"Mom! I am your daughter. How can you not believe me? Eric having an affair is a fact. I have already saved his face by not making a scene. When dad had an affair, you should understand that feeling. How could you hide it from me?"
My mother exchanged glances with Eric, and then, she stood up and pointed at me, cursing.
"Good! Bailey Nelson, how dare you talk to your mother like this? Eric could never do such a thing. It must be your good friend Anna who photoshopped these pictures. How could you, my silly girl, believe a stranger?"
"Mom, if you don't believe it, Anna still has a video. We can watch it together and see which woman has such great charm to seduce your good son-in-law to go to her every day."
Although she was my stepmother, I had already regarded her as my real mother after twenty years.
Maybe she had also been blinded by Eric's love. After all, Eric used to be nice to me.
But I didn't expect that even though I presented her with the facts, she could still argue and even blame me.
"Well... that's because you don't want children. You two have been married for so many years, and you're busy with work. It's normal for a man like Eric to have desires and do such things. As his wife, can't you understand him a little bit?
"Anyway, I don't agree with your divorce. If you dare to divorce, I won't recognize you as my daughter. Get out of here!"
My heart shook. She actually told me to get out for Eric's sake?
She was my father's second wife. She had always been good to me, and I had always seen her as my real mother.
Even when my dad had a mistress, I stood by her side, blaming my dad and fearing that she would not be able to bear it, accompanying her day and night.
I regarded her plans for my life as her love for me as a mother, and I even went to see the men she introduced me, including Eric.
I didn't have many feelings for Eric, but the long time he had been good to me had made me get used to his presence.
As for children, it was Eric who said that he didn't want any. Why did my mother end up thinking I didn't want kids?
Is it my fault that he cheated on me? Men's desires, huh?!
I wanted to cry, but I couldn't for some reason.
"Mom, do you see me as your child?"