“Mr. Aguilera, just for money, you could even piss off your own mother to death.”
Iris looked at Nikolas with a mocking sneer, “You tell me, now that you’re kneeling in front of Grandma’s grave, do you think Grandma would be really mad?”
“And you too, Ms. Moreno.”
Her eyes fell on Gloria again, “Ever since you married into the Aguilera family, you never treated Grandma with respect and care like a mother, not even for a single day. All you ever thought about was how to get benefits from Grandma.”
“Once grandma stopped giving you or you all any benefits, you cursed her every day, pissed her off, called her names, and just wished she would die sooner.”
“No-”
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Gloria shook her head, her pale face showing her guilt and panic. “Ira, it wasn’t like that, it’s… it’s Marie, she… she never liked me as her daughter–in–law, that’s why I… I…”
“You shut up!”
Iris yelled and cut her off, “Grandma’s been dead for so lop and you’re still badmouthing her. Aren’t you afraid that when you get old, your son and daughter–in–law will treat you the same way?”
Gloria was almost fifty. She had never suffered before. Even when the Aguilera family went bankrupt and they ran away to another country,
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she still didn’t go through any real hardship and kept living a pampered rich lady’s life with people waiting on her.
So she was really well maintained, looked like she was in her thirties.
She was arrogant and weird all her life.
Now that Iris accused me like this, I couldn’t keep up the act anymore. Embarrassed, I gritted my teeth and said confidently, “Yeah, I wasn’t good to your grandma, but she’s not my real mom who gave birth to me and raised me. Why should I be good to her?”
“Actually, you–I carried you for ten months, almost lost my life giving birth to you, and worked so hard to raise you. And now this is how you treat your own mother?”
She even turned around and questioned me.
Iris laughed, “Yeah, my grandma didn’t give birth to you or raise you, but she did give birth to you and raise you, right, Mr. Aguilera?”
She shot Nikolas a look as sharp as an ice blade, then sneered and said, “Yeah, you gave birth to me and raised me, but if you guys could be so unfilial and make my grandma die from anger, can’t I just follow your example and be unfilial to you too?”
“Ira, Ira, you… why did you have to do this, we were wrong before, but now we all know we were wrong, we’ve all changed, can’t you just…”
“Can’t!”
Nikolas hadn’t even finished speaking when Iris cut him off and told them clearly, “From the moment Grandma died, I didn’t have parents anymore.”
“If I still owed you for raising me, then when I married Heriberto, the three hundred million bride price from the Hale family was enough to
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