Mistaken Marriage, Unexpected Love

She paused briefly before continuing, “You know what? My father recently remarried and his new wife has a son. My mother passed away less than a year ago and my parents were deeply in love. I understand that my father can’t live alone forever but I can’t accept how he’s treating me. Since he remarried, he doesn’t even care about me, his own daughter…”

The thought of returning home to find her belongings thrown away and her room occupied by her stepmother’s son filled Laura with shock and anger.

Her father had told her, “You’re a girl and you’ll get married someday. Besides, you don’t come back home often, so I let your brother live in your room.”

Laura was angry. The boy was not her brother at all. How could her father take care of someone else’s child?

Camila tried to console Laura by holding her in her arms but she was lost for words.

She could empathize with Laura’s situation, having experienced similar struggles herself when her father was with Trudy

“Forrest…” Laura bitterly spoke about Forrest’s infidelity.

daughter-in-law. And to top it off,

possible that her mother had something to do

it important?”

him to have sex with that girl, it might

A ‘s L I B R

deep breath and said, “It doesn’t matter anymore. Even though

Camila became silent.

woman was now pregnant. Moreover, she was the woman Forrest’s mother preferred.

“But you…”

“We may not be destined for each other. Fate played with us. He and I

this, Camila couldn’t help but

show that I’m still the tough Laura. I am not going to cry for him and be miserable.” While speaking, she harshly wiped away her