[Flashback]
Jasmine listened to the steady beeping of the heart monitor, her eyes fixed on the woman lying in the bed. Loren looked frail, her body wasted away from the long battle with her illness. Although the beauty was still intact, her current state told a different story than that of the tale of the once fierce and rising CEO of LL Construction.
"It's a shame, Loren," she whispered, watching as Loren weakly opened her eyes. "You used to be so pretty, so full of life, and so… successful."
Perhaps this was the first time Jasmine had ever been brutally honest with herself. Loren had everything Jasmine didn't. Although Loren had lost her mother early, she'd had a loving father who cared for her. A father who had assumed both roles of a parent and had secured his daughter a wonderful future.
Jasmine, on the other hand, had wished her parents were dead. They were that useless. And it often made her wonder why she was even born into such a pathetic family.
