Chapter 494. Mom

LILY

“Guards!” my mother screamed, ordering them to hold me so I couldn’t move.

It was a cruel joke to me. The mirror Horace gave me shattered into a thousand pieces on the floor when they grabbed me forcefully to immobilize me.

“Mom…” I started to say, unable to understand what was happening.

“Lily?” she asked, looking at me with doubt and confusion. She had that same expression of incomprehension and victimhood in her eyes. “No… It can’t be…”

She stammered, staring at me fixedly, with a mix of disgust and unease. She hadn’t recognized me. So much time had passed. I was a girl when I left home and now, as a woman, not even my own mother recognized my face.

“You’re different, daughter… Oh…” she let out a moan and burst into tears, ordering the guards to release me immediately. She jumped on me to hug me, squeezing me tightly in her arms.

She held me against her as she cried. My mother was hugging me. I was motionless and speechless. The even