Chapter 236: "What are you here for, Mrs. Tyson?"

“Well are you just going to stand there or are you going to walk over and give your mother-in-law a hug?”

The mere idea of it makes me feel like I'd barf.

She sits pretty on one of the couches. One of my couches.

I feel multiple emotions flow through me at the sight of her, but I'd always known a confrontation would happen one day.

I expected her to come one day or the next, but right now, the sight of her makes me feel like she’s a bit too much to handle.

Hunter’s mother stares at me with calm purple eyes and her hair packed up in a bob. There’s an ornate pin going through it that gleams as the ray of the sun touches it. Dressed in a simple yet fashionable dress, she looks like she’s just about ready for work.

But she’s the Nightshade Matriarch.

The former Luna, a woman I once thought… would be like a second mother to me.

Every day is a working day for her, and those she works on always feel the sting of it.

I take a shallow breath and push away the pain that seems to cloud my heart,