Second Chance At Love by Iris Mignon

Chapter 6

Sophia forced a bitter smile as she glanced through the car window, only to find the brightly lit house. All she could think about was how pitiful her daughter was, lying alone in the cold, eerie cemetery, waiting for her father’s visit, which never came.

“Alright, thank you. It’s a private residential area, so getting a taxi here won’t be easy. You can take my car and leave, and Il arrange for someone to pick it up from the cemetery tomorrow,” Sophia said to the man. Alter giving him instructions, she pushed open the car door and stepped out.

‘Since Ada dared to confront me head–on, I shouldn’t continue hiding like a turtle, Sophia thought, determined. “I’m already on my deathbed, so why should I be afraid to face their profound affection?‘

“Isn’t there a saying that women may be weak, but mothers are strong?” Sophia muttered to herself. Having endured the heartache of her daughter lying alone in the cemetery, longing for her father, Sophia felt there was nothing left in this world that could break her.

As she stepped into the courtyard, a young maid approached her with a warm smile. The maid introduced herself and informed her that the house’s mistress had sent her to welcome her.

Sophia chuckled at the thought, ‘A shameless, dirty homewrecker dares to act like the mistress in me and my husband’s shared property?‘

After a momentary pause, Sophia strode past the maid and entered the living room. “Oh, Sophia,” Ada’s voice rang out, dripping with sarcasm. “Have you mastered the art of confronting the woman who intruded upon your marriage? Are you here to tear me apart?”

and haughty posture, all devoid of the slightest trace of shame

herself, ‘Well, refinement was

family? You’ve besmirched the Taylor family’s name. Along with the illegitimate child you carry, you will be like a rat scurrying in the streets, pursued by all,” Sophia

do you think you are to

enunciating each word as she spoke, “I interfered? Five years ago, I was stabbed and gravely wounded while trying

want to relive that painful

all began with a twist of fate. Jason should have loved Sophia,

and leaned in close to whisper in her ear, “So what? Who told you to erase the scar on your chest for aesthetics?”

clever I am. I stabbed myself with a knife to create this gruesome scar, making Jason believe without a doubt that I was the one who saved him.” With that, Ada suddenly opened her shirt, revealing, the winding scar on her chest that she had inflicted with her own hands, laughing wildly.

good my acting skills are? The whole world thought I had saved Jason. With that debt of gratitude, Jason wouldn’t

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her eyes again, gradually blurring her vision. She thought she didn’t care about those past misfortunes deliberately orchestrated by fate. But now, it felt like Ada had ripped open her raw wounds again, shattering all her self–composure.