The Wrong Woman

Chapter 351

Mila explained, “It’s because Grandma came in too often and it truly bothered me,”

“That was her way of showing her love and your reaction was actually hurting her,” Zach said.

Mila hadn’t realized it until now. She felt guilty about it.

Zach continued, “You never opened the presents that your grandma buys for you. You just put them in your cupboard.”

Mila remained silent. It wasn’t that she didn’t like it when Loretta bought her presents. She just wasn’t interested in the presents she bought.

She loved learning, reading, machines, astronomy, geography, and all kinds of things to do with knowledge. Yet, Loretta gave her clothes, stuffed animals, jewelry, luxuries, and cosmetics.

“Every time your grandma talked to you, you would lose patience after a few sentences. But you could talk to me forever without tiring. Your grandma saw this and felt hurt.

“She didn’t get a lot of education and is fond of small talk and gossip. But that’s how she sees the world. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to keep up with you.” Zach thought about Loretta’s hardships over the years and was moved.

her head, feeling even worse. She had never realized the pain she had

Loretta.

herself in books. She doesn’t study and say things that your grandma doesn’t understand. She pleases your grandma with her

your grandma gives her, loves receiving the gifts your grandma buys her, loves hearing your grandma’s gossip, and even loves hanging out with your grandma. She even loves spending time with your

refusing to accept you. She simply can’t accept the fact that her granddaughter, who came back as an adult, still hates her as much as

and choked up, “I’ve never hated. Grandma or looked down on her since I was a little girl. I–I just wasn’t

said, “Even though I can understand it, your grandma. probably can’t. Her mind isn’t that complex. She needs simple expressions and direct feelings.

get it. Grandma doesn’t love the fake Sally.

hate her even more now when she thinks about how she used to scold and insult you for the sake of the fake Sally. She thought she’d already

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room and muttered, “I never

eating. “Wanda, it’s okay for you to resent her. That old woman is truly

didn’t recognize me either,” Mila

because he hasn’t seen you for ten years and young people believe in science. It’s different