Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 323

A suffocating sense of dread filled the air.

Gaye recoiled, her neck shrinking into her shoulders, her earlier outburst dissolving into quiet, hiccuping sobs.

Mila said nothing. She forced a strained smile onto her face, trying to keep things calm as all eyes bore down on her. Gripping her mother's arm, she steered the woman out of the school.

She couldn't let Gaye cause another scene here.

Once outside the school gates, Mila realized it wasn't just her mother who had come for her. Her father, Simon Sutherland, and her uncle were there too.

It was obvious they hadn't come with good intentions.

Ignoring Gaye's complaints about booking a hotel, Mila instead reserved a private dining room at a nearby restaurant and led them all there.

She and Gaye arrived first.

The moment they stepped inside, Gaye clung to her hand, tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Oh, Mila, after all these years with no word from you, I thought I'd lost you-l cried myself to sleep every night. Now that I see you're doing so well, I can finally rest easy."

She looked the picture of motherly affection, as if she hadn't just been threatening to kill herself and blaming her daughter back at the school.

Mila yanked her hand away, her voice cold. "Cut the act. Don't pretend to care- it's disgusting."

much to bring you into this world and raise you, and instead of being grateful, you

to me? Raised

away, she'd have starved or been beaten to death by now-or worse, sold off to buy her idiot

remain unmoved, Gaye's eyes flickered with calculation. She

nice jacket. You're living the good life out here, aren't you? Why didn't you ever come home to tell us, let us stop worrying? You don't know how hard things are

Mila shoved her away.

She turned

your daughter! After all these years, she's turned

Forgot how to respect your elders, have

jerked away, but his fingertips still caught

It stung like fire.

knives.

herself-just in time to feel her scalp yanked backward. Her wool

her fingers over

Mila dodged.

little brother- walking in just then. As soon as he saw her, his eyes lit up,

grown up

foot. As he howled in pain, she snatched a teacup off the table, smashed it,

thin line of blood oozed from his

the door, ready to bolt at the slightest sign of danger, the bloodied shard aimed squarely

really here?" she demanded. "Don't bother pretending. I know exactly