Chapter 4

My throat tightened.

I swallowed all my protests.

I didn't know how I got in the car.

When I came to, we had already arrived at the family's villa.

The family had prepared a lavish dinner to welcome us.

Natalie passed by me, whispering in my ear.

"I specially made cupcakes for you. You must eat them all."

My stomach convulsed.

After Sebastian went abroad, Natalie would prepare cupcakes for me every meal.

Under her intimidation, I had no choice but to eat them.

And every time I ate them, it made Natalie's mother break down.

Gradually, Natalie's mother looked at me with increasing hatred.

Eventually, even when she witnessed Natalie bullying me with her own eyes.

She would choose to turn a blind eye.

So when the family sent me to the sanatorium.

I even felt somewhat relieved.

Because I wouldn't have to eat cupcakes anymore.

But what I didn't expect was that when I got there, not only did I have to eat them.

They were also laced with things.

The attending physician put meat worms and cockroaches in the cakes.

He even used rat meat and snake meat to replace the fruit.

Forcing me to eat.

When I refused, he'd use a cattle prod.

Later, I'd be so scared I'd wet myself just hearing the word cupcake.

Only then was the attending physician satisfied.

I sat at the table, trembling all over.

Natalie's mother sighed.

"Dora, the way you're acting makes your brother think you've suffered so much in our home."

Sebastian looked at me coldly.

"Dora, what are you being fragile about now? You can't even eat a meal without wanting me to feel sorry for you?"

Before, whenever I sat at the table in a daze.

Sebastian would always thoughtfully ask if there were no dishes to my taste.

But now, my pain was treated as affectation.

I forced down my nausea and picked up that cupcake, eating it in large bites.

Sebastian froze for a few seconds.

Suddenly he snatched my bowl and slapped me twice.

"Dora! Melody died because of this thing, and you can still eat it!"