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

in for an earful." What are you talking about?"

all over the Internet," her father spat, his voice rising with each word. "Do you have

mind racing as she struggled to come up with an explanation. "It's

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. She had thought she was being

Selene," her father continued, his

knife.

in an hour, you can pack your bags and

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but she knew she had no choice but to obey. In a slight panic, she hung up the phone and gathered her things; she wanted

Daniel, who had kept quiet all these

Selene turned and headed for home. She knew that if her parents could not solve this,

she got home, her mother was fuming. She inched into the house slowly to

what about Dad?" she

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 mother screamed and swiped the side table beside her, sending all the things on scattering to the ground. "Dad really has a mistress

you so interested in a married man? You follow him everywhere; people talk behind your back, 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 deceiving

anger simmering as she picked up the phone and dialed the

Daniel would put her on the spot this way. She had just had a row with her husband about his mistress outside and was severely

her mind raced with thoughts of

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

with anger. "I need to speak to you about

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