MISTAKE 68

Chapter 68: Humiliation

Anya could not believe it. Why did he respond? All these years, he had never responded. And what did he mean by she just ran away from home? Wasn't Anya married again? With a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach, Selene realized that her plans had backfired spectacularly. She looks up at the smiling Anya in horror. He remarried her?

"You remarried Daniel?" Selene screamed.

"Yes, and?" Anya asked, and Selene felt humiliated.

"She came to mock the wife?" someone asked.

"No wonder Mr. Shaw had to say something. Even a mistress can get up and mock the legal wife these days. How brave," another said. Selene could no longer take all the mockery. She had always held her head high, looking down on most women. Now they had the chance to walk over her; how could they let her go? Staying here would mean listening to insults.

And as she picked up her bags and hurried out of the salon, the chuckles and giggles of the other patrons rang in her ears. She understood one thing: Daniel had destroyed her.

Selene's phone buzzed in her hand, and she hesitated for a moment before answering, her heart sinking as she saw her father's name flashing on the screen.

"What do you want?" She snapped, her voice sharp with frustration.

Her father's voice came through the line, loud and angry. "Selene, what the hell have you

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demanded, his tone seething

sound of her father's rage, knowing she was in for an earful." What are you talking about?" she replied, trying to keep her voice steady despite the rising. panic

video that's all over the Internet," her father spat, his voice rising with each word. "Do you have any idea

her mind racing as she struggled to come up with an explanation. "It's not what

snapped, his tone icy with disdain. "You've embarrassed our family, humiliated yourself, and for what? After all your years of pursuing him, you cannot even touch him." Selene winced at her father's words, the truth of his words hitting her square in the face.

Selene," her father continued, his voice cutting

knife.

If you are not back in an hour, you can pack your bags and get out. I don't need

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but to obey. In a slight panic, she hung up the phone and gathered

speculations about him. But Daniel, who had kept quiet all these

if her parents could not solve this, her life was practically

the time she got home, her mother was fuming. She inched into the

what about Dad?"

know? He dared to have a mistress outside; now Daniel Shaw has mocked us in public. How am I supposed to survive this humiliation?" Selene's

and some even say to my face that my daughter is a mistress. But you could not even be a proper mistress. You have been applying for the job all this while and have never gotten it, yet you have been

stormed into the kitchen, her anger simmering as she picked up the phone and dialed the number

the spot this way. She had

rang, her mind raced with thoughts of the confrontation that

rings, Daniel's mother picked up, her voice cool and composed. "Hello?" she

her voice sharp with anger. "I need to speak to

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