SOME THINGS ARE MEANT TO BE

CHAPTER 97

“Mom, please... I beg you.”

Julianna rushed forward and held tightly onto Evelyn’s ankles with both hands. “Mom,” she cried, begging, “even if everything was my fault, the child has done nothing wrong.

“She is only three years old, and she did not know anything. She is your granddaughter—very adorable. Please. Please save her. Just take pity on us. As long as you are willing to save her, I will do anything you want. I will die if that’s what you want, as long as you save my daughter.”

Julianna’s hands hugged tightly onto Evelyn’s ankles. She dare not let go for fear. If she died, she would lose Raya.

A look of hesitation flashed past Evelyn’s face. She closed her eyes, and Diana came to her mind. For the past four years, Roberto has been depressed; and she has her guilt. All caused by this woman. Because of you , Benjamin's household, Roberto, and herself were ruined.

“This is retribution, Julianna. You are the cause of everything that has happened.”

She hardened herself and pulled her leg away, but Julianna’s grip was so tight that she could not move a single step.

“Mom, please...” Julianna sprawled on the ground. Mud covered her face. She lay crumpled, with no dignity. Her left hand was weak, and yet she continued to hold on tightly to Evelyn’s ankles. There was no way she would let go. She just couldn’t.

“Please... save her. Will you please save my daughter? She is all alone in the hospital now. No one is there to care or dote on her. She has suffered with me since she was born. She is very pitiful. Mom, I beg you. I will do anything for you. Please...”

The color drained from Evelyn’s face. She felt an unbearable feeling in her heart that seemed to touch on something or someplace she did not wish to remember.

“Somebody, come and take this mad woman away!” she roared towards the inside, unable to tolerate Julianna. Or maybe she was unable to tolerate herself behaving like that.

Two well-built women emerged from inside.

“Get her away. Quickly. She’s crazy!” she screamed uncontrollably. In her eyes now, Julianna was crazy, a mad person she did not recognize.

“Mom...” A sound of thunder drowned whatever Julianna was saying. Evelyn escaped into the Benjamin family apartment as though she was running away from something. The door closed with a loud bang.

Julianna was thrown out the gate. They had hurt her left arm. Her right hand was reaching out, trying to hold onto something. It was the same as four years ago. She went looking for her own mother, and what she received were her heartlessness and cruelty.

The rain fell like string-less beads, beating down on her body and face. The sky became even gloomier.

“Why are you so ruthless? She is your granddaughter. I had begged you, so why do you remain unmoved? Why haven’t you treated me like your daughter since I was young?

“So much for being a mother. This is motherhood. Hahaha... this is a mother!”

She struggled to get up and stared coldly at the extravagant apartment. “You said you didn’t want a person like me as your daughter. Do you know? I don’t want someone like you as my mother, either. Ha...” she laughed as her tears merged with the rain. “You hate me. I hated you, too.”

The rain kept pouring. Julianna crawled up from the ground and wiped the rain off her face. She did not know if her eyes were misty from the rain or her tears.

She stood outside the gate of the Benjamin family apartment, under the curtains of rain. However, no one came out again, just like four years ago. Yeah

In reality, she wanted to know if she was really dead. Would she shed a tear for her? Would she feel sad?

Nevertheless, she turned and walked further away from this place with her hand over her left arm. She can’t die yet. She still had to save her daughter.

If the Benjamin family was unwilling, she would go and beg that person, regardless of how he would torture her.

Diego was Raya’s biological father. He would save her even if he hated her. After all, Raya was his daughter.

She wiped her face; the posture of her back showed defeat.

Outside the Hanson villa...

She stood alone in the rain with her eyes locked onto the dark Hanson villa. Was anyone at home?

She looked at herself, her clothes soaked through. There were cakes of mud which had dried up. She put her hand on her face and wondered if anyone would recognize her.

The rain had drenched her. A chill pierced her body, and she hugged her hands over her shoulders, carefully folding herself. She waited by the entrance, not knowing when she would be able to see him.

A black sedan stopped, and Julianna stepped forward. Through the window, she could vaguely see that man who had once again made her heart ache. A man and a woman were tight in each other’s embrace, kissing. It looked so intimate and happy.

Julianna’s fingers fell weakly. Wasn’t this better? They were happy.

Did he know? That he had a three-year-old daughter who was alone in the hospital, unconscious.

The sedan left, and a woman remained. With an umbrella in her hand, she had the rain falling around her without a single drop on her.

The sedan vanished from her sight. Her scarlet lips were extremely lovely and beautiful, and she made her way towards the entrance.

“Please wait.”

A meek voice sounded. It was so soft that it was almost drowned by the sound of the rain.

This voice was so familiar that it made her uncomfortable.

She looked back and saw a woman who was in an extreme mess. That face, however, was one she would never forget in her wildest dreams. It was one that would give her nightmares.

Julianna, the one who had vanished for almost four years—presumably dead, had appeared before her. To Ruby, it had given her a sense of frightening caution.

“What are you doing here? We have nothing to do with you.” Ruby looked at the embarrassed woman in her eyes. Both of them stood between the difference between heaven and hell.

“I was thinking...” Julianna licked her dry lips. The rain caused her to squint. The woman before her eyes was as beautiful as she was in a state of mess. She looked more gorgeous than she had three years ago.

“Can I see Diego? Was that man earlier Diego?” There was a lot of anticipation and hope in her eyes. If she missed this opportunity, she did not know how she could find that man. It was a gamble she could not afford.