James immediately pointed at me, complaining bitterly, “This is all Mia’s fault! She’s just jealous of Michelle, so she made up thi huge lie about intruders breaking in!”
“Enough!”
Mom interrupted him coldly. “You’re the one who made the terrible mistake!
“Putting a woman before your family’s safety—James, I’m so disappointed in you!”
After being injured, Mom had called James multiple times, but he never answered.
Even worse, in her semi–conscious state, Mom had heard that call from the intruder to James, where he nonchalantly said, “Kill
them if you want, just stop interrupting Michelle and me watching the meteor shower. What a nuisance!”
Being treated so coldly by her own son had completely frozen Mom’s heart.
James’s face darkened, but he still maintained his “I did nothing wrong” attitude, stubbornly insisting, “How could the timing be
so convenient? I leave with the security guards, and suddenly intruders break in to rob and kill?
“Mom, don’t be fooled by Mia.
“She staged the whole thing just to trick me!”
I was amazed by his twisted logic and misplaced confidence.
Even now, he still thought I had nothing better to do than joke around with Mom’s life and my own?
I held Mom’s hand, gently patting the back of it to help her calm down.
