“Eve, I know you’re angry that I didn’t look for you throughout the years. I just… I just didn’t know how to face you, so I-”

 

Isabelle’s remark was tantamount to pouring fuel on the fire. I jerked my head up and glowered at her resentfully even as I roared, “Just because you didn’t know how to face me, so you decided to avoid me? For that reason, you simply pretended that you have no daughter? If it weren’t for this party today that had us bumping into each other, were you planning to avoid me for the rest of your life?”

 

that’s not it. Let me explain,

sanity obliterated by rage. After so many years, the image of my mother has become increasingly faded. Sometimes, when I dreamed of her at night, I even doubted that I actually had no

Eve.” The look in Isabelle’s eyes as she gazed at me radiated an indecipherable sense of sorrow. She stared at me intently. “I’m really glad to see that you’ve grown up well and are even

paid any attention to me throughout the years. Otherwise, why would she say such a thing? Nathan is good to me and took good care of me? That’s the funniest joke I’ve ever heard! If it weren’t for my memories verifying the fact that I’m truly a Tanner, a daughter of the Tanner family, I’d suspect

the street that day?” I demanded through gritted

finally nodded before heaving a sigh and admitting, “Yes, it was

 

I inexorably burst into laughter, cackling so hard that I doubled over. “You shouldn’t have attended this party. And even if you did, you shouldn’t have asked for a meeting with me. Since you didn’t want to see me in the past, what’s

I just… just… missed you too much, so I came to see you. I’m sorry.” Isabelle sighed again. She seemed to be enveloped by great sorrow, making her

my tears that were on the verge of falling. I don’t want to cry, nor am I willing to do so! If I’m the only one who’d been anticipating this reunion that had been a long time coming, why should

 

I didn’t want to give you

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