Reborn To Stay Away From Him novel Chapter 17

Stephen ran to Edmund, wrapped his arms tightly around Edmund’s leg, and burst into loud sobs.

“Dad, I was wrong. Diana told me that Mom was useless and could only be a nanny. I want Mom to come back!”

Every single word was like an ice pick stabbing straight into Edmund’s heart.

“Eddy, how can you believe a child’s words? He’s just slandering me because I didn’t cook the food he likes. Don’t you remember? He often cursed at Josie. Now he’s turning on me too.”

Diana shook Edmund’s arm in panic, tears streaming down her face as she cried.

Edmund recalled what he had said to Josephine that day.

“Would a six–year–old child lie?”

He would–and he would even make up a convincing reason.

Edmund shoved Diana away and clamped his hands tightly around her neck, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.

“What exactly have I done to wrong you? Was I not good enough to you, or did I not give you enough? You already have more than enough. Why would you still do this to Josie!”

Diana’s face flushed crimson as she desperately clutched Edmund’s arms.

“Edmund… was it really only me? Weren’t all of these things done by both of us together?”

Her words instantly drained the strength from Edmund’s arms, and he staggered back two steps.

Diana shed her usual fragile demeanor and pointed at Edmund as she questioned him.

“You were the one who fell in love with me at first sight at the

engagement banquet. That night, did you reject me? Did you push me away?”

“I told you to switch my son over and forbade you from raising your daughter, and weren’t you perfectly willing to do it?”

“That day when I aimed a handgun at Josephine, you were standing right beside me. You saw everything!”

Edmund shook his head, not daring to think deeply about everything that had happened over the past few years.

But Diana seemed unwilling to let him off, pressing him word by word.

side with an outsider?”

Stephen refused to listen to her at all and yanked hard at her hair.

“You’re lying. My mom isn’t you!”

“She abandoned you long ago and went to look for her own daughter! Josephine is really good at pretending. In fact, she knew it all along- she was just waiting for the day she could find Jesslyn! But I had already instructed Gianna to kill Jesslyn!”

Edmund stiffly turned his head. “What did you just say?”

Diana burst into completely deranged laughter, pointing at Edmund as she laughed until tears clung to her face.

“Do you think Josephine didn’t know what happened? That day, she heard everything clearly at the restaurant! She knew it was you who took Jesslyn away, and it was also you who made it impossible for her to ever have children again!”

“But did she tell you? Let me tell you–she stopped caring about you a long time ago and had already made up her mind to leave!”

“Luckily, I planned ahead. I was never going to let Jesslyn live. I had Gianna throw Jesslyn out the door immediately and let her freeze to death!”