Chapter 33

Karen took advantage of Thalassa’s distraction to free herself and run into Kris’s arms.

“Kris… sweetheart, please help me. She wants to kill me. She wants to kill me. Just look… look what she has done to me,” Karen cried, pointing at her face where Thalassa’s slap had left it as red as a beetroot.

Kris was stunned at what he was seeing on Karen’s face. The slap marks were so brutal that he couldn’t believe Thalassa had done something like this. He’d never known her to be a violent person. How could she have changed so much?

“What has gotten into you? How dare you treat Karen like this?!” he sneered.

“Don’t speak to her like that,” Zeke demanded as he appeared behind Kris and walked to stand beside Thalassa.

Instinctively, he cradled Thalassa’s cheek in his hands as he asked, “Are you okay?

Thalassa stiffened at the unexpected touch, but she didn’t pull away as she nodded.

Kris instantly recognized the man. It was Zeke Mathews, the man Thalassa had gotten involved with just a few days after their divorce. His eyes darkened as he and Zeke glared at each other, tension thick in the air.

Kris finally looked away, returning his gaze to Thalassa. “You weren’t satisfied after attacking my mom and my sister, and now you’re attacking Karen?”

up for her or defended her from his family’s humiliation. But here he was, defending Karen so passionately.

you need to be schooled on the meaning of attack. They came to my company to attack

don’t you

slowly turned his head towards Karen, who panicked slightly before quickly speaking, “L… I only came here to plead with her to stop targeting our family, and she got upset and did this to me. She accused me of all

believing Karen was still using that tactic.

your mother’s accomplice. That the two of us paid someone

blazed as he looked back at Thalassa. “When are you going to stop with all the lies and

would say that, because you never once cared about our child,” Thalassa fumed. “It happened on the night you and your family kicked me out of your house, was alone and wandering the streets in the middle of the night. That’s when I got

you think it’s my mother?” Kris

me he’d been sent to give me a message, and he kicked me several times in the abdomen until I passed out. I

true, then why did you never call me

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Chapter 33

company several times, but you never came to see

sent you a-

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