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Just as the wet towel was about to smother my mouth and nose, the bedroom door burst open with a deafening crash.
Mom stood in the doorway, flanked by several men in sharp suits. It was Mr. Wallace and our security team. Her eyes were blazing,
fixed on me dangling from the boy’s hand, and on the towel poised to end my life.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Her voice was a raw, trembling shriek.
The six boys froze, their faces pale with terror. The eldest’s hand went slack, and I dropped onto the soft carpet below.
Oof, my butt! Mom, they were trying to suffocate me!
Mom rushed forward, her face a mask of anguish as she scooped me into her arms.
The old hag was the first to recover. She threw herself onto the floor and began to wail, slapping her thighs for dramatic effect.“– Oh, the injustice! We were just playing with the baby, and you treat us like criminals! You’re trying to frame us!”
The eldest quickly joined in. “Mom, it’s a misunderstanding! We just thought she looked uncomfortable and wanted to help her
change position!”
“Yeah, yeah!” another one added. “The towel was to wipe her face! She was drooling!”
They tripped over each other with their pathetic, flimsy excuses.
I was so enraged I blew a raspberry at them.
Lying sacks of shit! One minute you’re trying to murder me, the next you’re innocent little angels!
Mom’s expression grew dangerously cold.
Just then, Landon rushed in. Seeing the scene, he immediately tried to play peacemaker.
“Renee, calm down. It’s all a misunderstanding.” He moved to shield the six boys with his own body. “Mina is the baby of the family. Her brothers adore her. They would never hurt her. They must have just been playing a game.”
The six little monsters nodded eagerly. “Yes, Mom! We love our sister more than anything!”
Looking at his deceitful face, I kicked my legs in fury.
Love me? You love me so much you want to suffocate me and turn me into a vegetable? Landon; are you blind or just stupid?
Mom, show them the evidence! Shove it in their smug faces!
Mom ignored them all. She took a tablet from Mr. Wallace and played a video.
On the screen, clear as day, was the footage of the old hag and the six boys plotting to disable me, to smother me, their vicious
words and cruel expressions captured in high definition.
The old woman’s wailing choked in her throat.
The boys‘ faces turned the color of ash.
Landon’s face twisted, not with shock at their cruelty, but with fury directed at my mother.
“Renee! You put cameras in the house? You don’t even trust me?”
Only an idiot would trust you. I told Mom to install them weeks ago. I knew you were all up to no good!
His shamelessness made my mother tremble with rage. She hurled the tablet at him. “If I trusted you, my daughter would be dead
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right now at the hands of your precious sons!”
“Landon, take your disgusting sons and your vile mother, and get out of my house! Now!”
He still tried to reason with her. “Renee, they were just being foolish. They’re only kids…”
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“SHUT UP!” she roared, cutting him off. She threw a thick file at his face. “This is proof of you embezzling company funds, giving
jobs to your useless relatives, and outsourcing projects to your cousin’s shell company.”
“You have two choices. Either they get out.”
“Or you get out with them!”
Landon’s eyes widened in horror as he looked at the documents. He hesitated, his jaw working, before finally turning to his sons
and mother.
“You… you should all go stay somewhere else for a while.”
The old hag’s eyes bulged. “Landon! You’re kicking us out for this bitch?” She lunged forward and slapped him hard across the face “You ungrateful pig!”
Landon dragged her into a corner, hissing under his breath. “Mom, just go with them for a few days! Once I calm Renee down, I’ll bring you all back!”
Reluctantly, they began to gather their things. As the old hag passed my mother, she spat on the floor.
“You can have your little victory for now. We’ll see how long it lasts! A barren woman who can’t even produce a son! You’ll be begg-
ing us to come back soon enough!”
Begging for what? Mom has me, and that’s all she needs. I’ll personally escort you to the crematorium one day, you old witch!
Mom didn’t waste her breath. With a wave of her hand, our bodyguards stepped forward and snatched the suitcases from their
hands.
“Nothing in this house belongs to you.”
“You will not take a single thing that I paid for.”
The old hag shook with fury. The six boys glared at us with murderous intent. In the end, it took all of Landon’s pleading to finally
get the vermin out of our house.
