Let Love Takes Away All This Pain

Chapter 3: The Mother-In-Law Has Arrived

The interview went well. Alva had a nice appearance, good skin, and a gentle aura that was well-suited to cosmetics sales. She started working the very same day.

Alva worked in the Itokin Building. It was the largest shopping mall in Virginia and catered to mid-to-high-class consumers. It saw high volumes of traffic every day.

Alva worked hard. She was the first one to come in and the last one to leave every day. She learned about cosmetics, took notes, shadowed other clerks as they sold products, and put what she learned into practice immediately. In just a few days, she was already familiar with the process.

The store manager noticed her effort and was very satisfied with her work ethic.

One day, Alva successfully sold one of their products and was seeing the customer off when her phone rang.

Alva said to the store manager, “Manager, I have to take this call.”

Bosses tend to like hardworking and motivated employees. Naturally, they can be very accommodating to said employees.

“Go ahead.”

Alva walked inside the storage room with her phone. When

she saw the word mother-in-law displayed on the screen, the smile on her face froze and was soon replaced by

nervousness.

A year ago, when Uriah wanted to marry her, the Irwin Family strongly disagreed. But no matter how much they insisted otherwise, they could not deter Uriah.

the two elders had never recognized her as their daughter-in-law. Uriah fiercely defended her and

demands. Aside from the first time Uriah brought her home to meet his parents, she had never laid eyes upon

a year.

Candice Florice was calling, it was impossible for Alva not to

voice was so soft and gentle that there was no

the Thia Restaurant

was awful, but she seemed levelheaded. She didn’t lose her temper with Alva over the phone.

hung up after

at her phone and thought about calling Uriah to

considering their current

the store manager if she could get off work early.

door and the

was no one else in the room.

walked over and muttered

Alva, her eyes sweeping from the top of her head to her feet and back again, her brow knitting tighter and tighter, “Have you forgotten who you are?”

her son as

Irwin Family run out of money for their daughter-in-law to

thought made Candice twist her features into an ugly scowl.

instead of answering her, Alva looked at her in surprise.

seem to know that Uriah

when Alva didn’t say anything. “Are you listening to me or not?”

were they? No wonder her son had also thrown etiquette out the window once he left the house!

and hurriedly waved her

Mom. I…”