Chloe Parker had left when Olivia was eight.
It was Jeff’s birthday, and Olivia had been in high spirits, eager to return home and celebrate her father’s birthday with her family. She never knew that what awaited her was her parents’ divorce.
Olivia had chased after her mother, scrambling down the stairs and falling. She did not even realize that she had lost her shoes. All she cared about was clinging onto her mother’s legs and crying, “Mom, don’t go!”
The graceful woman bent down, stroked Olivia’s cheeks, and said, “I’m sorry.”
“Mom, I’m first in my grade. You haven’t seen my test papers yet. You have to sign them. Don’t leave me, Mom. I’ll be a good girl. I promise I won’t go to any more fun fairs. I won’t make you mad. I’ll listen to you. Please …”
Hastily, young Olivia blubbered everything she could think of in hopes of making Chloe stay. In the end, Chloe simply told Olivia that her marriage with Olivia’s father was not a happy one and that she had found her true happiness elsewhere.
Later, Olivia watched as a man she had never met helped Chloe place her luggage in a car, and they both left while holding each other’s hands. She chased after their car for a mile without wearing any shoes before crashing heavily onto the ground.
Her feet and knees were scraped, and they bled as she stared at the gradually diminishing outline of the car that she could never reach.
At that time, she could not understand what had happened. Now that she was grown up, she knew that it was because her mother had been caught cheating on her father and simply decided to file for a divorce, leaving him with everything, including Olivia herself.
Chloe had never contacted Olivia, and the latter hated her with every fiber of her being. She even hoped that she would never have to meet Chloe again.
However, fate worked in mysterious ways, and Olivia could do nothing to stop it. Her throat went dry and her feet turned to lead.
Chloe knew what was on her daughter’s mind. She approached Olivia and pulled her to sit beside her. “I know you hate me. You were very young back then. Lots of things weren’t as simple as they seemed, so I wasn’t able to explain them to you.”
now. Liv, now that I’m back, I’ll be staying here permanently. I know something’s happened to the Fordham family. It doesn’t matter, though, because
hatred she harbored toward her mother was not worth
stay and have dinner. Chris has taken good care of me for the past few years. He has a
plans to make herself part of Chloe’s new family. She hastily interrupted her, “Mom, I’m here this time for my dad. My family’s bankrupt now, and Dad just had a heart attack, but I don’t have the money to pay for his
had not yet replied when
money, aren’t you? Going so far as to come
the face. Olivia looked incredulously
be except Marina
never thought that
those two had caught her in the act of asking her mother for
her uneasiness, but he remained
cry pierced through the awkwardness in the air. Olivia noticed a maid pushing in a twin stroller. The
family of four. Olivia’s child
being embarrassed and humiliated over and over again. Strangely, one of the babies could not stop crying today. The maid rushed to prepare
Ethan continued soothing the baby. “Be good, and
of a tall man like him holding a baby gently in his arms was heart-warming. Seeing this patient and gentle side of him,
her from doing so. Even more strangely, the child stopped crying and
its lips curved into a smile, and its eyes twinkled as it looked at her. The
on her cap. The child was all smiles, which was
a blade had ruthlessly stabbed into her heart, and it was
truly loved her. He had been kind
whispering to her, “Liv, let’s
could she refuse
completed her studies, she did not
her, he did
darted into the toilet. Then, she
much today. When she puked, all that came out was a mixture of her blood and the medications she took. Crimson