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!”

rubbed her nose, a nervous

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

disappointment long since worn into numbness. Still, she needed to ask, needed to hear it from

deserve this? After everything they’d given her, why would she break their hearts like this? And

so wrong to raise a daughter so utterly

too much for that

in the dark, still

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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

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

She shook her head slowly, but there was an unmistakable firmness

my home. I don’t

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