Chapter 107: Why, mum?
They whipped their heads around in an instant.
Anger flashed past his eyes in a split second and he marched towards them with his fists clenched tightly beside him, closing the distance in just a few large strides.
He narrowed his eyes at Evelyn this time as their eyes met. "I heard about what you did. You have some nerve showing up here," he spat the words out like they were poison in his mouth. "Get out of here," he demanded as his features hardened.
Evelyn remained calm as she kept her eyes on him the entire time. "We are just here to check on her and pay her a visit. Is that wrong of me to do so?" She questioned, smugness radiating off every inch of her body as though she hadn’t done anything wrong.
"Did you think that you coming here to pay her a visit would resolve this matter and she would forgive you?" He sneered, his voice laced with contempt and disdain for the two women standing before his eyes. His gaze flickered over, glancing down at the table to see the cake box sitting there. A snicker escaped from his lips as realisation dawned upon him. "Peanut cake? You came to give her something that she is deadly allergic to?!"
Impulse and rage clouded his judgement as he grabbed the box of cake off the table and chucked it across the room without a single warning. It landed at the corner with a loud thud that echoed in the room, startling them.
He stepped even closer this time, leaning forward, his face merely a few inches away from hers.
"Even if Aurelia did forgive you, I wouldn’t let you off the hook that easily," he warned through gritted teeth, his deep voice heavy with a threat as his face bored a serious expression.
I watched as my mother stepped forward to grab Evelyn by her shoulders, pulling her back to create a distance between them. With a frown etched between her brows, her gaze matched Xavier’s. "Have you lost your mind?! How could you threaten a woman like this? After all, the two of you were once in love. Aren’t you afraid of retribution and karma?!" She snarled with a disdainful scorn as her eyes burned with a fiery blaze.
A low chuckle emerged from his throat this time as he kept his gaze steady. "Afraid of retribution and karma?" He repeated, tossing her words right back at her as he arched an eyebrow. "That’s reserved for people like you two," he retorted.
My mother’s eyes widened with rage as anger spread through her body like a wildfire she couldn’t seem to tame. "You better watch your mouth, young man!" She shrieked, her high-pitched voice piercing through the tension that was already brewing in the air between us. "Don’t go too far," she warned.
Evelyn reached out to hold onto my mother’s arm, her fingers wrapping around her forearm as she turned to face her and they locked eyes. She shook her head lightly. "Auntie Jennifer, it’s alright," she said with a pitiful look that was stretched across her face. "What I did was unforgivable and I totally understand why Aurelia and Xavier are mad at me, they have every right to be angry," she muttered under her breath and lowered her head, seemingly out of guilt and shame.