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No matter how desperately Ileana pleaded, Karen stood her ground. She neither stepped forward nor retreated,
her daughter's cries drifting past her as if carried away by the wind.
lleana’s lips trembled, and tears slipped down her cheeks.
“Mom, | miss you so much...”
Her voice wavered, just like when she was a little girl, trying to win Karen over with childish sweetness.
“Mom, my birth parents didn’t want me-I get it, really. They never raised me, so of course they don’t care. But
you... you're the one who broughtup. Are you going to turn your back ontoo?”
Karen pressed her lips together. “You're the one who left us. Why cback now?”
Panic flickered across lleana’s face, but she tried to hide it. “I didn’t leave! | didn't!”
She rubbed her nose, a nervous habit giving her away.
“It was Scott!” she blurted, her tone suddenly certain. “It was Scott and the others-they wouldn't lettalk to
you. They cutoff from everyone. I... | didn’t have a choice, Mom, you know | was just a kid back then. |
wasn't even eighteen. What could | do?”
“So now they've changed their minds, have they?” Karen's voice was flat, her disappointment long since worn
into numbness. Still, she needed to ask, needed to hear it from Illeana herself.
What had the Mortons ever done to deserve this? After everything they’d given her, why would she break their
hearts like this? And now, instead of facing her own mistakes, she was trying to drag Alessia down with her,
sending strangers to hound her online.
What had they done so wrong to raise a daughter so utterly ungrateful-a daughter who would turn on them
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Karen felt neither sadness nor anger. She'd been through too much for that now. She only spoke because she
wanted answers-nothing more.
But Ileana still thought Karen was in the dark, still clinging to her own pitiful performance.
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“I'm an adult now, Mom. But | was away, overseas, and the moment | got back, | chere to see you,” she
said, forcing a smile as she gripped the iron railing, as if letting go meant losing her last chance.
“Please, Mom, just letin. I'm so tired from standing out here. Look at me-my clothes, my hair... Can we just
go inside and talk? | don’t want the neighbors to see us like this.”
Karen's gaze was empty, her eyes stripped of emotion. She shook her head slowly, but there was an
unmistakable firmness in her gesture.
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“That's right-they always did love you...” Karen let out a bitter laugh, her voice heavy with irony. But the
mockery was for herself, not for Illeana.
Watching Karen's reaction, lleana’s nerves began to fray.
“Mom, just letspeak to them. Please.”
“Is it really your phone that’s broken or lost? Or did they block your number? Don’t you know the answer
yourself?”
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