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Chapter 4

Penulis: Tyrant’s Flower
In the days that followed, Austin never showed up again.

Tawny, however, came by several times.

With no outsiders present, she completely dropped the act.

She asked smugly, “Briar, how does it feel to be the loser groveling at my feet?”

I ignore her provocations. I dropped to my knees and begged her. “I’m letting you have Austin and his whole family. I’m not fighting you for any of it.

“Just please let me out of here. Let me see my mom one last time.”

By then, I no longer cared about dignity or pride. I just wanted to help my mother keep the last shred of dignity she had before she died.

Tawny snorted coldly. She took out a mirror and held it in front of my face.

“Here. Take a good look at yourself. What makes you think you can compete with me with a face like yours?

“If Austin even laid eyes on you, he’d probably puke from the sight of you.”

I looked up and saw a frantic and disheveled woman in the mirror. I smiled bitterly.

Tawny grew even more pleased with herself. She leaned down and brought her face close to mine.

“Do you want to know the real reason that old hag died?”

She then opened her phone and pulled up the chat log with my mother.

She had sent photos of me lying on the abortion operating table and the bloody fetus inside the box.

Below the photos, she texted: Do you want to know where your surgery money came from? Look closely. Your daughter paid for it with her marriage to Austin and the life of the grandson you never got to meet.

My blood ran cold as I recalled my conversation with the doctor.

“My mother was fine when I left. How could she just get so worked up all of a sudden?”

“I’m not too sure. It seemed like she got a text before passing out.”

I charged forward, ready to fight Tawny to the death.

“You killed my mom. I’m going to make you pay!”

Before I could even touch her, she had already fallen to the ground.

She clutched her belly with both hands and wailed in pain.

“The baby. Austin, please save the baby!”

Before I knew it, Austin emerged at the door. He rushed forward, grabbed the back of my collar, and flung me to the floor.

“Briar, how could you be so evil? You’d even go after the baby inside Tawny’s belly!”

He then quickly scooped Tawny swiftly up from the floor and comforted her, “Tawny, hang in there. Don't be afraid.

“I’ll do anything to save our child, no matter how much it costs!”

Behind him, I collapsed miserably into a pool of my own blood. My heart shattered into pieces.

I spent a month locked up.

While the maids were busy setting up the welcome ceremony for the new young mistress, I took my luggage and my phone, and slipped out.

By the time I got to the hospital, I was completely out of breath. I demanded to see my mother.

I was told that a lady named Ms. Sully had taken my mother’s remains.

It was Tawny!

I angrily went to the hotel to confront her.

“Where did you take my mother? Tell me!”

Tawny, with her delicate makeup and freshly done nails, pointed to a dog bowl nearby.

“There. It’s all right there.”

After a brief moment of shock, I lunged at the dog and fought it like crazy to get the last of my mother’s ashes out of its mouth.

Covered in bruises, I clutched the last remaining traces of my mother left in this world. I looked at the huge wedding portrait of Austin and Tawny in the hall behind me.

I smiled with utter bitterness.

I took off the only pair of diamond earrings I was wearing, called over a staff member, and quietly told them something.

Soon, the wedding ceremony began. Tawny wore a white veil. Austin took her arm, and they slowly walked down the aisle.

Suddenly, the slideshows of their loving moment on the large screen switched. It abruptly changed to a clip of my conversation with Tawny before the wedding. Her voice echoed throughout the entire banquet hall.

“Your baby and your mother are both dead because of me. Now, your husband is mine, too.

“Briar, you are a total loser.”

Austin’s smile froze instantly. At the same time, his phone received my farewell text sent from the airport.

[Goodbye, Austin.]

May we never see each other again.

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