Chapter 2156 Times Keep Moving
- "Oh, all for my good?" Darren let out a brittle laugh that echoed through the living room. "You brainwashed me, taught me to beat my wife, to forget she was a person—two marriages destroyed. That's love? My wife is gone, my daughter is gone—tell me, Mom, exactly what part of me is 'good' now?"
- "I... I never thought they'd actually leave you..." Matilda staggered to the sofa, collapsed onto the cushions, and hammered them with her fists before bursting into raw sobs. "How could I have known their tempers were so vicious? When I married your father, he hit me harder than you ever hit them, and I never dreamed of divorce! Your father doesn't raise a hand now, and we're just fine, aren't we? So how was I supposed to know those girls would insist on leaving?"
- The question clawed through her mind like broken glass: What kind of wretched fate is this?