My Child and I Married a Billionaire novel Chapter 351

Chapter 351: Chapter 351: Dragging Him Back

She was so exhausted she could have died in her sleep, but she forced herself to grab her phone and send a message to her boss.

"Family emergency. I need to take a half-day off tomorrow morning. Thank you, Mr. James."

She put her phone down. Not even a second later, she was asleep.

She was deep in a heavy sleep, dreaming of eating steak, drinking red wine, and listening to elegant piano music, when a sudden slap struck her across the face.

Immediately after, her mother, acting like a child, grabbed her by the shoulders and began to shake her violently.

"Sherry, get up! Sherry, get up! Mommy’s hungry, Mommy’s hungry! Sherry, wake up~"

She already had a cut on her forehead. Her mother, oblivious to her own strength, had slapped her right on it, and the girl felt the wound split open again.

A warm trickle of blood slid down her forehead. Afraid of getting it on the pillow, she had no choice but to bolt upright.

She wiped it with her hand. Just as she thought, it was bleeding again.

’And why can’t I see out of this eye? Is it swollen?’

She reached up and touched it. It felt like a small mound. It really was swollen.

She couldn’t help but laugh.

’I’ve been hit so many times, I’m practically an expert.’

’I just knew my eye would be swollen shut today. Good thing I asked for time off last night.’

Seeing her laugh, her mother took her hand and laughed too.

"Sherry’s laughing? Hehe, when Sherry’s happy, Mommy’s happy. Sherry, get up, Mommy’s hungry."

"Mom, you didn’t eat last night?"

"Hitting, hitting! Food, thrown!"

’No wonder she’s so hungry. Dad came home yesterday and threw her food on the floor!’

Her mother had always been slender, even when she was young. After the incident, her alcoholic, gambling, and abusive father had driven her to a mental breakdown, and the past few years had been exceptionally miserable.

When Sherry had to work and her father wasn’t home, her mother would be left alone to nibble on bread, eating sporadically, making her even more emaciated.

Looking at her skeletal mother, Sherry had to drag herself out of bed, no matter how tired she was.

"Okay, okay, I’ll go make you something to eat now. Be good. Just wait here for a little bit."

Although they had moved to Rivia many years ago, her parents were accustomed to oriental food, as was Sherry, so they still needed to eat rice from time to time.

She steamed some rice and stir-fried some shredded potatoes. After eating her fill with her mother, she dug some ice cubes out of the small fridge to press against her eye, then sat by the window in a daze.

Her gaze fell on the lake outside the window, and she suddenly remembered the man lying out there...

The sky was clear again today, with bright sunlight shining down on the earth. Sherry, her figure weary, dragged a shovel back to Damien Vaughn’s side.

"Why is he so heavy?"

She planned to drag him to the base of the small hill across the road and bury him in a hidden hole in the ground to keep the smell from spreading.

It was about 300 meters away.

Sherry tried to grab Damien Vaughn by the ankles and drag him, but at only five-foot-three and weighing less than ninety pounds, it was like trying to pull a mountain. She couldn’t budge him at all.

"So annoying. Couldn’t you have died somewhere else? Why’d you have to die here and cause me so much trouble?"

Due to chronic malnutrition, Sherry was in very poor health.

She pulled a few times but failed to move him, making herself dizzy.

She had to stop to catch her breath, and in her frustration, she gave Damien Vaughn’s leg a kick.

’If I really can’t move him, I’ll just bury him here. I’ll just have to dig the hole deeper. I have to be at work in a little over two hours. There’s no time.’

’At least it rained yesterday. The ground shouldn’t be too hard to dig.’

After resting for a moment, she turned her back to Damien Vaughn and started swinging the shovel at the grassy ground.

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