Chapter 173

"Meredith Leighton, what is this? Why are you avoiding me?" Josiah demanded with a gloomy look on his face.

Finally lifting up her head to look at him, Meredith stared right into his eyes. "Josiah Shelby, I am not running away from you. I'm just utterly disgusted by you, hate you, and I don't want to see you."

Pulling her wrist from his grasp, she added, "Oh, and let me tell you a piece of good news. My mom has finally died because of you. You must be exhilarated, huh.

"And one last thing. Now that you managed to force my mom to death, you can forget about using my mom as an excuse and threaten me to take care of that lover of yours, to be your maid, to be tortured by you, or to be forced to sleep with you."

For some reason, her words did not sit well with Josiah. He felt somewhat suffocated.

Josiah closed into her until her back was against the wall. Looking down at her, he corrected Meredith, "I'm not the one who's responsible for your mother's death. This is simply what you get