Billionaire's Reborn Baby novel Chapter 264

Emma was not surprised with the number, raising her eyebrows slightly. "Are you willing to leave him?"

Bernice got aggrieved again. "But he doesn't like me... If he likes me, why doesn't he come often? When he comes, he quarrels with me. He smells of perfume from other women and he has lipstick marks... I'm so angry..."

"Don't men behave like that when they engage in social activities?" Even since she was old enough to remember, she had been taken out by her eldest brother and second brother a few times. A group of men were sitting in the private room, accompanied by seductive women in sensual clothes.

"Why does he need to engage in social activities?" Her mother became angry. "It's a pity that you are not a boy. If you were a boy, you would have a small share of such a large enterprise. Now those two damn women are happy. Sons usually take over the business of the father. Needless to say, the inheritance will go to the sons of those two damn women!"

Emma wanted to say, "I don't want to inherit it at all", but she bit her tongue.

Her mother was a dependent woman by nature, who needed a man to pamper her. However, she felt aggrieved to spend her best time in an empty villa, and she was reluctant to swallow it. She knew a whining baby always got the attention, and that bastard would send something over after the fight today. This was what she wanted. At least, the other women would think he cared for her.

This was enough. Hadn't they fought for so many years just to win the affection?

The crying tired Bernice out. She leaned on Emma's shoulder and sniffed, asking in a muffled voice, "Emma, do you think I am useless?"

Emma touched her well-preserved hair and said, "You've done a good job. Don't quarrel with him the next time if you want something. If you continue like this, he won't come again."

Her mother got angry again. "I dare him not to come! If he doesn't come, I'll go to the mansion and make a scene!"

Emma looked at her grey hair and felt distressed. "Mom, have you ever thought of leaving this place?"

Her mother said excitedly with a longing look like a naive girl, "Langkawi, the Island where I can bask in the sun and enjoy the beach breeze. That old bastard promised me to go there long time ago, but we never went..."

"I mean leaving here for good," Emma said softly.

Her mother fell silent.

After a long time, she said as tears coursed down. "I can't leave him."

Emma looked at the rain beating at the window, feeling irritated with the persistent noise.

"You will understand later. If you meet a man you like very much, your heart will ache a lot when he likes someone else. If I had Heartless Pills, I would definitely feed you one, so that you will not fall in love anyone and will not feel any heartache like the TV dramas..."

"No." Emma smiled faintly. "I won't fall in love with anyone."

"Why do you say that?" Her mother looked at her in surprise. Suddenly she had a frightened look on her face, and she shouted at Emma with ferocious eyes, "Emma, where are you? Emma!"

"Mom! Mom!" Someone called her in her ears, finally waking her out of the dream.

She panted slightly, sweat on her forehead. The sky cleared up. The rainstorm last night had finally stopped. It would be a fine day. After the rain, the air was exceptionally fresh with a slightly salty smell of wet clay.

Stony wiped her sweat with the back of his hand and asked, "Mom, did you have a nightmare?"

"It's not a nightmare," Emma said. She didn't know how to explain it, so she changed the topic. "Why did you wake up so early?"

"Mom, did you forget? Yesterday you said you'd take me to the Cultural Palace," Stony said with his big bright eyes.

Emma smiled apologetically at him. "I'm muddled from the sleep." She looked at the clock on the wall. It was five past six. It was not early. "Okay. I get up now."

"Mom, I'll help you put on the socks." Stony found a clean pair of pure white socks and sat on the edge of the bed, clumsily putting them on her feet.