The Phantom Heiress Rising From The Shadows

Chapter 1071:

Elsa snapped back, not backing down. “Enough with this nonsense! My sons are adults. They’ll make their own choices about me, and it’s none of your business! You talk about me being controlling, but you’re just as bad!”

While the shouting match carried on, Ethan, Bess, and Ronald quietly rolled Belen back to her hospital room, pretending not to hear it.

Not long after, Elsa came in, still reeling from the harsh words and the slap she’d endured. Tears streamed down her cheeks.

She turned to Ethan, voice trembling. “Your father’s thrown me out. He won’t even let me back in the house. I don’t have anywhere else to go. Can I stay with you for a while?”

Ethan looked at her for a long moment, his face unreadable. Bess quietly pulled out a pack of tissues and offered one to Elsa.

Elsa dabbed at her eyes with the tissue, but her tears wouldn’t stop. In her mind, nobody had it worse than she did. Everyone blamed her, and even her own sons wouldn’t stand up for her. She felt so aggrieved.

Ethan answered in a detached voice, “I’ve got plenty of places you can stay. Pick whichever one you like.”

meaning behind his words was that he didn’t want to

stopped in an

didn’t want Elsa to live with him

to live. You don’t

younger, you know. My blood pressure’s through the roof, and I need to take my medicine every day. What if something happens when I’m all alone? You’d let me just

massaged his temples, resigned. “I’ll hire a full-time maid to take

to just let Emmett chase me out of my own house. I

never back down without a

in getting dragged into his parents’ mess. They could

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