Chapter 35 – The Family Dinner 2
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“Why can’t you act like Mila? Just for once, Ada. Behave like her, just for once.”
The audacity! Those words stabbed me a thousand times before digging through my flesh. I felt like my father gained a different sense of shamelessness for saying that name.
My pitiful mother, Mila, should never be used like that.
The ire that I was trying to control lost its direction, finally making its way to the instigator of all the misfortunate events in my life. I have momentarily forgotten the issue we have at hand.
Since my father was this desperate to receive my hatred, then I was left with no choice but to give it all to him. A filial daughter until the end.
“Like my mother? Do you want me to turn like her and die a dog’s death?”
“You shut your mouth
