“Mom! Please, open the door!”

No matter how desperately Ileana pleaded, Karen stood her ground. She neither stepped forward nor retreated, her daughter’s cries drifting past her as if carried away by the wind.

Ileana’s lips trembled, and tears slipped down her cheeks.

“Mom, I miss you so much…”

Her voice wavered, just like when she was a little girl, trying to win Karen over with childish sweetness.

“Mom, my birth parents didn’t want me–I get it, really. They never raised me, so of course they don’t care. But you… you’re the one who brought me up. Are you going to turn your back on me too?”

Karen pressed her lips together. “You’re the one who left us. Why come back now?”

Panic flickered across Ileana’s face, but she tried to hide it. “I didn’t leave! I didn’t!”

her nose, a

suddenly certain. “It was Scott and the others–they wouldn’t let me talk to you. They cut me off from everyone. I… I didn’t have a choice, Mom, you know I was just a kid back then. I

voice was flat, her disappointment long since worn into numbness. Still, she needed to ask, needed to

she break their hearts like this? And now, instead of facing

a daughter so utterly ungrateful–a daughter who would turn

much for that now. She

in the dark,

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Chapter 308

I came here to see you,”

clothes, my hair… Can we just

stripped of emotion. She shook her head

home. I don’t

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