Wasteland Queen: My Harvest Power novel Chapter 5

Reina had no idea Easton had started targeting her. She just went back to her room.

She grabbed two pieces of underwear and went to the public bathroom for a shower. She even filled up two jugs of clean water, leaving her with exactly 2 points in her account.

After drying her short hair, she just lay down on the bed when her smartwatch started beeping nonstop.

She picked it up. It was her mom.

Reina frowned, then answered the call.

Helen's image popped up. The moment she saw her daughter, she started yelling, "Reina! Where the hell have you been? Why didn't you come home?"

Reina said calmly, "I'm out in the wilderness. Why would I go home?"

"In the wilderness? You always come back at night!" Helen asked, trying to hold back her anger.

Reina said, "It's a hassle to go back and forth, and I have to pay for the ride. I'm not going back anymore."

"What? Not coming back anymore?" Helen panicked. "Then what are we supposed to do? Your brother and sister start school in about ten days. Their tuition isn't paid yet—"

"What does that have to do with me? I'm not their mom." Reina cut her off. "I'm busy. Bye."

She ended the call.

Seeing her eldest daughter hang up, Helen exploded with anger. "That ungrateful brat! A backstabber! I raised her all these years, and now that she's older, she wants to dump us?"

Stella, sitting nearby, didn't look happy either. She had made a deal with someone. If she sent Reina to the Catgirl Club, they would give her an ability awakening potion.

If Reina never came home, the plan would fall apart.

No way. I have to get her back here.

Stella sent Reina a message: "Mom got sick because you made her upset. Come home and check on her. My brother and I don't need you to pay our tuition."

She hit send, but a red exclamation mark popped up.

Reina had blocked her.

Stella's face twisted with anger. After thinking for a moment, she grabbed her mom's smartwatch and tried sending a message too. Another red exclamation mark.

She gasped and turned to Helen. "Mom, Reina blocked both of us!"

"What?" Helen snatched the smartwatch back and tried sending a message herself. Another exclamation mark. She'd been blocked.

"That bastard!" Helen exploded in anger, her whole body shaking. "I should've raised a dog instead of her!"

Earlier, when she tried to transfer money from Reina's account, she found out Reina had removed the family link.

She didn't believe it at first and called her brother, who worked at the bank. He told her the family link had been removed a few days ago.

That damn brat was just like her father—cold-hearted and ungrateful.

As Helen screamed and cursed, a wave of fear hit her.

What should she do? If Reina stopped supporting them, who would the three of them rely on in the future?

How were Stella and Colton supposed to live?

The more she thought about it, the more she cried, crying as she complained about all the hardships she'd suffered.

Seeing her mom break down, Stella's eyes gleamed as she thought of something. "Mom, since she's being so heartless, why don't we settle this once and for all? We can trade her for enough retirement money to last a lifetime. You never have to deal with her attitude again."

Helen paused and wiped her tears. "What do you mean?"

Stella leaned closer and whispered, "I heard Catgirl Club pays a high price for young women with abilities. For someone like Reina, they'll pay 100,000 points."

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