After the New Year's Eve Tragedy Her Icy Return novel Chapter 132

Chapter 132 Good Karma

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Caroline snapped out of her thoughts and gave Maia a gentle smile. “It’s nothing.”

Maia nodded and hesitated for a moment before speaking. “Can I ask you something?”

“Of course. Ask anything you like.”

Encouraged by Caroline’s openness, Maia finally voiced the question that had been bothering her. “You and I aren’t related. We’ve never even met before. Why are you helping me?”

She had never seen Caroline in person, but she’d heard the name before–several times, in fact, from her mother’s mouth.

If her mom hadn’t shouted Caroline’s name today, she never would’ve known that the woman who stood up for her was the same Caroline she’d heard about.

Caroline seemed hesitant. Then a smile slowly curved across her lips. “Probably because I couldn’t stand the way your mother treats you.”

But the real reason lay deeper. In her past life, Caroline had once received a phone call.

The person on the other end had warned her–told her to be careful because someone named Ruth was planning to have her violated.

When she asked who was calling, the person had hurriedly said the name was Maia before hanging up.

Caroline didn’t know any Maia then.

But she knew Ruth well enough to believe such a vile thing was possible.

So she stayed home those days unless she absolutely had to go out. When she did, she kept to busy streets and always carried pepper spray.

But one morning, she did run into a group of thugs. They leered at her with disturbing looks in their eyes and started trailing her down the street. Fear gripped her–were they the ones Ruth had sent? She quickly merged into a nearby crowd and made her way to a police station. Only then did they finally back off.

She’d always wanted to thank the mysterious girl who called herself Maia.

Later, by pure coincidence, she found out Maia was Ruth’s daughter.

And that Ruth didn’t seem to care much for her at all.

“Thank you, Ms. Somerton,” Maia said sincerely.

Her mother and Alaina had been close friends. Plus, her grandmother had worked as a maid in the Somerton household for years.

It made sense that Caroline already knew what kind of person her mother was.

And yet, even knowing Ruth’s petty, vindictive nature, Caroline had still stepped in to help her. That touched Maia deeply.

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Chapter 132 Good Karma

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She had worked at the Somertons household long enough to know Caroline had moved out.

They weren’t headed in the same direction.

“Just now, I overheard your mother telling you to go cook at the Somerton Residence. What did she mean by that?”