Chapter 374 Alice’s Collapse
“Lauren, you have to believe me–I love you. I carried you for nine months and gave birth to you. How could I possibly abandon you at an orphanage? It was your father, that bastard–he was the one who did it. I didn’t know anything! Now that I’ve finally found you, please come back with me, alright? Don’t you love dresses? I’ll buy you as many as you want, anything
you want.”
Lauren laughed silently.
She didn’t love dresses. She loved receiving things from the Mavis family. Even if they gave her a leaf or a stone, if it came from them, she’d treasure it.
As for Alice, she could pluck the moon from the sky and hand it to her, and Lauren still wouldn’t care.
Lauren burrowed deeper into Madam Shirley’s arms.
“Mommy, I’m so tired.”
Madam Shirley gently patted her back, her eyes full of affection.
“Then sleep, sweetheart. We had so many reporters here today–you must be exhausted.”
With that, she scooped Lauren up in her arms and headed upstairs.
Alice lunged forward, trying to snatch Lauren back.
“Where are you taking my daughter? Give her back to me!”
Mr. Timely stepped in immediately and blocked her. “You’re not welcome here. Leave.”
“Leave? Why should I leave? If you want a daughter so badly, have your own! Why do you have to steal mine? You people are shameless!
Mr. Timely frowned. He had no patience for this lunatic.
“Throw her out.”
At his word, two black–suited bodyguards stepped forward, grabbed Alice, and dragged her out the front door.
No matter how loudly she screamed or how hard she pounded, no one came to open it again.
As the sky darkened, Alice finally gave up. Her voice hoarse and her body aching, she turned and trudged away from the
Mavis estate.
She returned to the cramped little apartment they’d been renting.
Just as she reached the door, she heard shouting from inside.
“Elliot! What the hell were you thinking? This is how you look after your sister? While your mother and I were in detention, you brought her to live in this dump? You’re a boy–fine, let suffering toughen you up. But your sister? She was raised in luxury! She can’t live like this! You did this on purpose, didn’t you? Just like your mother. Both of you are a damn headache!”
Alice’s temple twitched.
So this is how David treated their son behind her back?
If he could treat Elliot like this, how badly must he have treated Lauren when no one was looking?
With a loud crash, the apartment door was kicked open.
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Chapter 374 Alice’s Collapse
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She didn’t say a word.
She grabbed the broom by the wall and started beating him with it, over and over, not holding back at all.
David ducked and scrambled like a rat.
“You crazy woman! Stop it!”
But Alice was beyond reason. She kept swinging, harder and harder. It didn’t take long before David’s face was black and blue.
Willow cowered in the corner, too terrified to move.
She wasn’t dumb. She could tell–something in her mom had changed.
Ever since that Mavis girl’s birthday party, her mother looked at her like she was trash.
Elliot just stood there and watched his father get beaten. He didn’t say a word.
When Alice finally wore herself out, she threw the broom aside and screamed. “David, who the hell do you think you are yelling at my son!!”
David gritted his teeth. “I yelled because I care! And this is how you repay me? You lose your mind over something this small? Alice, what happened to you? You’re acting like a crazy person!”
Alice let out a wild, bitter laugh. Tears streamed down her face.
“You say Willow was raised soft and can’t take hardship. But my son can? My daughter–the one you abandoned at birth–is supposed to suffer? Is that it?”
David froze.
She kn
That wasn’t possible. How!
“You’re talking nonsense. I don’t know what you
mean.
Alice slapped him across the face.
-You murdered my father. You threw our newborn daughter into an orphanage. Then you brought this little brat back here. this bastard child from your affair with that woman, and made me raise her. You’re a monster. David. You’re disgusting
