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Last Resort

Penulis: Inyekwe Richard
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2024-10-24 05:53:18
CHAPTER 38

ROBERT’S POV

“Mum calm down okay? She was just leaving,” I said as I tried to calm my mum.

I came in between, stopping her from getting past me to Scarlett. She was so angry I could tell she wanted to strike Scarlett if I wasn’t preventing her.

“You’re so shameless,” my mum threw her words like stones at Scarlett. “After everything this family has done for you, this is how you chose to repay us. You should have never come back from wherever it was you went yesterday or better died in an accident so I don’t get to see your disgusting face again. You are such a disgrace I feel like spitting right in your face. I can’t believe I thought of you as the perfect daughter-in-law and wife for my son…”

“Mum please stop…” I kept urging her to stop but she kept rambling away, the heat that came with her rage palpable and unquenchable. For a long time, I haven’t seen her this angry. What Scarlett did really did pull a tight string in her. Yesterday, she was hell-bent on ca
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