Chapter 2022 Retribution For Harming Others
- Watching May bawl so piteously, Mia felt no surge of relief. Instead, a stabbing, bitter ache spread through her chest. May was willing to lay down her life for Talia, yet once upon a time, Mia had cherished May as lovingly as a daughter loved her mother. She trusted the woman so completely that she let a mere nanny manage every affair of the household, allowing her to live in the lap of luxury like the true matron of the Sennett residence. And May’s response? She did not want that borrowed splendor—she wanted Mia dead and her own daughter installed as the Sennett family’s matriarch. The cruelest pain was not a single betrayal, nor even betrayal by one loved one, but being betrayed simultaneously by everyone one held closest. The anguish cramped Mia’s heart until she could hardly breathe.
- Clutching her chest, she shut her eyes and declared, “I don’t want to see any of you again. Get out, all of you! Rot in prison. I never want to lay eyes on you ever again!”
- “No, Mimi, please don’t!” May collapsed to her knees, sobbing. “Mimi, Talia is still so young; she can’t go to prison. Everything was my doing—if you’re angry, punish me instead. Whatever calms your fury, do it to me—spare Talia. She’s my only daughter; I ask for nothing but her health and safety. I beg you, for the sake of the years I nursed you, let her go. I’m begging you!”