In a hotel suite in Haicheng, Chloe Turner leaned against the bathroom sink, looking at herself in the mirror, shivering with fear.
She didn't want to see herself, so she turned around and faced away from the mirror, her hands shaking with emotion.
All of this was forced upon her by Cherish Turner. If it weren't for Cherish, she wouldn't have become so bad. Why did Cherish have to compete with her for William Griffith? Chloe knew him first, and she fell for him before Cherish was even born.
On the night when she and Grace Harper had planned everything together, Chloe had a dream in which her brother, Bob Turner, looked at her from the abyss without speaking, just staring and eventually fading away.
Chloe could feel it: Bob's gaze disapproved of her actions.
But she couldn't care about that now; she couldn't let William get any closer to Cherish.
She would lose him completely if she didn't act.