Chapter-73*Lost All My Family. *

Zelene Sallow:

"Tell me, are you gonna punish your own mother?" she yelled when I didn't answer her right away.

"Just give me one good reason why I shouldn't," I asked, and her face went blank for a moment. She was really expecting me to say something comforting to her.

"I'm your mother, Zelene. I understand you're mad at me right now. But you can't deny or reject the truth that I'm your mother. You've already lost your sister and your adoptive mother. Are you sure you wanna lose your birth mother too?" The way her eyes filled with tears puzzled me. She genuinely seemed to lack the understanding that she's never been a mother to me and that the reason I lost my sister was because of her.

"My mother? Since when did you start calling yourself my mother?" I scoffed as I made blunt eye contact with her. The fact that she was trying to manipulate me after revealing her true self to me made me wonder if she thought everybody else was foolish in this world.

"Whatever I was doing, I was doing