He quickly calmed down and looked at me coldly. "What? Couldn't stay in Lantis? Didn't you refuse to come back for ten years?"
I bit my lip, unsure of what to say.
At that moment, Emily stood up and walked over, skillfully wrapping her hand around James' arm. Her bright smile turned sarcastic.
"Ms. King, now that your mother has passed away, you have no more ties to the Anderson family. There's no need to stay here, right?"
I looked up at James. His expression was as unchanged as before, calm and unruffled.
Emily seemed to take that as approval, her sharp eyes glancing at me with disdain.
"Didn't you write in your diary that you love James and would do anything for him? Then you should leave quickly and make everyone happy..."
My mind buzzed.
He had read my diary and even shown it to Emily.
I have loved James since I was a child.
Until the year I turned seventeen, he went from being the boy next door to my stepbrother.
That year, he was twenty.
Anyway, there was no blood relation, so it was not a big deal.
But he said, "Olivia, I will eventually drive you out of the Anderson family."
But I never took it seriously and continued to follow him around like a shadow.