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!”

nose, a nervous

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 wasn’t even eighteen. What could

since worn into numbness. Still,

And

had they done so wrong to raise a daughter so utterly ungrateful–a daughter

too much for that now. She only spoke because she wanted

was in the dark, still clinging to her own pitiful

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came here to see you,” she said, forcing a smile as

me–my clothes, my hair… Can we just go inside and talk? I don’t want the

of emotion. She shook her head slowly, but there was an unmistakable

my home. I don’t want strangers coming

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