"Darling, what happened?" Maggie's voice came through the phone.
"Mommy, Kyle has become like this, is God punishing me?" Derek sounded like a helpless child, seeking comfort from his mother.
"How can you be so disheartened? This is not like my son at all!" Maggie didn't seem to care about his feelings but brought up something else, "Listen, if they ask, you must say that Faye's child is dead!"
Derek was taken aback by Maggie's words. "Mommy, but that child is not dead..."
Maggie's sharp voice pierced through the phone. "Do you want that cursed child to return to the Whitmore family and kill us all?"
Listening to his mother's words, Derek felt a sense of resistance for the first time.
In the past, he was unwilling to go against her wishes for the sake of his mother's emotions, but as
