Revenge Wears My Ring novel Chapter 311

“Apple Pay! I’ll pay with Apple Pay!”

She hurriedly opened her payment app, the amount just barely enough to cover the minimum overdue bill.

The nurse scanned her phone, processed the payment, and didn’t spare her another glance.

Queenie stared at her phone, watching her balance drop to a little over two hundred dollars. Her heart plummeted.

She clenched her jaw, then raised a hand to flag down a cab, giving the driver the address she still, foolishly, thought of as “home.”

Right now, all she wanted was to escape this suffocating reality, even if it was only for a little while, and hide in the one place she knew.

By the time the taxi pulled up outside the apartment building, night had already fallen.

Dragging her exhausted, aching body, Queenie stumbled toward the ornate front door she’d opened countless times before.

Automatically, her fingers flew to the keypad. She typed in the code—the one she’d thought would never change.

Beeep—Incorrect code.

The cold, electronic voice sent a jolt of panic through her.

She took a shaky breath, convinced she’d made a mistake, and carefully punched in the numbers again.

Beeep—Incorrect code.

No. That couldn’t be.

Desperate, her hands trembling, she tried a third time.

Beeep—Incorrect code. Too many failed attempts. This lock is temporarily disabled.

It was as if something had sucked every ounce of strength from her body. Queenie slid down against the cold door, collapsing in a heap of despair.

The code had been changed.

Julian—he really meant to shut her out for good.

Penniless. Homeless. Still not fully recovered…

The night deepened, autumn’s chill settling in with the wind.

Queenie shivered, both from cold and hunger. Pain throbbed through her lower abdomen. She curled up by the door, consciousness slipping away, until finally, she blacked out.

Dawn came, and she awoke to the sensation of someone rudely kicking her.

“Hey! Who are you? Why are you sleeping at someone else’s door? Get up!”

A man in janitor’s coveralls frowned down at her, nudging her with his foot.

Queenie jolted awake, her eyes burning as she saw the stranger. She snapped back at him, her voice hoarse and sharp, “Who the hell are you? Get lost! This is my house!”

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