Pampered by my Billionaire CEO Husband
Chapter 107: Why, mum?

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: Why, mum?

They whipped their heads around in an instant.

Anger flashed past his eyes in a split second and he marched towards them with his fists clenched tightly beside him, closing the distance in just a few large strides.

He narrowed his eyes at Evelyn this time as their eyes met. "I heard about what you did. You have some nerve showing up here," he spat the words out like they were poison in his mouth. "Get out of here," he demanded as his features hardened.

Evelyn remained calm as she kept her eyes on him the entire time. "We are just here to check on her and pay her a visit. Is that wrong of me to do so?" She questioned, smugness radiating off every inch of her body as though she hadn’t done anything wrong.

"Did you think that you coming here to pay her a visit would resolve this matter and she would forgive you?" He sneered, his voice laced with contempt and disdain for the two women standing before his eyes. His gaze flickered over, glancing down at the table to see the cake box sitting there. A snicker escaped from his lips as realisation dawned upon him. "Peanut cake? You came to give her something that she is deadly allergic to?!"

Impulse and rage clouded his judgement as he grabbed the box of cake off the table and chucked it across the room without a single warning. It landed at the corner with a loud thud that echoed in the room, startling them.

He stepped even closer this time, leaning forward, his face merely a few inches away from hers.

"Even if Aurelia did forgive you, I wouldn’t let you off the hook that easily," he warned through gritted teeth, his deep voice heavy with a threat as his face bored a serious expression.

I watched as my mother stepped forward to grab Evelyn by her shoulders, pulling her back to create a distance between them. With a frown etched between her brows, her gaze matched Xavier’s. "Have you lost your mind?! How could you threaten a woman like this? After all, the two of you were once in love. Aren’t you afraid of retribution and karma?!" She snarled with a disdainful scorn as her eyes burned with a fiery blaze.

A low chuckle emerged from his throat this time as he kept his gaze steady. "Afraid of retribution and karma?" He repeated, tossing her words right back at her as he arched an eyebrow. "That’s reserved for people like you two," he retorted.

My mother’s eyes widened with rage as anger spread through her body like a wildfire she couldn’t seem to tame. "You better watch your mouth, young man!" She shrieked, her high-pitched voice piercing through the tension that was already brewing in the air between us. "Don’t go too far," she warned.

Evelyn reached out to hold onto my mother’s arm, her fingers wrapping around her forearm as she turned to face her and they locked eyes. She shook her head lightly. "Auntie Jennifer, it’s alright," she said with a pitiful look that was stretched across her face. "What I did was unforgivable and I totally understand why Aurelia and Xavier are mad at me, they have every right to be angry," she muttered under her breath and lowered her head, seemingly out of guilt and shame.

But I could see right through her act and I wasn’t buying it, but my mother as usual, she fell for it in an instant. Seeing how vulnerable and pitiful Evelyn appeared to be in front of her eyes, her gaze softened almost immediately and she gradually calmed down.

She held onto Evelyn’s hands and looked into her eyes. "Don’t say that. What right do they have to be mad at you, you did nothing wrong but state the truth only. You already came down to see her too, shouldn’t that be more than enough already?"

Upon hearing my mother’s words, I felt my heart sink a little and I lowered my head, letting out a cold chuckle. My lips curled upwards into a bitter smile knowing how little I meant to my mother. I lifted my chin to look up and stare at my mother.

Silence enveloped us for a brief moment and Xavier was about to say something but I beat him to it this time.

"Nothing she says or does will ever be enough," I snapped as my heart raced in my chest and anger was pulsing through every single vein inside of my body. They finally turned around to face me this time. "Evelyn mocked me for losing my child, your grandchild! He’s your grandchild!" I screamed this time, reminding her as my voice was cracking towards the end of the sentence.

"And you think that somehow that is okay, just because she was just telling the truth?" I questioned, the words left a sour taste in my mouth. "So could I just tell her and everyone that she will never make it as an artist if her father isn’t rich and used his money to bribe every fucking person he possibly can so that her career would take off?"

A look of anger masked my mother’s expression in the next second before my name left her lips. "Aurelia! You are being ridiculous!"

"What? I was just telling the truth, right? So it’s okay for me to say that," I retorted with wide eyes, giving her a taste of her own medicine.

"You... you..." she stammered as she was rendered speechless and was struggling to find the right words to say. "How could you–"

I cut her off before she could even finish her sentence.

"I don’t understand why you are constantly coddling her and throwing me under the fucking bus," I said this time as I let out a breath.

"I have never coddled her or threw you under the bus," she insisted even though the evidence was undeniably right in front of her face.

"Why, mum?" I questioned once again. "Is it because she is rich and powerful? Or is it because I’m not actually your daughter, but she is?"

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