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18: The Start of the End
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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Stop making a fuzz, honey. It's getting a bit annoying and my ears are starting to hurt." She said to me while massaging her ears. Her bodyguards also got inside the car and before I could protest, we were already speeding out of the parking lot.
"Stop the car!" I demanded but they just continued driving off.
"They only follow orders from me, remember honey?" My mom, Zenaida Aragon, said with amusement in her voice.
"What are you even doing here, mom? What do you want?" I just asked her to get this unwanted reunion over with.
"Can't I talk to my own daughter? Does a mother need to have a reason to see her child? I've been waiting for hours here in the parking lot. You know I don't really get why you're stressing and troubling yourself with working for another company that makes you work for long hours when you can be the boss in any of our businesses." She said cracking her neck.
"I don't need you to judge my decisions, mom. Just tell me what
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