Abandoned by All I Took It All Back novel Chapter 197

Hearing her mother's words, Wendy finally snapped. Even now, all her mother cared about was protecting Baron, worried that he couldn't handle the stress.

"Mom, are you still defending him? Is his epilepsy our fault?"

"He did this to himself! For over a decade, you two dragged him to countless hospitals and spent so much money because of his condition. The doctors told him not to smoke, not to drink, to get enough sleep, and to limit screen time. And what did he do?"

"He ignored every single piece of advice. He smokes, he drinks, he gambles, he stays up all night playing video games for days straight! You have to stop covering for him! He's a grown man! He can't live under your wing forever!"

The more Wendy spoke, the angrier she became, not giving her mother a chance to interject. "He made this mess, and he needs to be the one to face the consequences. What are we going to figure out? Are we just going to quietly pay off his debts for him like all the other times?"

Wendy's voice was thick with resentment, unfairness, and a sense of suffocation.

Baron had suffered from epilepsy since he was a child. Even Janina and her other friends hadn't known. If they hadn't overheard this call, they would have remained in the dark.

Wendy was done protecting him.

Because of his illness, her parents had always felt they owed him something.

Mrs. Clifford often blamed herself, believing she was the reason Baron wasn't healthy.

There was an old superstition in her village that if a pregnant woman ate pork from a sow, her child would be born with epilepsy.

Mrs. Clifford was convinced that she had eaten sow meat while pregnant with Baron, thus cursing her son with the condition.

The illness was unpredictable. When a seizure struck, it came without warning.

Seeing him convulsing on the ground always broke Mrs. Clifford's heart.

When she found out Wendy was planning to go to Portsborough to find Baron, she panicked, worried that a confrontation would trigger a seizure. That's why she had called.

Realizing Wendy was furious, Mrs. Clifford's own frayed nerves gave way, and her voice rose.

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