Chapter 282: Mask Removed
Annalise’s knees buckled, but her hands reached out, gasping and clawing at Catherine’s smug visage. An animalistic scream tore through her throat, and in that moment, she was more beast than human.
She wanted to rip apart Catherine from limb to limb!
It turned out that everything that she knew was a lie. All the love and care that she showered on Emmeline, a girl that she thought was her own daughter... turned out to be for naught.
Her best friend, the woman she thought would always have her back, was responsible for killing her own daughter. Her husband, the man who swore under oath to protect and cherish her, was now staring at her as though she was nothing but a gnat under his shoe.
What was the point of living? Annalise couldn’t help but despair. Her heart thumped painfully in her chest before a sharp pain ricocheted through her body, causing her already frail legs to crumble.
She fell to a collapsed heap on the floor.
Catherine leaned over mockingly. "Oh Annalise, there’s no need for such theatrics, you know acting isn’t your strong suit."
Next to her, Benjamin Hawthorne was similarly cavalier about her prone figure. There was a brief moment of worry in his eyes, but then Catherine held his hand, and he got his priorities back in order.
Besides, Catherine was right. Annalise had a tendency to be overdramatic. His life wasn’t so smooth sailing that she would drop dead right in front of him!
"Mom, what the fuck is wrong with you?!" Aiden exclaimed, appalled at his mother’s nonchalance towards Annalise’s welfare.
Hell, even if this person was her most hated enemy, shouldn’t she help― if not for her sake, then for Emmeline’s? In Emmeline’s mind, this person was still her actual mother!