Chapter 51

AVA

The only sound I could focus on was the loud stomping of my feet and my erratic heartbeat that filled my ears accompanied by my heaving breathing.

Anger would be a terrible understatement of what I was going through.

I was exasperated, filled with fury, disgusted and frustrated at how low my own father would go to just to extort money and sympathy from me.

How could he lie so confidently to my face, playing a facade card of regret so as to elicit money from me? What sort of father is that?

Now, for the first time, I had actually appeared to be deceitful and cunning with funds left in my care. The satisfied look on Clara's face the moment I got trapped in my father's web of lies and tricks made my stomach churn.

Tears glistened in my ears as I approached the front door of my parent's home but I blinked them back, a stern resolve washing across my face.

I was going through so much already, I didn't want to add or to complicate things further for me.

Without knocking on the door, I