Chapter 136 Forced To Accept

• Lyla’s pov
• I paused in my tracks, my heart pounding in my ears as I took in the scene before me. I couldn't believe my eyes, Lucia. The same Lucia who had deceived me, who had inserted the knife of betrayal so deeply into my spine that I could still feel its phantom even after all these while.
• But this was not the Lucia I recalled. My best friend, the sharp-eyed woman, was no longer with me. In her place was an unrecognisable figure—a shadow of her former self.