Too Late to Hold Me Back novel Chapter 234

"Understood, Boss."

The next morning, as Mira headed to school with the Iron Wolves, she spotted Elara waiting by the building entrance.

"Elara! Didn't I tell you not to wait for me?"

Mira's morning routine involved rigorous martial arts training, meaning she always left for school at the last possible second. Walking with someone else slowed her down.

Elara hesitated. "Mira, I really need to talk to you."

Mira had become her pillar of strength. Following Mira's advice always seemed to make things better.

"What's going on? Can't it wait until we're at school?"

The two began walking together.

"My mom showed up."

"Your mom?"

Mira almost blurted out that Elara didn't have a mother, but stopped herself.

Valerie Lester had abandoned Elara and her father when Elara was only three, right after a devastating car accident left her father severely disabled.

"When?"

"Yesterday. I was tutoring Leo, and she just tracked us down."

"Did you see her?"

Elara nodded. "She looked wealthy. Dressed in high-end designer clothes, pulled up in a luxury car with her new husband.

They tried to take me away right then and there. My dad refused, and so did I.

She abandoned us when we had nothing—why does she want me now?

I'd rather starve on the streets with my dad than acknowledge her.

But they insisted they'd take me by force, even threatened legal action."

Mira frowned in thought. "Don't panic. She's probably just trying to scare you. I'll consult a lawyer for you when I have a minute."

"Did she offer you money?" Mira asked as they kept a brisk pace.

"She tossed my dad a debit card with a hundred thousand dollars on it, but he wouldn't take it.

He threw it back in her face. Told her she couldn't buy his daughter."

"Mira, I'm really scared. They looked dead serious."

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