CHAPTER 73

“Jera Young is your father’s mistress that’s why our family ended up like that.”

The moment I heard those words, my fingers quickly press the end button. I couldn’t hear anything more. All this time it was my mother’s fault that Achilles had to go through those struggles? Why his parents divorced, and the reason why his father ended his life that he witnessed. It was my mother who ruined their family, and he was deprived to have a complete one as he grew up.

My hands trembled, in shock, guilt, and anger towards my mother. Why things are getting harder for the both of us?

I know Achilles won’t obey his mom despite what she confessed, he won’t just give up the two of us because of it, I know him.

But my conscience won’t let me pass this and forget everything that happened in the past, knowing that the life of the man I love became miserable, a trauma of his childhood, making him hate women, all because of one person, my mom.

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The night passes by without me sleeping. Where would I ge