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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his tone seething with

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.

voice rising with each word. "Do you have any idea what kind

with an explanation. "It's not what it looks like," she protested weakly, her voice

"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. She had thought she was being clever and thought she could manipulate the situation to her advantage. But now, faced with her father's righteous anger, she knew she had only succeeded in making a fool

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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her father's wrath in person, but she knew she had no choice but to obey. In a slight panic, she hung up the phone

speculations about him. But Daniel, who

that if her parents could not solve this, her life was practically over. She could

home, her mother was fuming. She inched into

what about Dad?" she

How am I supposed to survive this humiliation?" Selene's mother screamed and swiped the side table beside her, sending all the

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

her anger simmering as she picked up the phone and dialed the

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

her mind raced with thoughts of the confrontation that

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

sharp with anger.

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