NovelGoldChapter 49.
Chapter 49
“Stop crying,” | said, my face cold. “If | didn’t love you, how would you have grown up at all?
“I just want you to understand that if you want real love, you have to give it back. It's not that I'm treating you
badly. It’s that you never appreciate anything.”
Yvonne froze for a second and then went right back to sulking. “Anyway, you just don’t loveanymore.
Grandma said if you don’t love me, Daddy will just find a bunch of other women to love me. | don’t need you.”
| was stunned. That was exactly the kind of thing Sally would say. It looked like she had been filling Yvonne's
head with this behind my back.
This was why Yvonne didn’t takeseriously. In the Holcomb family, | had no standing or voice. | was invisible.
No wonder Yvonne didn’t respectas her mom.
| understood what | had failed to realize in my previous life, and the thought was bitter and sad.
It turned out that a woman had to fight for her place and her voice, no matter what. Otherwise, even my own
family would look down onand treatlike | didn’t matter.
“Wow, you're really something now, huh? Already wishing forand your dad to get divorced,” | said, crossing
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtmy legs and leaning back lazily in my chair. “If someone really can take my place as your mom, I'll gladly hand
over the spot.”
“No way would you,” Yvonne shot back, rolling her eyes. “You love Dad so much. If he dumped you, you'd cry
your eyes out. Don’t think | don’t know you.”
“So that’s what you think of me, Yvonne? That your mom has no backbone?” | raised an eyebrow.
“Yeah, or else what? You think you're stough woman? Last tyou said you were running away, you barely
made it out the door before you remembered you had laundry drying upstairs and ran right back,” Yvonne
mocked me, bringing up my
past.
| had nothing to say because she was right.
“l used to be weak, but from now on, I'm going to be strong. Yvonne, if you still think ofas your mom, you'd
better start respecting me. If not, you'll losevery soon,” | said, standing up.
Then | ordered her, “You have one minute to take your medicine. If you don’t, | won't go easy on you.”
Yvonne's eyes went wide, and tears welled up as she picked up the cup and forced the pills into her mouth one
by one.
| didn’t want to see her all pitiful and upset, so | turned away and stood by the window, watching the city lights
flicker in the dark.
The room was silent for a long time. Yvonne hugged her blanket, cried for a bit, and then drifted off to sleep.
| closed my eyes and sat down on the small sofa, feeling heavy and bitter inside. It looked like divorce was the
only way out
now.
| pulled out my phone. It was already half past ten, and Jared still hadn’t shown up.
Honestly, | really wanted to call him, just to hear if he’d scramble for an excuse.
But then | realized if | made that
move, it would show he still had
control over me. | was(@ping fo 1!
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Chapter 49
At eleven, Jared finally cback,
holding a box of steak. When he Saw
that Yvonne wasted) aStéep, he
skt the Nek in front ofand said
softly, “Didn't you always say steak
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As he sat next to me, | could smell a
faint trace of rose pgrfunecso, he
really was With fer all this time. The
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