Forced Marriage: My Wife, My Redemption by Lilyheart

Chapter 351: Grandma, it can’t be true...

Matilda did not have much of an expectation for anyone other than taking care of her daughter and treating her well.

And just a few days after his visit, a delegate was sent to the Santiagos’ family to sound a warning.

The message had been clear, direct and unyielding, it was neither veiled nor diplomatic. "Your daughter must stay away from our son, or be ready to dance to the tune of our music."

Though the Santiagos were baffled by the hostility, it didn’t take long before the Anderson family began to exert pressure.

A quiet suppression followed in their economic, political, and social relationships. The Santiagos fought back with resilience, but it quickly escalated into a lopsided battle for survival.

To reduce the damage and preserve what little dignity the family had left, Matilda responded with a decisive message: her daughter had no relationship with the Anderson heir, and in fact, a marriage had already been arranged for her.

It was a painful decision, but Matilda made it out of love and a desperate hope that her daughter could find shelter in a family that would embrace her, if not for who she was, then for what she could become.

Jessica’s gaze never left Grandma Nelly’s face as she narrated her mother’s journey, yet a question tugged at her heartstrings she couldn’t ask.

"Why would her mother be found unworthy by the Anderson family when the Anderson son found her worthy?"

Grandma took a deep breath. After one year, your mother left school and matters concerning the Anderson family were also trashed.

On one fateful day when the Santiagos’ residence lay in silence and her parents all left the house, Nora packed her suitcase to leave.

Nelly tried as much to stop her, but then she insisted. In her words, "I don’t want to drag down the Santiagos’ family."

At the time, Nora made a decision, she would leave the Santiagos’ family, she would better herself, and she would elevate her family to be worthy of the Anderson family.

When Nelly noted her insistence, stubbornness, and the decision she made, she became afraid she would go alone and suffer without anyone.

During the time she nursed and cared for Nora as a child, she came to love and treat her like hers, and for Nora, she was close to Nelly, treating her just like a daughter.

pleading with her to

could afford at that moment and that was to go with

scene when she told her the decision to go with her, Nora had refused she didn’t want to drag anyone

matter how she tried to convince Nelly, she maintained her decision of going

together, they left the Santiagos’ estate. Nora took with her the only exclusive item that proves her identity as a Santiagos’, a proof she hasn’t abandoned her roots. Whatever happened, she remains

jobs, while Nelly took on the role of her mother in full, cleaning houses, sewing, doing anything to support them both. Together they rode

if Lady Matilda had already handled

came like a hammer

her gaze.

breath coming in shorts, sweat forming on

had anticipated. She

all the things she imagined,

one of

dreaded the direction this

was afraid of this result playing out before her. She didn’t want to

more severe reaction, so seeing Jessica instinctively shrink, she wasn’t

trembling, her heart

only hoped Grandma Nelly would give her a "no" as an

would

bother

her hands and feet go cold even as her heart thumped wildly. Yet, she still held

you are an Anderson," Nelly

sentence echoed multiple times in

bubble, her hope was dashed, her fantasy shattered.

can’t be true,"

her hand and patted her back gently. "My dear, you just have to accept