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.

what. Otherwise, even my own family

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

Dad so much. If he dumped you, you’d cry your eyes out. Don’t think

of me, Yvonne? That your mom has no backbone?” I raised an

you said you were running away, you barely made it out the door before you remembered you had laundry

past.

had nothing to say because

of me as your mom, you’d better start

I ordered her, “You have one minute to take your medicine. If you don’t, I won’t go easy on

she picked up the cup

I turned away and stood

long time. Yvonne hugged her blanket, cried for

eyes and sat down on the small sofa, feeling heavy

now.