Snapping out of her shock, Sasha folded her arms over her chest and calmly watched the two girls argue.

It looks like I was wrong earlier. It wasn’t that Susan didn't care about my son, but she buried her feelings for him deep inside her. However, she'll turn into a lioness on any issues related to Ian.

Memories of Devin's incident rose to her forefront. I remembered the scene when Sabrina went to Yaleview alone. Why are all these women so tough?

"Say something!"

Crack!

The already furious Susan had rage pouring through her when Sigrun didn't respond. In her blind haze of rage, she unconsciously tightened her grip on Sigrun's finger, eliciting the sound of something breaking.

The sound triggered Sasha's temper.

"All right. Susan, calm down. Let me handle this."

Sasha hurriedly came up to the two girls and extracted Sigrun's fingers from Susan's grip when Susan was about to choke Sigrun.

She wouldn't have gotten this mad if she didn't care about my son's well-being, so she must've valued Ian's life more than hers.

Sasha gently patted Susan's back in an effort to calm her down.

in her gaze turned sharp as she directed it toward Sigrun. The soft expression on her face

I return. I also want to talk to you about something else. Even though Old Mr. Jadeson and your grandfather were the ones who decided on your engagement with Ian, I've already told Ian's father prior that we would respect Ian's wishes. So I asked Ian about the engagement last night, and he disapproved of it because he doesn't have feelings for you. With that, I'll have Old Mr.

she figured she might as well be frank about her decision to call off

had finally calmed down, felt the world was crashing down on her. On the other

what they were talking about last night. The gloominess in her chest finally dispersed. She quickly ducked her head

tears and had Susan get in her car, leaving Sigrun

weren't heading downtown. Instead, they were on the road back to

"Mrs. Hayes, this is...?"

think we should return to the apartment. Are you

rearview mirror. "He hasn't had lunch? Why didn't you say so earlier, Mrs. Hayes? We should

"Okay."

lips lifted into

live a happy and

to the corner store to get

and came out of

he saw Sasha, who just left not long ago,

"Mommy, you-"

dish that Ian likes. I also bought the tofu he likes.

with a bag of groceries and started listing out what

there

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