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Chapter 20
Divine’s POV
I have been out of my mind for the past few months, it’s hard to believe when the one person you trusted the most with your life becomes the same person to cause you misery, my mother destroyed me, she made me believe that the love of my life is nothing but an evil scheming woman when she was and still is the devil herself and her chosen daughter-in-law.
She made me doubt my judgment and hurt the woman I ever loved and that genuinely loved me for who I am not what I have, thinking of the things I have made her go through my heartaches, I should have been more careful and used my head instead I felt betrayed and used by her, I don’t know how she is going to react towards me but I sure damn know that she despises me and I don’t blame her for that, all I want is to rewrite my error and rectify my mother’s evil ways, I will stop at nothing to have her back.
My thoughts drifted to our happy days where Mercy and I were genuinely happy regar
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