Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 256

Chapter 256: Chapter 256: A Cuckoo in the Nest

In the span of just half a day, the snow falling from the sky grew heavier.

Flakes of black snow, each carrying particles of volcanic ash, drifted down from the sky in what looked like a mysterious and unsettling dance.

They landed gently on the ground, accumulating in a thick layer, as if draping the earth in a black and gray shroud.

In the afternoon, the city buses were suspended once again due to fears that volcanic ash particles would get sucked into the engines and damage the vehicles.

Elaine Hughes stood before the bus stop at The Metropolis Residences, watching the snow-filled sky with a heart full of helplessness and anxiety.

She had originally planned to take the bus home, but now she had to face reality: she would have to walk.

There was no money to put gas in the family’s runaround car, so she couldn’t ask Robert Lancaster or the others to drive out and pick her up.

Elaine Hughes wrapped her coat tighter, gritted her teeth, and began the step-by-step journey home.

The snow grew heavier, and the wind more violent, blowing so hard she could barely open her eyes. The black snow fell thick and fast, landing on her and chilling her to the bone.

There were almost no other pedestrians on the road; only her lonely figure struggled through the snow.

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Elaine Hughes walked for a full four hours before she finally reached the Lancaster Villa. By then, she felt as if she was about to lose all feeling in her legs.

As she stepped through the front door, she felt an unexpected sense of relief, as if she had just survived a disaster.

With trembling hands, Elaine Hughes opened the villa’s door. Then, as if she had exhausted her very last ounce of strength, she collapsed onto the floor of the entryway.

She ripped off the scarf covering her mouth and nose and began to gasp for air.

While she was outside, she had been too afraid of inhaling the volcanic ash particles in the snow to breathe freely. She had kept her mouth and nose covered with her scarf the entire time and had nearly suffocated.

Even so, her throat now felt like it was full of sand—sore and itchy, making her unable to stop herself from coughing.

Hearing Elaine Hughes’s coughing, Sylvia Lancaster, who had been waiting anxiously in the living room, rushed over to check on her.

Seeing that Elaine Hughes was back, Sylvia Lancaster asked anxiously, "Mom, you’re finally back! How did it go? Did Melody Summers agree to give us that house?"

With the heavy snow already falling, Sylvia Lancaster knew there was no time to waste. They had to move out of the villa before the blizzards piled the snow so high they risked being buried alive.

Hearing her voice, Elaine Hughes lifted her head and looked at Sylvia Lancaster with a numb expression.

On the way back, she had walked and thought the entire time.

’Now I finally realize it. My own daughter, the one I carried for ten months, truly wants nothing to do with me!’

It was as if she were waking from a long dream, and Elaine Hughes was suddenly overcome with grief.

’I was so excited for my daughter to be born. I never imagined that as soon as she was born, she would be swapped by the family’s nanny!’

’The nanny’s daughter took my daughter’s place and enjoyed over twenty years of a life of luxury.’

’While the nanny’s daughter enjoyed a life of wealth with the Lancasters, my biological daughter was starving.’

’Then, by some miracle, my real daughter finally had a chance to return to my side, but I pushed her away with my own hands.’

’For the sake of the nanny’s daughter, I abandoned my own flesh and blood.’

’There is no mother in this world more foolish than me!’

’And this girl in front of me, this nanny’s daughter that I raised with my own hands, had the audacity to seduce my own son!’

At that thought, all of Elaine Hughes’s inner pain transformed into rage.

She pushed herself up on her numb legs, staggering to her feet.

Then, meeting Sylvia Lancaster’s anxious and expectant gaze, she raised her hand and viciously slapped her across the face!

A sharp CRACK echoed through the empty entryway.

Elaine Hughes had put her all into that slap. Sylvia Lancaster felt nothing but a fiery sting across her cheek.

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