novelxo Chapter 12
Chapter 12
From a young age, Delilah always found herself at the center of her friends*
playful jests whenever she brought her daughter around her besties. They would
tease her incessantly, scrutinizing her and her daughter's faces, joking
suggesting that maybe there had been a mix-up at the hospital because the child
bore no resemblance to her.
It wasn't as though her daughter wasn't attractive. Quite the contrary. All of
Delilah’s children had been cherubic in their youth. Yet Summer, when compared
with her older brothers, seemed remarkably plain, compounded by the fact that
both Delilah and her husband were exceptionally good-looking. This only fueled
further teasing from her friends.
As Delilah reminisced, there was a painful truth to those playful words. Shaking
off her wandering thoughts, she softly called out. “Mira.”
Mirabella’s expression remained as impassive as ever, lacking the excitement
one might expect upon seeing one’s birth parents. She merely nodded a polite
greeting.
Seeing Mirabella’s frosty demeanor, Summer quickly jumped in to explain, “Mom,
Mira just got back from the countryside. She might need some time to get used to
everything again.”
Delilah had encountered Mirabella a few months prior and had sensed her
withdrawn nature. So, while she felt a twinge of disappointment that Mirabella
didn't call her “mom,“ she wasn’t particularly surprised. After all being mistakenly
switched at birth and raised by the Gilbert family in a quaint town before returning
to her biological family was bound to require an adjustment period. Patience was
key.
Delilah couldn't help but cast a complicated glance at Summer, with a fleeting
shadow crossing her face. She quickly masked it with an indifferent smile.
“Summer, you've been such a dear, going to the airport to fetch Mira. It's getting
late, and your biological parents must be wondering about you. They'll be upset if
they know you're here.”
She paused, then turned to her eldest son. “Emmitt, would you mind taking Ms.
Summer home?”
The shift from “Summer to “Ms. Summer flushed Summer's cheeks with
embarrassment. She opened her mouth to protest. “Mom...”
Delilah looked at Summer with a hidden ache but didn’t let it show. Collecting her
thoughts, Delilah’s smile seemed to grow more distant. She cut Summer off
before she could say anything. “From now on, it might be best if you address me
as Ms. Delilah.”
Mirabella’s eyebrows raised slightly in surprise.
Delilah carried herself with an air of grace and composure. Although she was in
her fifties, she looked no more than in her thirties, with barely a wrinkle to betray
her age. Despite her smile, there was an undeniable strength in her demeanor- a
commanding presence rarely seen in ordinary women.
Mirabella watched thoughtfully, her gaze introspective.
Feeling a deep sense of humiliation, Summer bit her lip as her eyes misted over.
Her face seemed,to bear the weight of a great injustice. She couldn't understand
how the woman who had once doted on her could suddenly become so cutting,
all because her biological daughter had returned. If that was the case, it seemed
a cruel hypocrisy. Summer felt deceived.
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Cough, cough,” Shawn, who had
been silent, cleared his throat and
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spoke up. “Emmitt, please take
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Summer home.” His words, meant to
break the ice, only seemed to
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Emmitt nodded in agreement, though
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he didn’t understand why his parents
P : P
wouldn't let Summer stay. He didn't
ask any questions- after all, she was
now considered the heiress to the
illustrious Gilbert family, a status not
to be taken lightly, and the Gilberts
were known to be a tough crowd. The
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