Nine months too late: After divorce by Baby Charlene

Chapter 104

"Although, we don't know what really happened, but for Kage to have kicked the pregnant you out of his house, it could only mean you've done a terrible thing-a very terrible thing." "And we heard his family is doing this to us because they're tryna get back at you. It never stops, does it, Sylvie? We always have to pay for your foolishness." Sylvie's face crumpled in surprised as she looked at Beatrice who and spoken last. "My foolishness?" I didn't mess with them. You need to find a way to fix this."

"Yes! Dad wouldn't be in this conected some sort of defense from him, but he seemed as angry as her siste the Looking at her father, Sylvie

"Are you being serious!" She scoffed bitterly, pulling away from the bed. "Why am I even in this condition in the first place? Isn't it because I've been making decisions for this family?" Beatrice and Iris rolled their eyes. "If I hadn't agreed to marry Kage two years ago, the company would've folded up long before now. But if I really hadn't married him," she pointed at her bump. "I wouldn't be in this situation with the Hawkins." She turned to her father. "Every difficult decision I've made was in the interest of this family. Do you even know what I had to do to let Kage take you into the One Trillion Group when you weren't qualified?" She turned to her sisters. "Do I need to remind you of the number of times you needed my help with Kage? How you needed his connection with the embassy and so many others that involved money? Do you have any idea how humiliating it was to ask for assistance from a husband who, back then, didn't care about me? I've made sacrifices that even Beatrice and Iris are yet to make for the family." "Have you lost t your r mind?" Beatrice snapped. Look,"

Eldon called her attention. "I need you to fix whatever is going on, Sylvie. Your sisters and I don't know, but you know best. And it has to be fixed." Hurt filled Sylvie's chest. Despite all she's said, they still saw her as the one who fixed the mess. Since her mother's death, she's grown up to be the tool of the family.

"When can you do it?" Eldon's voice reached her ears.

She balled her hand into fists as she looked away. "I don't know if I can fix this. I'm helpless at the moment."

"What do you mean you're helpless? This is your mess!" Iris snapped.

Before Sylvie could respond to her, her father cut in. "Look, you need to do something about this. The company's tight form every corner, it's obvious they're stronger forces behind this. Whatever is going on with the Hawkins, you need to gulp down your pride and fix it, Sylvie!"

"I am not a tool!" Sylvie shouted. She didn't even know what was more frustrating - her father's words or how he sounded mad at her.

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Tears glistened in her eyes as she looked at him. "Have you even considered how difficult life has been for me? Do you even care about me at all? Sometimes 1, I feel like I was employed into this family, rather than belong to it." Grabbing her bag, she started for the door.

If you're unable to do this, you're as good as useless to us, Sylvie Eldon's words halted her at the door. Her brows furrowed as she turned back to him, surprise flashing in her eyes. But the man didn't look a bit remorseful. 12:06 Fri, Oct 25 Chapter 104

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"You

Well, I'd say I deserve it, considering the fact that I took you in despite what your whore of a mother did." His jaw seemed to clench as he added the last part. "Despite the fact that you were bastard." That was it. That was all it took for Sylvie's heart to come crumbling. It came as though, a glass had

a faltering step forward. "What did

right." Iris snapped. "I loved mum, but the one thing she did wrong was bring

real. Sylvie shut her eyes, thinking the dream would vanish if she opened them again. But it

truth. They were only saying this to hurt

chuckled, shaking her head. "You're lying to

being honest with you," Beatrice folded her arms. "I wasn't exactly surprised when I learned the truth. In some way, you were different from us. Whoever your father must have been, you must've taken after him." Sylvie shook her head, words

I don't exactly regret it because it gave me my two daughters." He glanced at Beatrice and Iris. "Why do you think we divorced, Sylvie? I leaned the truth, yet I kept you even after she died." His voice shifted to a chilling intonation. "All these years, watching you grow as my child was one of the most difficult things I've had to do. You really thought you had the blood of the Price in your veins?" He snorted.

cheeks, her heart hammering violently in her chest. Oh,

still in

really think I'd deny my own child?" Eldon frowned. "Recently, I've tolerated you because you were proving useful, but if you can't fix the problem with the Hawkins, then you might as

to give out

a hand over

and how much she wished none of it was true, it made sense. This would explain why she's

he needed her to 'fix' something. Even when she'd helped him get into the One Trillion Group, he never thanked her for it, always

she had been their mother's favorite. And after she died, their

it on their nonchalance, but now it was starting to make sense. They never really saw her as a part of them but a 'tool' instead. That was all she ever

be grateful to us, you know?" Iris's eyes didn't hold the tiniest bit of remorse. "If

hee tongue. "You probably wouldn't have survived on the streets, Sylvie. We made you who you are today. Without the Price name,

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I met you.' Kage's words. 'I wish you never came to Easton High, because then, we'd

Without the Price name, you're as good as nothing. From the people she considered

she sat in the bar, staring at the untouched bottle of alcohol in front of her. There were a lot of people in the bar, but their voices sounded distant in her head. She'd successfully shut them out in a way

she did their bidding. Beatrice and

father-or the man she used to think was her father —but she let him raise