My Husband Said His Student Was More Important Than His Pregnant Wife Until I Asked for Divorce novel Chapter 53

Chapter 6

I surfaced from the memory, gaze level on Gabriel. “Colonel, we were done ten years ago”

“I don’t understand what this is about now.”

“If there’s nothing else, please don’t disturb my life again.”

Gabriel’s knuckles were white. ” I’m sorry… about ten years ago, I was a bastard.”

The Gabriel I knew never apologized.

When I used to confront him in tears, he was always righteous, stingy with even a single explanation.

Now, this belated apology only made me feel surreal.

“Understood.”

I smiled. “But unnecessary. Compared to an apology, I’d rather we remain strangers.”

The dismissal couldn’t have been clearer.

Gabriel stood nailed to the spot, his face ashen.

The bell chimed again.

Preston pushed the door open, trailing an older woman.

I nodded to her. “Mrs. Vance.”

Victoria’s eyes reddened instantly. “Hazel… why don’t you call me Mom anymore?”

She staggered forward, wanting to hug me. I sidestepped to avoid it.

Her hand hung in the air, trembling. “You still hate us, is that it?”

Preston closed his eyes behind her, pained.

I kept smiling. “You exaggerate, Mrs. Vance. It’s just that I haven’t dared to forget a single word you two said back then.”

That night in the snow, they had been there too.

Watching security pin my arms behind my back in the snow. Hearing Gabriel say the words “authorize lethal

force.”

I’d reached out with my cracked, bleeding hands, choking out “Mom” and “Preston.”

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They’d stepped back a half-step, avoiding the blood on my hands:

“Hazel, this is getting ugly.”

“Stop calling me Mom. The Vances have nothing to do with you anymore.”

“From now on… consider yourself disowned.”

The memory solidified the air.

Victoria could barely stand, held up by Preston so she wouldn’t fall.

Only now did I see her clearly. Ten years apart, the once elegant socialite was now gray at the temples, her brows heavy with exhausted grief.

Preston’s voice was hoarse. “It was me who failed you… but Mom has thought of you every day all these

years.”

“We’re still family, Hazel. Blood ties can’t be severed. Even if you won’t forgive us now, at least give me a chance to make it up to you…”

“That’s not true!”

Harley suddenly burst from the back, tightly latching onto my arm. “Hazel has me! I’m her real family!”

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