life. After all those sufferings, I come to understand that nothing is more important than freedom and health."

"I was still a child the last time I made sweet dumplings. Come, we will stay together in the coming year if we have sweet dumplings at this festival. Leo keeps staying outside yesterday and today."

Carmen complained in a low voice, but she didn't mean to blame Leo. In Carmen's heart, he was always her little boy who hadn't grown up yet.

Renee felt bad at the mention of Leo. She bit a sweet dumpling, and there was brown sugar in it.

"Those dumplings sold in the supermarkets are stuffed with fruits, sesame, or peanuts, and few people make dumplings with brown sugar now."

"I still remember that your grandma taught me to make dumplings at the wooden table when I was a child. Time flies, and you are grown man and woman now."

Carmen seldom missed her childhood when leading an extravagant life in the Xia family. Now, the old times flashed past her mind from time to time.

"Mom, you never talked about my grandparents and we have never seen them. Why?"

"There is a reason for it. I was once a top student, the pride of my parents."

"I got admitted into the best high school in the city, and your grandparents were thrilled at this. I was a little girl from a poor place. Like the old tale has it, I lost myself in the prosperous city." "I met some new friends, and they laughed at my coarse dress."

"I was nickname outdated girl, though I had good grades. They looked down at me."

"Mom..." Renee felt complex at this old story Carmen mentioned for the first time.

"Their jeers shook my brief that good grades meant everything. And I started to dress up."

"My family was a common one, and my parents tried their best to provide me schooling. So I had limited living expenses."

"I could afford only cheap goods, but I had my advantages in appearance and stature. I attracted attention with a little dress-up."

"Boys kept hitting on me, dating me, and showering me presents, while girls felt jealous of me. Now they mocked me about the cheap goods."

"I was infuriated. They excelled me only in the family background, and I was determined to change my life."

"I started to do part-time jobs during vacations and weekends. Then, I met a man who changed my life course."

"He was married but proposed to give me three thousand every month if I agreed to be his mistress. It was a great price at that age!"

"So, my material life improved greatly, and no one dared to look down on me anymore. On the other hand, my study was a mess."

"I was the bottom of the class in the second semester of Grade 11.1 soothed myself with the excuse that all those studies and going to a good college served the goal of earning good money, so it was not a bad thing that I started it now and in advance."

"I enjoyed my life until I was pregnant. That man already had children with his wife. His wife made a scene in my school after replaceing out my presence." "I was expelled from the school, and my parents felt ashamed of me. They scolded me."

"I didn't feel like staying in that poor place, so I came out to work in a big city. Gradually, I found those regular jobs boring and tiring."

"Later, I was introduced to be a hostess in a nightclub. The pay was good, though the job was demeaning. There were lots of rich men, come-and- go, and I would like to replace one who was willing to provide for me." "However, selecting a wrong path led me astray..."