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Chapter 139 - bitter reality
Stella
Smack!
"How dare you!?" She shouted. The stinging slap seemed to echo in the sudden shocked silence.
I pressed one hand to my flaming cheek, staring at the mother who birthed and betrayed me in one awful moment.
"You ungrateful wretch!" she shrieked, face mottled nearly purple with rage. "Your depraved thugs ambush my husband and drag him off to God knows where, and you stand there so smug! Was our providing you food and shelter all those years not enough?"
The room tilted crazily. Lawrence quickly moved to restrain her, but I halted him with one raised hand.
Trembling, I turned back to the woman I had once desperately craved love from.
"So that's why you came? Checking on your meal ticket, not your daughter?" Bitterness roughened my voice. Blinders torn violently away, I sudden
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