When Love Comes Late by PASSION

She turned to Bella, her eyes filled with disappointment and accusation.

“Are you actually blaming me? Could you stand idly by while your daughter was almost r@ped?”

Bella closed her eyes, inhaling deeply before responding with measured calm.

“Don’t you know why Leo did that? Elizabeth, are you still refusing to face the reality? When we return to Dorburn, you’re going to be grounded for three months.

I hope you use this time to contemplate your actions.

”

Elizabeth clenched her teeth, locked eyes with Bella, and growled, “You can’t simply do this to me! Even if you lock me at home, I’ll find a way to Seamarsh.

”

“What so important here that you can’t part with it? Bella barked, her frustration boiling over.

“Have you no regard for your own reputation? What do you aim to achieve with this theatrics?”

Bella felt a growing chasm between herself and her daughter.

The daughter she knew, once gentle and earnest, seemed like a shadow of the past.

The transformation into the person before her was incomprehensible.

can you not understand?”

done it

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she didn’t name him,

was speaking

Bella exclaimed,

He’s a married man!”

I

he slips away, I’ll

Slap!

sharply on Elizabeth’s

bear to listen to such delusional words from her own flesh and

sting in her palm reverberated as the force of

a stark contrast to the love

laid a hand

face, a mix of betrayal and sorrow

know nothing of my struggles

want out of this family more

gaze froze as she looked at her

apologize to Elizabeth for impulsively striking her, but she was caught off

her desire not to stay with her

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