Chapter 21

I stood in the doorway, my eyes fixed on my mother-in-law's guilty face. The revelation hit me like a ton of bricks, and I felt my world crashing down around me.

"You knew," I whispered, my voice trembling with anger and hurt. "You knew about Mira's pregnancy, didn't you?"

Martha’s eyes darted away, her gaze avoiding mine. But I saw the truth there, the knowledge that she had been hiding from me all along.

"You knew, and you still treated me like dirt," I spat, my words laced with venom. "You hated me for no reason, other than the fact that I was the one who didn't know the truth, so this is how you raised your son? This is how you raised Kian?." I shouted

I took a step closer, my heart racing with rage. "You knew that your precious son had gotten another woman pregnant, and you still had the nerve to judge me, to make me feel like I was the one who was wrong, you are no different from Mira, you are just as cunning as she is."

My words were met with a stinging slap across my face, the