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No matter how disappointed Shayla had grown in her three sons, they were still her flesh and blood. She invested a significant fortune to help the Kalen brothers pass the company’s internal trials, ensuring they were accepted into the Kalen Group and secured a position of respect.

Having managed a company herself, Shayla understood all too well that in business, connections and loyalty often outweighed raw talent. If her sons could establish themselves within the family enterprise, their paths would be immeasurably smoother.

The inheritance Shayla left was substantial, yet she had spent the greater part of it supporting her sons. By the time she passed on, the remaining funds were enough to ensure her daughter’s comfort–but when Wendy later faced a desperate financial crisis, Sharon gave her everything she had. After that, Sharon was left with almost nothing.

Thomas said, “You and Shayla are alike–you’re both good mothers. Maybe because she once loved you so deeply, you learned how to love others in return.”

Sharon turned to look at him. “And you?”

“Me?” His expression didn’t change.

“What kind of person was your mother?”

Thomas’s tone was calm, but a quiet chill lingered beneath it. “She probably wished I’d never been born.”

hesitated, wanting to say that no mother in the world could truly hate her child. But the words caught in her throat. There were mothers who

truth.

Thomas went on.

that shouldn’t have been. From the moment

as a curse.

was rare; only my mother’s matched. She wanted to donate, but she was in labor with me–and hysterical. By the time she gave birth, my brother

grandparents died, one after another. When I was six, my father died in an accident, too. From the day I was

was your fault. You were just a child. You couldn’t

gets close to

she tried- burning, drowning–it never worked. Once,

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died in

low, mirthless laugh. “Maybe I really am cursed. Anyone