Chapter 391

Delilah eased her car into the garage with practiced precision, and as she stepped out into the cool evening air, she noticed Zach was still in the yard, waiting for her. She walked towards him with an unusual expression, “Why aren’t you inside?”

Zach’s gaze lingered on his mother’s face before he spoke, “Mom, did you meet with Summer tonight?”

At the mention of Summer, a shadow crossed Delilah’s face, and she took a moment before nodding, “Yeah,

she had something to discuss with me.”

Zach fell silent for a beat, “About Leo, right?”

A soft hum escaped Delilah, laced with a pang of sorrow. “I never imagined she could do something like this, completely disregarding years of sibling bonds.”

Had it not been for the call she received from Summer, Delilah would have been oblivious to the online debacle, and she wouldn’t have fathomed Summer’s personality becoming so radical.

“It’s probably because she feels we have wronged her somehow,” Zach said with a calm detachment.

vividly remembered the day Summer turned her back on the Davis family, sneering at their modest means, eager to leave what she

she still resented their

more ludicrous was that she might’ve not even remembered the reasons behind Nick’s departure to a foreign land.

to get Leo to clear things up online, doesn’t she?”

with bitterness as she nodded. The daughter she had cared for had hurt her own flesh and blood; the irony of it

consequences of their actions. You don’t have to put yourself in a difficult position over a sense of kinship that has lost its

family ties, she wouldn’t have done what she did. Now that she had crossed that line, why should they respond to her

head, Delilah turned and walked

struggle and hesitation of a mother for the child she had raised for over a decade.

his phone and sent a

The next day.

her classmates, burying herself in her books all day. Whether she absorbed a word was another matter entirely. When the final bell rang, she packed up and quickly left the classroom. Zach had asked to meet

into Mirabella. Seeing Mirabella suddenly made the whispers of her classmates seem insignificant. It was only in the presence

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