Rising from the Ashes (Andrew) novel Chapter 2343

Andrew's lips curled into a cold, dismissive smile. "Submit? Ha, do you really think you're worthy? Do you think I care about your submission? Mikayla, what I despise most about you is your crooked heart.

"You honestly believe that all your little schemes and manipulations are hidden from me? In these ten years in Chetvine, you're adored and showered with vanity. So now you think my return has ruined that, that I remind you of the past and make you feel ashamed, right?"

He added, "But the truth is, my return has nothing to do with you. You and your family, in my eyes, are nothing at all. Let me be blunt… You and the Owens family are nothing more than weeds by the roadside to me. If I ever want to crush you, all it takes is lifting my foot."

Mikayla's heart trembled for no reason. The look in Andrew's eyes made her feel a kind of fear she had never known, one that felt utterly foreign.

Yet the very next second, she burst out laughing in anger. "Andrew, since you've said it like this, then let's draw the line right here. You walk your road, and I'll walk mine. We'll see in the end who climbs higher and farther!"

Andrew shook his head. "No need, because honestly, you're not even qualified to compete on the same stage as me. Originally, if you hadn't come to cause trouble, I would've just treated you like you were invisible.

"But you just had to come in front of me and play your games. Mainly, you remind me of a woman named Christina Stevens from my past. She was just like you, equally ungrateful. And in the end, her fate was miserable beyond words."

"There is only one difference between you and her. Christina had already tasted the bitterness of life, the cruelty of reality, and the pain of being used and betrayed. But you are still living in a greenhouse, with no idea what disaster and suffering truly mean."

If he refused to appreciate her sincerity, then he would have no one but himself to blame for the cruelty she would unleash.

Did he really think she was still that little girl who once looked up to him with worship in her eyes?

She was the chosen one. She would control her own destiny, and she would also control the fate of others.

Andrew left the Sovereign's Apothecary without a second thought, and his impression of Mikayla could be summed up in just two words: dumb bitch!