n to her when she initially got married to Mr. Leo Adams, and two mo

ed as she stared at the room cloc

down from the bed and felt li

d and wore her slippers as she adju

nd walked out from her bedr

at it's school resumption day, and her 14-year-old

iving room and paused as she stared around t

ving room has alrea

st then Olima stepped out from the kitchen behi

ed hot as she heard Ol

n her light blue nightgown. She rus

lima a hot resound

Or do I resemble your stupid late mother?" Mrs. Gina questioned a

e you prepared my daughter's breakfast yet?" Mrs. Gin

palms that she had used to hold Olima by her shou

as she went into the kitchen to was

Mia walked out onto the balcony upstairs

everberated in the living r

he living room and was dresse

as she carried her black school

nd knows that her mother h

hough she never showed it t

ed their late father, while Olima is very

her father was still alive a

ays doting on Olima and her mother named Mrs. Zoe,

ng school, as Olima was the apple of her father's e

into the living room as she made

id anymore, and she mandated for Olima to become their full-time housemaid, with Olima's complete withdrawal from her tutorial classes, and her mot

ll the luxury of their parents' wealth, while she and her m

already told her

ars as she sobbed from the h

as she had finished washing her hands off Ol

and there doing? Have you prepared breakfast yet, or d

eplied, "I have prep

d stared at her palms that she push

like her late mother, Mrs. Gina's former childhood fri

kay?" Mia asked as she

ter. Mia also too resembled late Mr. Leo

join her daughter and settled on

gh," Mrs. Gina grimaced and subtly remembered how her late husband usually s

ation at the remembrance, and Mia

ss from her mother

so long to serve out that noodles in that kitchen? Or does sh

e kitchen carrying a tray of hot

plate on the tray, with fried egg

d sit up properly on her chair as she coll

s forced to learn how to cook by Mrs. Gin

staring?" Mrs. Gina growled at Olima, and Olima shud

college, the best in her science department. And now, her stepmother has plainly refused her from furthering her education wit

nd term already, while

t to the kitchen

other again. That she really needed to write the university entrance examination and

e Mia ate the delicious noodles and fried eggs quick

a trembling body

na turned and

estioned, "What do you want? I th

ok some steps backward and replied with a shaky voice, "Ma.. it's

u graduate from your school as the best in your class, when you couldn't even understand simple English at home? G