Bab 224: Chapter 224

"But what can I do to make it right? And what would happen if I told Mackie about the truth?" Chloe asked herself.

She went silent after that and realized that she didn't even want to see the disappointment in her daughter's face, let alone anger, because she had been lied to— and betrayed the whole time. 

Chloe bit her lower lip as she got nervous, scared that Mackie might call her a liar and hate her when the cat was out of the bag. 

"No, I don't want my daughter to hate me…." Chloe said. "J—Just a little more, please wait until the divorce goes through, and she is a little bit older, so she's old enough to understand the problem with her father…."

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Vernon finally finished work at 10. Diamond already went home three hours ago. He was exhausted, of course, and his stomach was rumbling as he hadn't eaten anything for dinner. 

"Wonder what she made for me for dinner," Vernon murmured as he took the elevator to the basement.