Chapter 41: What are you doing here?
My mother questioned, pulling out her phone from her pocket to flash me the news report from yesterday where Evelyn was taken away and arrested by the cops.
"So what?" I retorted fiercely, a cold look plastered across my face. "She was just getting what she deserved for framing me!"
"Have you lost your mind, Aurelia Holt?!" She screamed, her voice trembling with anger, cracking towards the end of the sentence. "How could you do that Evelyn? She’s just a kid, she doesn’t know what she is doing!" She yelled, defending her, as usual. I wasn’t even surprised to be honest.
"A kid?" I repeated, an incredulous look etched onto my face as I looked at my mother. "She’s 27! We are the same age!" I reminded her curtly, not holding back on my words.
"She’s still young and here you are trying to ruin her future with your nonsense! Are you happy now?" She questioned, her voice carrying a slight edge to it as anger pulsed through every single veins inside her body. "This will forever taint her records and make her life difficult!"
"Why do you care?! Huh? Why are you so concerned about her future?" I questioned fiercely. "Do you not care about mine? What about me? I’m your daughter! And Evelyn was the one who tried to put the blame on me, accusing me of framing her for bribery. Did you forget that?" I asked, the words leaving a sour taste in my mouth as Xavier put his arm around me, giving me a light squeeze on my shoulder to comfort me and calm me down.
There was a short pause as silence enveloped us. The air continued to crackle with unspoken tension as we stared at one another for what seemed like an eternity.
"I...I was just..." she stuttered, as if there was a lump stuck in her throat and she couldn’t get the words out. "I was just afraid of what this could mean for me. Do you know how awkward it would be with me with the Lloyd family now? What if they fired me? I would have lost my job because of how impulsive you are! And you know you can never win these people right? So why did you start this?" She quickly said, but they all just sounded like excuses to me as she tried to avert my questions by changing the subject.
I let out a loud scoff as I rolled my eyes. "Me, me, me. Everything is about you! Do you even care about me? I don’t think you do, actually. You seem to care more about Evelyn for whatever reason."
She sucked in a deep breath.
"How could you say that I don’t care about you, Aurelia Holt? I’m your mother, of course I care about you, you better take back your words," she warned, her voice heavy with a threat as she glared at me, her eyes swirling with rage and anger.