Chapter 282

"Mom! You know I still love her I can't live without="

Before Mitchell could finish, Adeline slapped him, hard. Her voice was icy as she snapped, "Mitchell, you're drunk!"

A metallic taste flooded Mitchell's mouth as blood trickled from his split lip.

Suzan, standing nearby, clenched her fists so tightly her nails dug into her palms.

Damn Mitchell! Even now, he still can't forget Effie-that wretched woman. Then what does that make me?

"Mom, please—I'm begging you, I really can't live without Effie. If she's gone, I'll die." Mitchell's last shred of pride crumbled as he broke down in tears, sobbing like a child.

Adeline froze. She had never seen her son like this before.

Could Effie really mean this much to him?

"Enough," she said sharply. "Are you a man or not? Crying like this over a woman? Pathetic. Fine, I'll do it."

Mitchell lifted his tear-streaked face toward Adeline.

him over-bloodshot eyes, snot and tears running down his face-

in that moment, an idea

call her," Mitchell

shot Suzan a

distracting Mitchell with

phone, muttered a few

up.

barely registered

go upstairs and sleep now,"

quietly, coaxing Mitchell toward the

Mitchell ignored them both and

but Adeline stopped her. "Don't. You're pregnant, remember?”

minded. She found

never actually made that call, what

Mitchell's just drunk-he'll

it," she added, trying to

though

drunken words are the truest-and Mitchell's drunken

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