Chapter 4

“Mommy!”

Leo’s tiny, tear-streaked face appeared on camera, sobbing.

“Leo, did Daddy bring you here?”

I had specifically told my best friend not to involve the child in this.

Could my friend have…

“Mommy! Grandma really did run into Ms. Ashley’s car on purpose!”

My pupils constricted.

The online viewers grew even more displeased:

[Chloe, look at what you've done! Such a young child forced to face all this!]

[Even her child is speaking out, Chloe! Are you still going to be delusional? This is your own son!]

I tightened my grip on the knife:

“Leo, that’s your Grandma! The Grandma who sang you lullabies, the Grandma who broke her own leg chasing off a kidnapper to save you!”

Leo cried:

“Grandma really said she was going to stage an accident with Ms. Ashley! Leo isn’t lying! Leo really isn’t lying! Mommy, please let Ms. Ashley go, okay?”

Alex pulled Leo into his arms:

“Chloe! Are you going to doubt even your own child’s words?!”

I gritted my teeth:

“What did you teach him to say?”

[??? Seriously, does she have a mental illness?]

[Finally, I know where those idiotic male leads who never believe the female protagonist in novels come from. Art truly imitates life.]

“Chloe! If you won’t listen to Leo, who *will* convince you?!”

Alex was righteously indignant.

I just grabbed Ashley’s hair, forcing her ravaged face towards the camera.

The knife tip gently grazed her skin. I chuckled:

“Alex, did you think that all this time during the appeals, I hadn’t noticed you secretly messaging her at night?”

Alex’s eyes widened suddenly.

“Fourth chance, gone!”

I raised the knife high above Ashley’s left eye.

“Mommy!!”

Leo held up a letter:

“Grandma told me to give you this before she left!”

The knife tip stopped less than a millimeter from Ashley’s eyeball.

“Mom?”

I stared in disbelief at the letter Leo offered.

It clearly stated that Mom, unable to bear the torment of cancer, planned to leave this world in such a manner.