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.

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

legs and leaning back lazily in my chair. “If someone really can take my place as your mom,

“You love Dad so much. If he dumped

that’s what you think of me, Yvonne? That

tough woman? Last 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, bringing

past.

to say because

used to be weak, but from now on, I’m going to be strong. Yvonne, if you still think of me

to take your medicine. If

tears welled up as she picked up the cup and forced the pills into her mouth

want to see her all pitiful and upset, so I turned away and stood by the window, watching

a long time. Yvonne hugged her blanket, cried for a

sofa, feeling heavy and bitter inside. It looked

now.