Marcia swept back her hair, revealing a faint slap mark on her face.

Trembling, she disclosed, “I found records of him buying a house for that woman.

She’s about your age, young enough to be his daughter.

They even have a son who’s already in elementary school.

He’s hidden this from me for years.

He’s a monster!”

She looked earnestly at Elissa and added, “No wonder he’s been so heartless to you.

He plans to leave his fortune to his lover’s son! He’s so cruel.”

Elissa was speechless, grappling with shame for having known about her father’s affair but not sharing it sooner with her mother.

Marcia suddenly laughed bitterly.

you? Raphael even arranged the

why your father never

inevitable that I would

whispered an apology, “I’m

responded sternly, “You’re

father has done something like this,

somehow be happy? He doesn’t care for our

could drive you away, one day, he might turn

given his character, she couldn’t help but agree that her

with Raphael the possibility of Marcia

about whether Marcia could adjust; after all, coming from wealth, Marcia had never lived in such a

suggested, “Stay here

can discuss it more when

I think he’ll agree.”

surroundings, feeling

both Elissa and

submissive past to Yousef, and the fact that she had even abandoned her daughter under his influence only for him to cheat on her, filled her with

envision adapting to such a simple life and insisted on

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