Book 3: Chapter 50

“He has always hated me, no matter what I did, no matter how much I try, I can never get him to love me. Even to give me a single praise has always been hard for him. Only the other day has he ever praised me, telling me that my cooking is now almost as great as that of my mother. That was the only day he ever told me about her, the only day he ever mentioned her and that was because he wanted to tell me to stay away from Justin because Justin’s father is about to work with Stacy’s father and her father was the one that bought the shop he had rented for mom’s restaurant. I have always known that he hated me because my mother died giving birth to me. Aunt Gaia has always told me how loving a man he used to be, so I am not surprised. But hearing that he has always been thinking and wishing he had gotten rid of me, that was the last straw, Asher, am I really that hateful?” Naomi sobbed and Asher held her in his arms, “am I really that hateful?”

Asher said nothing and just held he