Free Web NovelChapter 469: Chapter 469: From This Moment On, I’ll Say I Love You (69)
Yara Ross’s expression turned grim as she listened to Eleanor Bishop. "Eleanor," she said angrily, "did you upset Jason again?"
"Jason, Jason... Mom, is he the only one you care about?!" Sometimes, she truly wondered if she was her mother’s actual daughter, or if Jason Lockwood was her son.
"Eleanor Bishop, what nonsense are you spouting! Is that any way to talk to your mother?"
Eleanor Bishop felt utterly exhausted, body and soul. When she spoke, her voice was tinged with pleading. "Mom, I came back so late last night. Aren’t you going to ask what happened?" Even a single question would have kept her heart from feeling so cold...
"What else could have happened? Eleanor Bishop, don’t change the subject. Just tell me the truth, did you upset Jason? If you did, go and apologize to him right now," Yara Ross snapped, jabbing an angry finger toward the door.
Eleanor Bishop clutched Rory tightly, tears streaming down her face as she spoke, her voice full of sorrow. "Mom, even Rory can tell something happened to me. Can’t you show me a little more concern?"
Only then, hearing Eleanor’s words, did Yara Ross finally notice her daughter’s red, swollen face. Her anger vanished in an instant. She rushed over, a look of concern on her face, and asked, "Eleanor, you... what happened to you?"
"Mom, I was kidnapped yesterday. It took everything I had to escape." Although her mother’s attitude had changed drastically since the Bishop Family’s downfall, the mother she remembered from before had doted on her. So now, hearing that question, she broke down completely, crying like a child.
Yara Ross was terrified. "Kidnapped?" she asked, her voice panicked. "How could you have been kidnapped? Eleanor, didn’t you go to Jason?"
"Don’t mention Jason Lockwood again! He’s the one who ordered them to kidnap me!" Hearing her mother bring up Jason Lockwood even now, Eleanor angrily wiped away her tears and snapped.
Yara Ross shook her head in disbelief. "That’s impossible. Jason... how could he possibly hire someone to kidnap you?" frёewebηovel.cѳm
"Why is it impossible? Mom, I’ve told you before, Jason Lockwood is not a good person! To force me to marry him, wasn’t what he did to our Bishop Family cruel enough?"
"Eleanor, you must have done something to anger Jason again. Otherwise, why would he treat you like this...?" Although Yara Ross now mostly believed her daughter, she insisted on playing dumb, shaking her head and saying coldly. freewёbnoνel.com
"Mom, why won’t you believe me...?"
"Eleanor, wait a while. Once Jason has calmed down, go and beg for his forgiveness. I’m sure he’ll be able to let bygones be bygones and forgive you. For now, just get some rest." With that, Yara Ross scurried out of the room, looking flustered.
Watching her mother leave, Eleanor Bishop bit her lip and buried her head in Rory’s shoulder.
"Mommy, don’t cry. Rory give Mommy kisses. Mommy don’t cry..."
At these words, Eleanor cried even harder. She lifted her head to look at Rory and said through her sobs, "Rory, Mommy is so sorry. I’m so sorry for making you live in such an unhappy family. It’s all my fault."
"Mommy..."
Eleanor Bishop wiped away her tears and looked at Rory tentatively. "Rory," she asked, "if... and this is just a hypothetical... if you had a father, would you want to live with him?"
