My heart skipped a beat when I saw my mother weeping. It was safe to assume that Steven must have been gravely injured.
As I dragged my way over to the ward, I saw Steven lying on the bed. He was completely drenched in blood with a plaster cast applied to both his legs.
There was no way I could stand seeing him in such a state no matter how much I was irked by his actions. After all, at the end of the day, he was my only sibling.
I strode toward his bedside, staring at him, and noticing that he was bruised all over, especially his face. Although my parents hadn’t sustained any serious injury, they weren’t exactly fine.
What the heck is wrong with that brutal bunch? They didn’t pull their punches at all! How dare they beat Steven up to a pulp? Aren’t they afraid of being arrested?
“M-Mom…”
Overwhelmed by emotions, I was unable to finish my sentence.
Torrents of grief streamed down my cheeks. I approached my mother and looked at her with my face scrunched up in guilt.
Although it was Steven’s fault for getting himself involved, I felt bad as I wasn’t of much help. If only I was capable enough to turn the tables around, Steven wouldn’t have ended up heavily injured.
When she heard me, she stopped weeping and glared at me in the eyes. A few seconds later, she stood up and marched over in my direction.
“Mom, I’m so sorry—”
express my utmost apology, yet I wasn’t even given a chance to finish my sentence. She slapped me in the
hell out of my sight
me with a pair of teary eyes and bellowed
widened in disbelief. I had a
my mother’s scrunched-up face, my eyes started brimming with tears. The emotions I had been holding back almost came
mom. She tried her best
expressed my apology once again,
out of my sight immediately! You’re not
my apology at all. Instead, she dragged me out of the ward with all her might, indicating she deemed me
that? I’ll always be your daughter! How can you chase
I wasn’t the one at fault! I can’t believe she’s chasing me away! Has she never thought of my
of much help, stop considering yourself a member of
evident that she held a grudge against me for not being able to resolve the issue on the family’s behalf. In another
I’m the one at fault for the family’s current situation? Does she think I’m
I made it clear? I don’t have the required sum! Over the years, I have given you everything! I don’t even have
to hold me accountable for the
make more than
she had already decided that I was the one responsible for the misery that had befallen
her staring at me with contempt. I wondered if she would react the same if I was
of the family, yet an accident was all it took to nullify
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