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Her mother shook her head slowly at first, then more sharply, as if the motion itself could dislodge the absurdity.“You don’t mean it,” she said. “You cannot possibly mean what you just said.”Mia, exhausted and still simmering from the memory of the day, looked at her with the tired bitterness of someone who wished she were exaggerating.“I do,” she said. “I mean exactly what I said.”But her mother was not yet ready to accept it. Not fully. She paced again, lifted one hand in agitation, then let it drop against her side with a sound of frustration.“Are you trying to tell me,” she said, voice rising with disbelief, “that Ethan is actually this powerful? That bastard? Are you telling me that he is rich and we did not know? What the hell is going on? Did he get rich overnight? Did heaven suddenly open and pour fortune on his head while everyone was looking somewhere else? Since when? Since when did everything start suddenly going well for him? What is this? What kind of madness is th
Chapter 151
Her mother shook her head slowly at first, then more sharply, as if the motion itself could dislodge the absurdity.“You don’t mean it,” she said. “You cannot possibly mean what you just said.”Mia, exhausted and still simmering from the memory of the day, looked at her with the tired bitterness of someone who wished she were exaggerating.“I do,” she said. “I mean exactly what I said.”But her mother was not yet ready to accept it. Not fully. She paced again, lifted one hand in agitation, then let it drop against her side with a sound of frustration.“Are you trying to tell me,” she said, voice rising with disbelief, “that Ethan is actually this powerful? That bastard? Are you telling me that he is rich and we did not know? What the hell is going on? Did he get rich overnight? Did heaven suddenly open and pour fortune on his head while everyone was looking somewhere else? Since when? Since when did everything start suddenly going well for him? What is this? What kind of madness is th
Chapter 150
Her mother shook her head slowly at first, then more sharply, as if the motion itself could dislodge the absurdity.“You don’t mean it,” she said. “You cannot possibly mean what you just said.”Mia, exhausted and still simmering from the memory of the day, looked at her with the tired bitterness of someone who wished she were exaggerating.“I do,” she said. “I mean exactly what I said.”But her mother was not yet ready to accept it. Not fully. She paced again, lifted one hand in agitation, then let it drop against her side with a sound of frustration.“Are you trying to tell me,” she said, voice rising with disbelief, “that Ethan is actually this powerful? That bastard? Are you telling me that he is rich and we did not know? What the hell is going on? Did he get rich overnight? Did heaven suddenly open and pour fortune on his head while everyone was looking somewhere else? Since when? Since when did everything start suddenly going well for him? What is this? What kind of madness is th
Chapter 149
Her mother shook her head slowly at first, then more sharply, as if the motion itself could dislodge the absurdity.“You don’t mean it,” she said. “You cannot possibly mean what you just said.”Mia, exhausted and still simmering from the memory of the day, looked at her with the tired bitterness of someone who wished she were exaggerating.“I do,” she said. “I mean exactly what I said.”But her mother was not yet ready to accept it. Not fully. She paced again, lifted one hand in agitation, then let it drop against her side with a sound of frustration.“Are you trying to tell me,” she said, voice rising with disbelief, “that Ethan is actually this powerful? That bastard? Are you telling me that he is rich and we did not know? What the hell is going on? Did he get rich overnight? Did heaven suddenly open and pour fortune on his head while everyone was looking somewhere else? Since when? Since when did everything start suddenly going well for him? What is this? What kind of madness is th
Chapter 148
At that, Mia began to explain properly, and as she did, her anger gained shape, because retelling insult often reactivates it more vividly than the original moment itself.“We were at JSK Luxury,” she said, “and everything was normal at first, or at least as normal as things could be, and then Ethan showed up there. He came there. He was there in person. At first I thought it was nonsense, some ridiculous coincidence, some stupid stunt. We confronted him. We insulted him. I insulted him. The secretary at the front was speaking as if he was nobody, as if he couldn’t afford anything there. Everyone around us treated him like he didn’t belong.”Her mother nodded impatiently, as though this part at least made sense.“Yes, and then?”“And then,” Mia said, her tone darkening, “everything turned.”She paused, and her mother’s face tightened.“The director of JSK Luxury knew him,” Mia said.Her mother blinked.Mia continued, more slowly now, because even she still hated how absurd it sounded.
Chapter 147
Mia stood in the center of the sitting room for a few seconds after her mother had asked her to talk, and although she had already said enough for it to be obvious that her day had gone terribly, the full weight of it still sat on her chest in such a way that she almost did not know where to begin, because some days are bad in a simple, singular way, one disappointment following another in a pattern that can be explained plainly, but what had happened to her that day felt more like being dragged through one humiliation after another, each one stranger than the last, each one somehow tied to Ethan, and the more she thought about it, the more the whole thing offended her pride in a way that made her hands tighten unconsciously at her sides.Her mother, who knew her daughter well enough to recognize when anger was competing with embarrassment, moved a little closer and watched her carefully, waiting, impatient in the way only a mother can be when she knows something has happened but has
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