All Chapters of My Second Chance Mate Is My Ex Alpha’s Nemesis : Chapter 101 - Chapter 104

Liena POV Her words replayed in my head the whole ride back to the car. We just pray the moon goddess blesses her with a good man soon. Someone who can take care of her, so she doesn't have to work herself into the ground like this. I didn't know how to explain it to her. I didn't know how to tell a sweet old woman who had just fed me dinner that her daughter was not a hardworking secretary sending money home. Her daughter was the reason I had been dragged into a van with a bag over my head and driven three hours outside the city to kidnap me. Her daughter had paid good money to have me disappeared, just long enough so she can slide back into Kael's life and play house with him and Ethan, the perfect little family she must have imagined in her head. The wife. The husband. The son. No me standing in the middle of it. Thinking about it while sitting in that warm dining room, eating food that woman had made with her own hands, made something twist low in my stomach. These people had

Liena POV The words hit Helena unexpectedly. Ethan’s small voice had been soft, almost careless, but the way he spoke about me, calling me the one who smelled like home, the one whose arms felt safer than anything else, broke something deep inside her. Her face went pale and her hands tightened. She wasn’t just upset. She was breaking and hurt. Right there in front of us, the perfect mask she always wore started to slip, and I could almost scent the fear and rage mixing in the air. But Helena forced a shaky laugh that sounded more like a choke and spun toward Ethan, her smile too wide, too soft towards her boy. “Baby, don’t say things like that. Never say that again, okay? You’re just a little boy. You don’t know what you’re talking about.” Her voice stayed light, the way adults talk when they’re trying to cover something ugly. She knelt down and brushed his hair back, but her fingers trembled. “I’m your mom. I’ve always been here. That other talk is just silly kid stuff. Forget