Chapter 56

When it got late, Laís, I didn't want to stay here at home, and made up an excuse that didn't convince me very much, but I was pregnant, I didn't want to contradict. I knew she wanted to leave me alone with Brian, but if it was up to my mother, that wasn't going to happen at all.

As much as she had mainly changed her attitudes, she still wanted to control my life and even who I chose to relate to. After everyone left, it was just me and Brian, in addition to my mother and stepfather.

“Brian, isn't it time for you to leave?—Mom, for God's sake, why is this so bad he's family and he can stay here without any problems!"

“Honey, let’s go to bed and leave the children alone, they are too old to be watched.”

(Said Filipe Brian's father)

“Literally your mother crosses the line, she's still minding her own business! — Brian, call her not my mother and I thought she had changed, but she didn't.”

“Ana, I know I made a lot of mistakes with you and today I see that I was a