Chapter 1054


    "What''s the matter? Are you upset with me?” Heather asked.


    ‘Hasn''t she repented after I gave her an earful yesterday? I''m all she has in this world. She should


    count herself lucky to be able to live as my cover. She would have been dead long ago if it weren''t for


    me. Still, she has defied me for a lousy man. She must have lost her mind!"


    Hannah gave no answer or retort. As if she had not heard Heather, she remained quiet and still.


    The more she behaved like this, the angrier Heather became. ‘If she could pretend not to hear what I


    said, how can I use her as my substitute and trust her to do her job well in the future?’


    "Are you behaving like this to threaten me? You think I can''t live without you?" Heather approached


    Hannah and stood before her, casting an enveloping shadow over Hannah.


    Heather red at her sister ragefully and suddenly grabbed Hannah by her cor, dragging her out of


    the room.


    Hannah struggled half-heartedly for a short while and gave up, Knowing it was futile. She stayed quiet


    until she moaned when Heather threw her onto the shiny marble floor.


    Heather pulled over a floor mirror. "Look at yourself! How will you work for me if you don''t look like


    me?"


    "I''ve never looked like you, Heather.” Hannah moved her lips and finally spoke.


    She nced at her reflection in the mirror. Hannah’s face had paled like an apparition, and her eyes


    were soulless. She had even be thinner.


    Hannah looked over at her sister and noticed Heather, full of vigor and confidence, unlike herself, who


    dared not even look at herself in the mirror.


    ‘I''m not like Heather, not even one bit!’


    She had no idea why others could not tell them apart and wondered whether she had imitated Heather


    too well, or others were too stupid, or if they simply looked alike. ‘Are our looks so important? We''re


    fundamentally different!


    She concluded she was unlike Heather and did not want to be her. She simply wanted to be a


    carefree Hannah Riggs.


    ‘No, not necessarily Hannah Riggs. It’s exhausting to be a member of the Riggs family, not to mention


    that curse. I just want to be Annie, simple and happy.’


    As Hannah''s voice was husky and hardly audible, Heather did not catch it and asked with a frown,


    ‘What did you say?"


    Hannah lowered her gaze onto her reflection on the marble floor as she felt the pain from falling onto it.


    She mustered the courage that seemingly came out of nowhere, looked up at Heather, and moved her


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    dry lips to say,” I said I never looked like you! I''m not you or your shadow! I''m myself- Hannah Riggs!”


    Although her body was slightly trembling out of anxiety and fear, she felt good getting it off her chest.


    After all these years, what she buried deep down in her had finally exploded.


    She suddenly realized it felt great to be herself, even if she had to pay the price for it, even if she might


    never leave again or die.


    Hannah no longer cared. She did not want to be Heather''s shadow ever again. She wanted to be


    herself.