I don't care

CHAPTER 104

SEBASTIAN’S POV

For a moment, I lost myself. I forgot how to think and react. I lifted my head from the letter, blinking severally in confusion, scoffing in disbelief as I tried to wrap my head around what I just read.

That was Catherine’s mum, Regina Hardwell, the woman who once saw and treated me as a son threatening and wishing me bad. It hurts. It hurts really bad. My heart bled in my chest. How quickly people can turn against you especially when you’re the innocent one?

Now I understand the saying, “An apple never falls far from the tree.” It wouldn’t surprise me if Catherine got her rude and mean behaviour from her mother. I wish I had known that before I married Catherine and got to know her family.

I closed the letter and put it back in the envelope, trying not to fall apart, trying to get myself back together.

Should I be scared? No. Empty vessels make the loudest noise. Those were empty threats. They meant nothing. She wouldn’t dare touch even a strand of my hai