Chapter 243 – Complete Abandonment
Shireen Miller hadn’t been working at the nightclub for long when Mrs. Selena came to see her.
She didn’t expect that the child she held in her heart and loved to grow up would be reduced to serving tea and water to others, and accepting countless unpleasant flirtations and teasing, so she burst into tears on the spot.
Mrs. Selena’s tears made Shireen Miller’s numb heart sting a little, she couldn’t bear to let her mom see herself like this again and pulled her to the back door.
“Mom, this isn’t a clean place, you shouldn’t come here anymore, it’s dangerous.”
“But I miss you.” Mrs. Selena wiped tears from her eyes, she hadn’t known how long she’d been crying at home, and not a day went by that her eyes weren’t red.
Shireen Miller followed suit, her nose reddening, “I can’t go back anymore, Mom.”
Mrs. Selena knew it too, but she wasn’t willing and couldn’t watch her daughter sink, she pulled out a stack of thick envelopes from her bag and handed them to Shireen Miller.
“This is thirty thousand dollars, you can use it first, I’ll go back and think of a way to get your dad to take you home.”
“Mom …,” Shireen Miller sobbed, at the same time she also realized that the only one who really loved her was her mother, and it would be good if others didn’t fall on their sword.
Mrs. Selena was still dreaming that Albert would offer help.
She came back from the nightclub, before she went upstairs to wash her face and change her clothes, she was called by Albert who was sitting in the hall drinking tea, “Where did you go so late?”
“I …” Mrs. Selena didn’t dare to say, Albert had already got up and walked to her side, the cheesy scent of the nightclub still wafting from her.
Albert understood at once, “Did you go to Shireen Miller?”
Since it was all broken up, Mrs. Selena didn’t hide it anymore, “Yes, I did go to see her.”
“Didn’t I tell you to leave her alone, the Miller family doesn’t have this daughter anymore.”
How could he say something so cruel?
Mrs. Selena was angry and kept wiping her tears, she questioned Albert, “She is our daughter after all, how can you be so cruel?”
“You don’t even look at what she did?”
“Then at least give her some help, do you know what kind of life she’s living now? She–”
Mrs. Selena’s words came to a screeching halt as Albert pushed her, unable to bear the thought of her whispering in Shireen Miller’s ear any longer.Material © NôvelDrama.Org.
It was only because the maid was holding her back that Mrs. Selena did not fall.
She looked at Albert incredulously, her face full of tears, her mouth open and her eyes wide with shock.
It was unbelievable that he was now treating his wife in the same way.
Albert tilted his chin up and didn’t even look at her as he told her clearly, “Don’t mention Shireen Miller in front of me, and don’t think I’m going to offer her any help, the Miller family doesn’t have that person, I don’t have that daughter.”
“But you know she is now–” said Mrs. Selena, still undeterred.
“You mention her to me again, simply get out of THE Miller family with her.” Albert said, and walked back again, sitting down and sipping his tea slowly, as if what he had just said was an everyday greeting and he didn’t care.
The sandalwood scent made Mrs. Selena’s head spin, she hadn’t realized that Albert was going to put words in her mouth.
“You mean you want to divorce me?”
Albert raised his eyes, his eagle eyes unruffled, “As long as you don’t mention Shireen Miller, this life will still be livable.”
Mrs. Selena heard what he meant, and for a moment she could not bear the blow, and holding her head she fainted.
When she awoke, the maid was lighting the incense burner, and Mrs. Selena called to her feebly, “Don’t light it; it smokes my head.”
“Yes.”
“What time is it?”
“You’ve been sleeping all day, and you’re just about to have lunch now.”
“What about him?” She was annoyed at the mention of his name.
“President Miller went out early, he told you to get plenty of rest and not to think about anything.”
Mrs. Selena slowed down for the moment, thinking how she felt that there was something in her husband’s words last night.
A woman’s intuition does not follow with age, and Mrs. Selena could detect Albert’s smug smile as he spoke, and despite his efforts to conceal it, it could not escape her gaze.
She had always thought that Shireen Miller, being the only child of the Miller family, would inherit the family business in the future, and that Albert could not be so cruel.
Now the situation is different from what she thought, could it be, what she thought at the beginning was wrong?
Mrs. Selena secretly asked a private detective to check Albert’s relationship with other people for her, whether there are people other than family members who are particularly close to him.
As expected, Albert has an illegitimate child outside the family.
That’s why he’s not afraid of Shireen Miller becoming a dog or a street rat.
Mrs. Selena is heartbroken and rushes to the nightclub to find Shireen Miller.
Shireen Miller doesn’t know the situation yet and is still a little embarrassed, but luckily the owner doesn’t give her a hard time and lets her out.
The back door – the damp alleyway.
“Mom, didn’t I tell you? You don’t come to where I work, if you do, you go to my apartment.”
Mrs. Selena was about to shed another tear at the sight of her, but this time for herself, “Your father turns out to have had someone else on the outside for a long time, and an illegitimate child that he’s been grooming for this sin.”
Shireen Miller was equally shocked, “What? Mom, is this true?”
“It’s true, the detectives have given me all the evidence, and I’ve gone and gotten a paternity test, he really does have a real son out there.” Mrs. Selena cried and hugged Shireen Miller.
“Your father doesn’t care about you anymore either, what can we mother and daughter do in the future?”
Seeing her mother crying so desperately, Shireen Miller’s heart was also like a knife.
If it wasn’t for Moore Howard leaking the photos to the media, would she be in such a state now?
There was nothing she could do to catch Moore Howard, and the man would be scurrying around the country by now, hiding from capture.
Shireen Miller wasn’t willing to go down in flames like this, and she thought of the old her, whether she was high and mighty or willful, someone would have succumbed to her.
Designer clothes, shoes, and bags were so plentiful that she needed a separate single room, and when she asked for a car, her father bought her a Mercedes.
Every time she attends a party, there are rich kids clamoring to talk to her, and whether she will respond or not depends on whether she is in the mood or not.
Private pools, lavish parties, crazy shopping …
Now, she lives in a one-room apartment, and even has to save the money to buy a washing machine. Every day, she washes her clothes by hand, and her beautiful, slender and white hands become rough and wrinkled.
Her clothes were only cheap, the rough material of her uniform rubbed against her skin, and she still had a few pairs of shoes, but compared to the past, it was a heaven and a hell.
Her life was gone.
She couldn’t just let it go. Even if she was at fault, weren’t Blanche Capra and York Charlie to blame? It wasn’t fair that after all the effort she’d put into pursuing York Charlie, Blanche Capra ended up taking Mrs. Charlie’s spot!
“Mom, if it wasn’t for Blanche Capra, I would have been York Charlie’s wife by now, my life would have been better, a hundred times better, how could I have ended up in this situation?”
Mrs. Selena agreed with her, “I think that Blanche Capra is a vixen reincarnated.”
“Mom, I have a favor to ask you, I need to get back at Blanche Capra, I can’t just let it go.” Shireen Miller suddenly grabbed Mrs. Selena by the shoulders as her anger that had been extinguished flared up again.
She was going to make Blanche Capra go to hell with her!
Of course Mrs. Selena was willing, she would have let her kill Blanche Capra for the sake of her daughter, however Shireen Miller only told her to ask Blanche Capra out.
“I want to talk to her in person.”