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Incompetent mother

Author: DELEPU
last update Last Updated: 2026-02-28 21:27:53

At nine in the morning, Aliana was called to come out of her room.

A maid Alina didn't recognize knocked on the door, waited for the guard to unlock it, then delivered the message with eyes that wouldn't meet hers.

"Mrs. Margaret requests your presence in the main hall. Immediately."

"For what?"

"She didn't say, Ma'am."

Alina stood. Smoothed her wrinkled clothes. She hadn't changed since yesterday. Hadn't slept. Had spent the night replaying Junior's words on an endless loop.

'I don't like her,
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