Chapter 118

“What did you call me?” Chloe looked at Olivia in disbelief.

“Mrs. Carlton, did you forget that you divorced my father years ago?

“Your husband is now Mr. Carlton. Am I mistaken to call you Mrs. Carlton?”

This was the first time Olivia had been so cold to Chloe.

Even during the time Chloe met her after she came back from overseas, Olivia had been gentle.

Now, it was as if she was a cold and sharpened blade.

“Liv, you’ve changed. How can you say that? I am still your mother, after all.”

“Yes, I’ve changed. I’ve only come to realize that humans are despicable and that human nature is ugly and selfish.

“If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have been missing my mother all those years. I wouldn’t have spent years waiting for someone who would never return.”

“Liv, I know I’ve let you down. But now that I’m back, I’ll do everything in my power to make it up to you.”

Olivia gazed at Chloe’s face. She didn’t remember how Chloe looked when she was still a child.

She looked largely the same as she was in the pictures. There were only some traces of aging.

from the mother in her

you forgot that I existed.

thought that perhaps I don’t want your compensation? You weren’t there

most

I’ve survived that, nothing you give me would

“Liv…”

over there. I am

in the world who would give anything up for

person. She didn’t love

when Chris came to her, she threw everything away and left

radio silent. She didn’t even call once,

that the years have passed, she seemed to have remembered that

She

within the walls. It was loud and

these people with dignified appearances

she no longer needed a family. Nor did she need

only wanted to

to cause the kind of pain he would never forget, a pain that

rest of his life.

face when she thought about

Olivia as soon as

evening gowns for her since she said she wanted

came in many colors. But none of them were

wearing a black fitted floor–length gown. Her hair was held

black veil on her head. It was made with translucent material and decorated with tiny

glitter whenever light shone

pair of diamond earrings. They

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