She Was the Treasure All Along novel Chapter 265

Quiana spent days being interrogated in a military detention facility before she was finally brought before a military court. No one from the Sampson family showed up. No one hired her a lawyer.

Faced with the evidence, she could only plead guilty, and when she learned the combined charges carried fifteen years, she snapped.

“No—no, I can’t go to prison! I’m young. I can’t! I’ll do anything! I’ll apologize! I’ll apologize to everyone I hurt! Please, don’t send me to jail!”

Following Lucian’s instructions, Robert set up a camera in front of her. “You can apologize. If the victims accept it, your sentence may be reduced. Do you know who you should be apologizing to?”

Quiana nodded frantically. “Yes. The veterans. Blossom Hospital.”

She dropped to her knees and bowed toward the lens, humiliating herself without restraint, knocking her forehead down again and again.

After several bows, a pair of polished combat boots came into view. Robert stepped aside immediately and snapped a salute.

Quiana lifted her head, trembling. When she saw the man standing there, her pupils shrank.

Lucian looked down at her, immaculate in uniform, his expression ice-cold. He crouched slowly until they were eye level, his voice low and dangerous. “You missed someone.”

Quiana’s lips shook. “I… I don’t know who else.”

“Loyce,” Lucian said, enunciating every letter. “The person you truly owe an apology to, the one you stole a family from, framed, and crushed every chance you got.”

Quiana’s face turned paper-white. She shook her head violently. “No… that’s not true! She stole everything from me! She—”

“Enough.” Lucian didn’t raise his voice, but Quiana flinched as if struck. “She held the Sampson family together. You just clung to her like a parasite. And you still want to dodge responsibility? Didn’t you ruin everything with your own hands? If you’d ever truly treated her like a sister, would you be here now?”

Quiana lunged forward and grabbed his pant leg, a twisted spark of hope in her eyes. “Lucian—please. If you help me… I’ll do anything…”

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