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“Jeremy, why are you wasting so many words on her? Does she even deserve that?” Mom snapped.
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“Look how heartless and cruel she is! She’s getting engaged and didn’t even invite her own mother! What kind of engagement party would this be if the bride’s mother wasn’t even present?
“Has there ever been a proper engagement in this world where the parents weren’t invited? If she won’t even call her parents, what’s the point of getting engaged?”
My mom already thought I was a terrible person–cold, heartless, ven cruel. So when I got engaged and didn’t invite her, her belief that I was utterly heartless only deepened.
“I’m telling you, no decent person would ever do something like this!”
The more she ranted, the more worked up she got. Her voice rose higher and higher , completely out of control.
That sharp, piercing tone immediately caught the attention of everyone nearby.
Jeremy panicked and rushed to her, clamping a hand over her mouth in an attempt to shut her up. His voice was strained with anger and desperation as he hissed, “Mom, what are you doing? You promised me that you would behave!”
He was trying to calm her down , but instead, she violently slapped his hand away and screamed even louder, “What did I promise?
“No matter how much you try to reason with me, no matter how much you want me to forgive her just because I’m her mother, I can’t, and I won’t!”
She jabbed a finger at me, her face contorted with fury. “Emilia, you bitch! How can you be so disgusting? Why do you always have to steal what Lumi wants?
“If I had known you would grow up to be so vile and shameless, I swear I would’ve strangled you the moment you were born!”
She had recently gotten the truth out of my father–how William had taken Julianne to his home. She knew how much Julianne had loved him and how deeply she had wanted to be with him.
She had practically lost her mind with joy, thinking Julianne might finally have a chance with someone like him.
But in the end, it wasn’t Julianne who was marrying him. It was me
Mom couldn’t take it. She completely unraveled.
In her mind, Julianne’s heartbreak and failure to get the man she loved became her own wound. She remembered her own past -how there was someone she once loved deeply and could never have.
That same bitterness, that same desperation, all came flooding back. And she projected it all onto me.
She wanted to destroy me for being the one who always seemed to get what Julianne wanted most effortlessly.
Julianne had loved Irvin. She had wanted him so badly, but never got him. Instead, I was the one who had married him.
Now, Julianne longed for William. And once again, I would be the one marrying him without putting in any effort.
It made her hate me even more.
She wondered how I could have everything she and Julianne could only dream of so easily.
And now, on top of that, I had thrown an engagement party and didn’t even invite her. To Mom, it was the ultimate insult.
She completely lost it. She didn’t care about anything anymore. She only wanted to ruin me and my engagement.
“Mom, stop it! You’re being crazy!” Jeremy yelled, scared and furious. He rushed forward and grabbed her, trying to drag her
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As he pulled her, he glanced nervously at the gathering crowd andhouted, “Everyone, please Ignore her! She’s not feeling well. She’s suffering from dementia and doesn’t know what she’s saying!”
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