Chapter 502 Not A Good Reason To Abandon Your Child
“Alicia, there’s no need for you to be so nice to me. We’re nothing but strangers,” I stated coldly as I raised my head and looked into her eyes.
Immediately after I spoke, Alicia’s expression changed. A hurt look flashed across her eyes.
However, since she was married into a wealthy family, she was the most skilled at concealing her emotions.
“Anna, what’s wrong with you today? Why do you have such a bad temper? Did I do something wrong to make you upset? If there’s anything, you can tell me directly!”
Alicia sounded very gentle when she talked to me.
“Mrs. Campbell, I hope that we’ll never meet again and that there will be no changes to our relationship. If you’re visiting me to make yourself feel less guilty, I can tell you straight up that there’s no need for that!”
Till now, she still had not admitted outrightly what our relationship really was. She kept trying to test me sometimes, but I did not like how that felt.
I thought that my words had already conveyed all I wanted to say. She was a smart person, so there was no reason that she would not understand.
“What… What do you mean? Did you find out about something?”
Alicia stared at me in shock, her expression changing drastically.
“Don’t you know that your daughter came looking for me yesterday? She said that I’m your illegitimate child.” I explained calmly as I shot her a calm look.
Alicia’s face paled the moment she heard what I said. At the same time, a guilty look crept into her eyes.
“So, you’ve already found out. No wonder you’re acting so coldly toward me suddenly.”
Alicia stared at me sadly as her voice became filled with guilt.
In the past, I was someone who would give in very easily. If she had spoken to me like that when I was still my past self, I would definitely relent. However, I no longer wanted my emotions to be so easily manipulated by such matters.
“Mrs. Campbell, I already know your motive for looking for me. If you’re trying to compensate for me, I think that there’s no need for that. I’m no longer a child, so I don’t need the so-called ‘motherly love’.”
Before Alicia could speak, I expressed my stance clearly. I stared at her emotionlessly, not wanting to hear her nonsense about seeking forgiveness.
“Anna, I know that you must be feeling really upset now and that it’s hard to accept the truth since you’ve just learned about it. After all these years, I’ve been thinking about you almost every day. Even in my dreams, I yearned to have you back by my side.”
Alicia walked to me and gazed at me, her eyes filled with grief. I could tell that she was feeling extremely sad right now. “Mrs. Campbell, if you’re here to tell me all these today, you can leave now that you’re done speaking. I have a lot of work to do.” I said coldly, suppressing the hatred within me.
Since I was in the office, I did not want everyone in the company to know about this. Being an illegitimate child was not something to be proud of. Furthermore, I had been abandoned.
Actually, I was not really bothered by the fact that I was illegitimate—it was more about how she had abandoned me more than twenty years ago. If she had not done that, I would not have been so resistant toward her now.
“Anna, can you not speak to me in that tone? I’ve been searching for you for years before I could locate your whereabouts. It’s been so hard for me to meet you. I feel really sad now that you’re treating me like this.”
Alicia approached me and held my hand. Tears welled up in her eyes.
Her hand was very warm. My heart skipped a beat, but I still flung her hand away ruthlessly, not wanting to say anything else to her.
“Mrs. Campbell, I have told you that I’m working now. If you’re acting like this, I cannot focus on my work. Do you want me to ask the security guards to chase you out?”
My back was facing Alicia as tears were welling up in my eyes. Although my words were so ruthless, I would be lying if I said that I did not feel anything at all.
After knowing that she was my mother, my feelings toward her changed. It was not that I did not want to acknowledge her. However, whenever I recalled how she had abandoned me more than twenty years ago, I could not help but blame her.
I was an ordinary person too. I did not know why all these misfortunes happened to me. What have I done wrong? Why am I treated so mercilessly?
“Anna, I am your mother. Do you really want to treat me so ruthlessly? I know that I’ve let you down, but I really want to make up for my mistakes now. Can you please give me a chance?”
Alicia gazed at me, her eyes filled with a pleading look.
“A chance for you to make up for your mistakes? If you haven’t abandoned me, there’ll be no need for that! I’m already an adult. What’s the use of your compensation?”
I scoffed coldly, viewing her so-called ‘compensation’ with nothing but contempt. When I needed motherly love the most, she did not appear beside me. Now that I did not need it, she wanted to compensate me. Doesn’t she find herself ridiculous?
“I… I had no choice back then. As a single mother, there was no way I could keep you with me. You know the terrifying power of rumors, right? Back then, I could not even face anyone. I had no choice but to leave you at an orphanage.”
When Alicia spoke, she grimaced. I suddenly felt that my existence was nothing but a stain on her life. As she could not endure the weight of those rumors, she decided to abandon me at an orphanage.
Initially, I had a mother. However, her decision had made me an orphan.
“Do you think that it’s a good reason to abandon me? I’m a mother too now, but I’m different from you! If I were in your shoes, I will never abandon my child even if the entire world were to hurl insults at me!”
When I was separated from Amaury for a year, I experienced how agonizing and tormenting it felt. Hence, no matter what difficulties I faced, I was glad as long as Amaury could stay by my side.
In her case, she had abandoned her child when things were tough for her. No excuse was good enough for her to be forgiven. Everyone said that motherly love was the most selfless, yet she had abandoned me at an orphanage just because she could not withstand those gossip. How can she bear to do that?
As a mother, not only did she refuse to do her best to protect her child, but she had also abandoned me. After doing all that, does she really deserve to be forgiven?
