A False Heiress's Guide to Love and Power

Chapter 307

“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 nervous

she blurted, her tone suddenly certain. “It was Scott and the others–they wouldn’t let me talk to you. They cut me off from

long since worn into numbness. Still, she

this? And now, instead of facing her own mistakes, she was trying to drag Alessia down with her, sending strangers

wrong to raise a daughter so utterly ungrateful–a daughter who would turn on

anger. She’d been through too much for that now.

in the dark, still

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away, overseas, and the moment I got back, I came here to see you,” she said, forcing a smile as she gripped the iron railing, as if letting go meant

tired from standing out here. Look at me–my clothes, my hair… Can we just go inside and talk? I don’t want the neighbors

her eyes stripped of emotion. She shook her head

my home. I don’t

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