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“So … you just thought you’d co her eyes atso stupid” She flicks her finger against my forehead

It stings, but I won’t let that show “I came here to save Marcello”

She snorts “You love him so much you just can’t stay away Why?” She cocks her head “What did thatauction?”

“Love Affection The feeling of being wanted”

“Everything I tried to give you as a mother …” she hisses

“You weren’t even there,” I retort

“Because of that fucking ritted teeth “Because he had the audacity to steal you away from me”

“He saved me from that fire,” I rebuke “I would’ve been dead without him”

“Well, I’m alive too now, aren’t I?”

That’s true She and Frank did make it out But at what cost?

“But your father … he’s not He can’t ever walk again because of what you did to him”

“He is notto him”

She slapshatred she feels for me

“You should’ve known better”

“I did what I had to do,” I quip

She doesn’t even look like the woman I remember “You let yourself be seduced by the devil By that ot him to knock you up too?”

She looks down at my belly and then back up at my eyes, which fill with tears

“You should’ve stayed where you were At least then you wouldn’t have gotten in my way”

Even though I hate her, her words hurt me “I didn’t ask for any of the shit that happened to ht Hard And when I found out you were part of the Mafia That you were trying to kill the only ht for me? I can’t accept that”

A wicked smile forms on her lips “You can’t accept that? But you will accept a man who tried to kill your own damn mother?”

“You … have never been a mother to me,” I retort with an icy cold voice

It douses the fire in her eyes until there is nothing left but frigid darkness

“I was conteiveness and ain, but…” She turns her head and yells, “Guard!”

The door slams open, and in walks a burly man

“Take her”

My eyes widen as he approaches, and I get ready to fight One punch to the gut doesn’t even faze the guy as he picks