Chapter 51: Apologise!
I was still on the ground as my gaze glanced down to look at the shattered phone. I couldn’t hold back the cold chuckle that emerged from my throat as I looked up at them with an incredulous look plastered across my face.
"Repay your kindness?" I echoed after him. "Exactly what kindness are you referring to? I would like to know," I snapped back, my voice carrying a sharp edge to it, which only earned me a death glare from my mother who didn’t seem to give a fuck about me.
Her distant eyes flickered down to look at me, her face void of any concern or worry for me. I was certain that she still haboured hatred and anger for me ever since the day she stormed over to Xavier’s house to lash out on me for ’ruining Evelyn’s future’ because I exposed the truth about her being involved in bribing the judges at the competition.
"Aurelia Holt, that’s enough!" Her shrill voice pierced through the air as she glared at me with disdain clearly visible on her face, not a single ounce of warmth was detected in her voice. "Have you not done enough yet?" She yelled loudly as a subtle smirk appeared on Evelyn’s face while she watched quietly with satisfaction.
I gritted my teeth, clenching my fists tightly by my side as I pulled myself up from the ground and stepped forward, closing the gap between us and we are now standing face to face with one another.
"What exactly have I done, Mrs Holt?" I spat out of spite, refusing to call her mother as the memory of the day popped back into my mind. She doesn’t think of me as her daughter anyway.
Within the next second, I watched as her face turned red with anger and her eyes burned with a fiery blaze from within.
"You already put my job at risk once and you are going to do it again? The Lloyd’s were kind enough to allow me to stay, why couldn’t you be more sensible like Evelyn?! Why did you have to go and ruin everything over something so minor!" The words rolled off the tip of her tongue smoothly, it felt almost as if she had always wanted to say those very words and now she finally had the chance to do so. I didn’t understand what was so good about this job anyway.
Evelyn left her father’s side to rush over to my mother’s side, her brows knitted together with concern as she placed her hand on her arm as if to comfort her and calm her down.