Chapter 733 A Mother’s Blind Devotion
Chapter 733 A Mother’s Blind Devotion
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Margaret seemed to remember how, once Paul grew up, he learned to weigh benefits and tasted the privileges that came with being the Powell heir.
Especially with Wyatt’s growing influence, Paul reveled in the confidence power gave him, and even more in the feeling of lording it over Wyatt with borrowed strength.
He began flattering Linda. For the sake of attending her banquets, he could forget his own mother’s birthday.
That year, Margaret sat before a cake the whole night, waiting for her son, waiting for her husband. Neither showed up.
Only Yunice brought her a gift and kept her company through that birthday.
Margaret wiped the corner of her eye with her hand and forced a smile. “But Yunice… no matter how thoughtful you are, you’re not my real daughter. You can’t replace Paul. Even with you by my side, I still felt empty inside. Yes, after the divorce, I stopped treating Jensen as family and lived my own life. But all of that was based on the knowledge that Paul, somewhere else in the world, was living in comfort. Now, in your hands, he may not even have the dignity of being human. How could a mother possibly bear that thought?”
Yunice didn’t argue. She knew Margaret was speaking the truth.
Life was complicated. She herself hated everyone in the Saunders family and wanted them to live in suffering, yet she still couldn’t bring herself to wish them dead.
She asked softly, “What about Jensen? Do you know where he is?”
If a mother could go this far for her son, then what of the father?
Margaret gave a bitter laugh. “I know what you want to say. Before the Powell family collapsed, Jensen fled with money, running abroad with Linda to live as a pair of lovebirds. They don’t care about the Powells, don’t care about our son–only their own pleasures. You want to tell me that men are heartless, that even if I save Paul this time, he won’t be grateful to me. But how could a mother weigh debts with her own child?”
Yunice rested her head on the pillow, her tone wistful. “I envy Paul. In my family, the only one who got that kind of love from my mother was Elsie.”
Margaret drew in a long breath. “Enough of that. I’ll ask you plainly–tell me the truth. Is Paul
still alive?”
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Yunice’s eyes held sincerity. “I don’t know. The last time Paul and Nora were hiding with the Johnson family, the police surrounded them. They only caught Nora–Paul vanished into thin air. Since then, we’ve heard nothing. I even quarreled with Wyatt over it. I thought he had deliberately let Paul go, because he feared that once I got my revenge, I’d leave him.”
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