Chapter 94 Love-struck Fool

Liam frowned.

After living with her for so many years, how could he not know her?

No matter how sweetly she talked in public, the fact remained that she couldn't stand Alistair.

She'd secretly pitted her own son, Caleb, against Alistair. Once, when she noticed that Alistair was a few inches taller, she went on a shopping spree, buying all sorts of so-called height-boosting supplements. "Caleb, you gotta take these every day. They'll make you as tall as a basketball player!" she'd insisted, shoving the pills at him.

Another time, seeing Alistair's clear, smooth skin, she ordered Caleb, "You should wear a mask whenever you go out. It'll protect your skin." Caleb rolled his eyes, muttering, “Mom, that's so girly. I'm not doing it." If he hadn't put his foot down, she probably would've gone as far as getting him an umbrella to shield him from

the sun.

Suddenly, Liam's mind flashed back to Caleb's senior year in high school. Celeste had turned into an absolute maniac. "Caleb, you're not going to bed until you finish these practice tests. I want you to ace the SATS!" she'd scream. Night after night, she forced

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Caleb to study until one or two in the morning. Poor Caleb couldn't take it

anymore. He ran away from home several times.

Liam came to an abrupt halt, his face frozen in a mask of shock

and disbelief.

He was dead certain of what he'd just realized.

Celeste found out Alistair was outshining Caleb at school. She was terrified Alistair would blow Caleb out of the water on the SAT.

So, so...

Liam's expression kept shifting, a whirlwind of shock, remorse, and anger swirling across his face like a wild carousel.

because he'd discovered he'd been duped by

college.

he'd known Alistair was a top-notch student back then, he might've just hemmed and hawed a bit longer and made Rebecca's job a

Celeste had put it, what good would it do him if Alistair went to college? Could

of Celeste's sweet-talking in his ear, he'd still

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own

well, Liam

himself, convinced he was a stand-up

watched my own son drop out of school. That conniving bitch Celeste is the one who drove a wedge between me and my

Celeste's

what? If you don't haul your ass back here pronto, we're getting divorced. I'll live with Caleb, and you can go live with that

got Liam's

rushed out of the house, he'd done his damnedest to persuade

stubborn as a mule and refused to hige an inch. Left with no other

at him

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he'd pulled some shady stunt on a colleague. He never in a million years thought that the seemingly timid colleague

underworld connections.

that guy ever found out what

over.

Alistair for being so heartless, Liam held the deepest grudge

****

increasingly outgoing, bid a sweet farewell to Alistair and Caroline without a single

Caroline headed to the company while

home.

which would take quite some time. She had made the decision to transfer Eloise to a new kindergarten rather abruptly. The kindergarten nad

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in their current place and move to the new house once it was all

residence wasn't too far from the new kindergarten. It was also located in the

Caroline drove

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