Housewife Gone Wild

Chapter 49.

Chapter 49

“Stop crying,” I said, my face cold. “If I didn’t love you, how would you have grown up at all?

“I just want you to understand that if you want real love, you have to give it back. It’s not that I’m treating you badly. It’s that you never appreciate anything.”

Yvonne froze for a second and then went right back to sulking. “Anyway, you just don’t love me anymore. Grandma said if you don’t love me, Daddy will just find a bunch of other women to love me. I don’t need you.”

I was stunned. That was exactly the kind of thing Sally would say. It looked like she had been filling Yvonne’s head with this behind my back.

This was why Yvonne didn’t take me seriously. In the Holcomb family, I had no standing or voice. I was invisible. No wonder Yvonne didn’t respect me as her mom.

I understood what I had failed to realize in my previous life, and the thought was bitter and sad.

no matter what. Otherwise, even my own family would look down on me and treat me like

legs and leaning back lazily in my

rolling her eyes. “You love Dad so much. If he dumped you, you’d cry your eyes out. Don’t think I don’t

That your mom has no backbone?”

time you said you were running away, you barely made it out the door before you remembered you had laundry drying upstairs and ran right back,” Yvonne mocked me,

past.

nothing to say because she was

I’m going to be strong. Yvonne, if you still think of me as your mom, you’d better start respecting me. If not,

I ordered her, “You have one minute to take your medicine.

as she picked up the cup and forced the pills

turned away and stood by the window,

Yvonne hugged her blanket,

on the small sofa, feeling heavy and bitter inside. It

now.