Chapter 61

She stared at Isabella with a probing look. “I heard from your Sis that you’ve made it big now, become the wife of a rich man?”

Isabella’s heart reflexively tightened in her chest. Every nerve in her body seemed to throb in pain, and for a moment, it felt as though her blood had frozen, her vitality evaporating.

“How did you get here?” she asked, her voice barely audible, trembling.

“You haven’t come to see me in so long,” her mother continued, her voice a mixture of complaint and sorrow. “Bella, I’ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I don’t have long to live. Before I die, I just wanted to see you. I’ve called you so many times, but you never answered. I sent you messages, but you didn’t reply. Have you forgotten me, now that you’ve become successful and don’t want to acknowledge your good–for- nothing mother?”

As she spoke, her mother began to sob uncontrollably.

Isabella stared coldly at the woman who had brought her nothing but misfortune. How dare she come here? When Isabella was so small, her mother had transferred all of her frustrations with Moore’s Father onto her.

She had been abusive–physically and emotionally. She had treated her as nothing more than an outlet for her anger, beating her and kicking her. She had forbidden her from going to school, forcing her to beg on the streets, and then taking

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money

nightmares. It wasn’t that she didn’t

was no better than a “human trafficker.

you came to me, I

a desperate look. “There

they were blood relatives. When someone is about to die, they speak

Isabella said, her

her mother to a nearby bar, just outside her

talk here,” Isabella said as she took

then. You didn’t understand much. Your father cheated on me and forced me to divorce him. I was just a housewife with no means of fighting back. I had to leave with you and start

through her hair, and when her fingers

scar on her forehead, her warmth vanished, replaced

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by coldness.

“You beat me until

didn’t just make my life miserable, you almost

doing well in life, and that’s all I care about. I’m at peace

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