Chapter 295

Angela reached out, her fingers brushing Selina’s palm with a warmth that was intended to be maternal. But Selina’s response was ice cold, and she shook off the touch without a second thought

Her disdain for Angela was as clear as crystal

“Family of three? You might’ve given birth to me, but the one who taised me, who’s been them through thick and thin, in Magnolia,” she said, her voice dripping with contempt..

“Selina Angela has been through hell for you,” Derrick chastised her.

With a mocking smile. Selina shot back, “Dad, would you ever divorce my mom to marry her?

Demck was silent now. And in his silence was the weight of truth that was hard to beat.

Angela’s heart ached, but she had long accepted the harsh reality.

The Lopez family were the aristocrats of Bayridge City, their roots too deep to be shaken. The Hamilton family had risen in their shadow, and Demick would never leave Magnolia

Unless death did them part

He could be a widower, but a divorce was out of the question. The Lopez family would destroy him,

Back in the day, trapped in a suffocating mamage, he’d sought solace in the arms of another, in a twisted act of rebellion, he even switched the babies, ensuring the Lopez family doted on the daughter of his mistress.

was firm, “Dad,

had envisioned a reunion full of tendemess, not this cold

tone” Derrick said, his

seemed encased in ice. “Dad, until you sort out Claude’s mess, I’d keep my distance if I were you. Do you think secret walls

you really are my biological mother and you care about me, you’d

mattered most to her was

both the Lopez family and the Hamilton family, the unparalleled

her way. Not even

Derrick’s anger flared.

problem at hand. Your visits are risky, and

at Angela’s hypocrisy.

laying a trap for some affection that

Selina announced, rising

tomorrow. Come work at the company. You’re my pride and joy, and the

was paving her way to

looked at him incredulously, “All of

I’ve always had

there

those words, she left

sobbing, “She won’t acknowledge me and

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