"Enough!" Yolanda Greenwood was utterly exasperated, "All this is no one else’s fault but your own making. What right do you have to curse Brooks Parker?"
"You’re talking nonsense," lissa Greenwood dropped all pretense of refinent, "If he hadn’t pretended to be so capable and full of prospects, would I have been blind enough to get together with him?"
"If I hadn’t gotten together with him, I wouldn’t have gotten pregnant, and I wouldn’t have given you and the lowlife in your belly a chance." By the end, she was gritting her teeth as if she wanted to take Yolanda down with her.
Yolanda found this person beyond help, "lissa Greenwood, do you only think about yourself? Have you ever considered what Brooks Parker’s life might have been like if it weren’t for you?"
"Him? Without , he’d still be a total loser," lissa said with utter disdain.
Yolanda had had enough, "lissa Greenwood, you always do this, always casting the bla onto others, always thinking you’re the most pitiable one. Little did you know, it’s precisely because of eting you that others began their unfortunate lives."
"Whom are you referring to?" lissa asked with a defeated laugh, arms crossed, "Gemma Morgan? Or Jaxon Greenwood?"
Yolanda bit her lip, "Not just them, even Eliana Reed, your own mother, didn’t end up well."
lissa’s complexion shifted, "Eliana Reed committed suicide out of guilt; what does that have to do with ?"
"You know very well whether it has anything to do with you," Yolanda couldn’t be bothered to argue with her.
"Yolanda," lissa glared at her, infuriated and embarrassed, "do you know what I hate most? Your holier-than-thou attitude, acting as if you’re always right."
"lissa Greenwood, between you and now, does it even matter if I hate you or not?" Yolanda said coldly, "If possible, I wish I could kill you myself."
"Oh, that’d be tricky," lissa replied, almost delighted.
"Enough, talking like this is pointless," Yolanda shifted her position slightly, "The lies are about to be exposed. What’s your plan now?"
Those words indeed hit lissa’s sore spot, and she leapt up instantly.
"What’s wrong with lying? Haven’t you, Yolanda Greenwood, ever lied?" She defended vigorously, "I lied because I had no choice, I was forced by you all. I just wanted to marry the man I loved the most. How was that wrong?"
"The one you loved the most?" Yolanda couldn’t help but be amused, "lissa Greenwood, the person you’ve always loved the most has always been yourself?"
"..." lissa paused before continuing, "What’s wrong with loving myself? Should I learn from you, Yolanda Greenwood, trying not to harm this person or let down that person, but end up unable to protect even my own parents?"
Yolanda was shaken, the matter of Jaxon and Gemma was her deepest wound.
She remained silent, suddenly recalling what Adam Sterling had said after, "Yolanda, you’re not wrong. All of this is because you’ve encountered a madman. How can a normal person fight a madman?"
Yes, to outfight a madman, one must gradually beco mad themselves.
And so, Yolanda was here today to threaten lissa, not to have her wounds reopened again and again and continue to suffer.
Yolanda looked up at lissa, "lissa Greenwood, for everything you’ve done, I will make you pay."
"Price?" lissa laughed nervously, "You an to go tell Cooper Coldson the truth? Go ahead, do you think Cooper would believe you?"
"If it was just alone, Cooper might not believe," Yolanda confidently stated, "Don’t forget, there’s Brooks Parker and Little May, and if necessary, you can have a DNA paternity test."
lissa was infuriated but could only glare at Yolanda through gritted teeth, "What do you want exactly? After so much has happened, do you still want to be with Cooper? Do you think you can go back to how things were?"
Yolanda suddenly laughed, having to admit lissa had always been very calm.
"You’re right, we can’t go back, and I never intended to," Yolanda spoke lightly, "To now, Cooper Coldson is like a dish of cold pasta. I have no appetite. As for you... since you’re so fond of it, you might as well take it."
lissa was shocked, wide-eyed. She hadn’t expected Yolanda to say such a thing.
At such a critical mont, the look on Yolanda’s face suggested she wasn’t just trying to irritate her—it seed to co from the heart.
Was it possible that the thing she had clung to and fought over so desperately, Yolanda truly didn’t care for anymore?
lissa couldn’t believe it and found it even harder to accept, "Are you telling the truth?"
Before Yolanda could answer, lissa answered for herself, "No, that’s not true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to trick into coming here today with Brooks Parker."
"I et with you, of course I have a purpose," Yolanda admitted frankly, "But my goal isn’t Cooper..."
lissa narrowed her eyes uneasily, "What do you really want? My life? To avenge your parents?"
"I want you to take May in and raise her properly," Yolanda spoke calmly.
"What did you say?" lissa doubted her own ears.
"May is your child, and it’s clear that Brooks Parker’s situation is not suitable for raising a child," Yolanda patiently explained, "So, regardless of the excuses you make, whether it’s adoption or claiming you found her, take May back and raise her well."
"..." lissa paused, then burst into laughter, "Hahaha..."
She laughed so hard she couldn’t stand straight, "Yolanda Greenwood, Yolanda, you really are sick. What do the life and death of that little bastard have to do with you? Do you want to play the saint? Hahaha..."
Yolanda looked at lissa with pity.
lissa abruptly stopped laughing, "Why are you looking at with that kind of pity? You think I’m pathetic?"
She scoffed, "Yolanda, don’t be foolish. The pitiful one is you. Doing this will get you nowhere, and when May grows up by my side, she’ll beco just like , making your child’s life a living hell. Aren’t you afraid?"
She looked at Yolanda with a challenging expression, "Imagine it. Everything you’re going through now, the child in your belly will experience in the future, and it’ll all be because of you. Do you still want to raise May?"
Yolanda clearly hesitated.
"Hahaha..." lissa was pleased again, "Scared? Regretful? Yolanda, you’re such a hypocrite!"
"I’m thinking if May really turns out like you, then maybe I’m making a mistake."
"You!" lissa was infuriated, her eyes bulging.
"Let’s do this then, I’ll add another condition," Yolanda spoke slowly, "Every month, May has to spend two days with ."
"Heh, two days? That might not be enough."
lissa’s mind spun and she quickly agreed, "Yolanda, I can accept your condition and raise May properly, but why should I believe you? What if one day you change your mind and have new conditions?"
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