The Darling of the Paranoid Tycoon by Cheryl Rice

Chapter 47 A Mother’s Guilt

Clifton was taken aback by the fury in Bessie’s eyes.

He couldn’t understand why Bessie suddenly turned so volatile.

Regaining his senses, he pushed her away and lashed out at her.

“You must be going through menopause. Your mind is all twisted. Didn’t Nora reject Mr. Delbert’s proposal and let Harriet marry him. instead? The person on the island is naturally Harriet.”

Bessie was aware of these facts, but she had sold Harriet to the human traffickers. Harriet should be on the ship bound for Happy Harpers.

A sense of foreboding gripped her, intensifying her headache.

Unable to bear it any longer, Bessie grabbed her phone and dialed the number of the traffickers.

But no matter how many times she tried, the line remained dead.

Her face grew paler, and her mind went into turmoil.

Suddenly, she remembered the peculiarities of the sack and ther agonized struggles of the person inside when she pricked it with needles.

the car to the island without

one horrifying possibility that the person

her beloved daughter

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handed her over to the traffickers, allowing them to take her chastity on the

had pushed her daughter into the abyss of

deserve to be

with anguish, Bessie collapsed onto

my poor Nora! It was all my fault. I am so

piercing cries left Clifton clueless and

crazy woman!

down and take your mother

he yelled, Nora

are just leeching off me and constantly provoking me. You’re utterly useless. Even that fool, Harriet, is better

to find her, so I don’t have to endure seeing you two.”

venting his anger, Clifton stormed upstairs to retrieve the antique treasures he had collected over the years.

intended to visit Delbert on the island and plead for help in