Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

"Your husband is completely devoted to you. Your best days are still ahead. As for your mother... let her live with the regret."

Dalton had never encountered a mother like Mrs. Newman. There were many biased mothers in the world, but few as cruel and vicious as her.

"She regrets it so much that her intestines must be turning green," Camryn said with a bitter laugh. "But she doesn't regret hurting me. She regrets giving birth to me. She regrets not aborting me. She regrets not strangling me to death the moment I was born. "She called me her nemesis, said I existed just to ruin her. She claimed a fortuneteller told her, when she was pregnant with me, that I would bring disaster to my parents. That if she didn't kill me, I would eventually destroy her.

"But those were just excuses. If she hadn't killed my father, if she hadn't indulged Carrie's mistakes, and if she hadn't gone out of her way to hurt others, how could she have ended up in my hands?

"Sometimes I visit her and my stepfather in prison. They don't want to see me, but I go anyway. I want them to see how well I'm living now. The son-in-law she chose is still her sonin-law-but not for her 'precious' daughter. He married me, the daughter she hated the

most.

properties she and my uncle stole from my father are back in my hands. And I must

seeing how much they hate me. Watching them seethe and suffer it makes me happy." Camryn laughed at herself, her voice tinged with bitterness. "Brother Dal, maybe I'm not a good person either. Maybe I'm just as bad. Because I enjoy seeing my mother hate me and knowing there's nothing she can do about it." Dalton shook his head. "Camryn, you're not a bad person. You're human. It's not your fault- it's hers and your stepfather's. Anyone in your

had been by his sister's side as she grew up, and he

Camryn could never

mother gave her life and that alone was reason enough

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