Chapter 3: Visiting Grandma


    I knew that Grandma had been in poor health in recent years and was staying at the Jones family''s


    home. I parked the car outside the vi and rang the doorbell.


    Mary, the maid, opened the door for me. She was surprised to see me and chattered on about how


    Grandma kept bringing me up recently.


    I could feel myself starting to tear up as I listened to her chatter. I took the snacks I had bought for


    Grandma from the boot of my car and followed Mary into the vi.


    It was both familiar and strange to me. After all, I had stayed here for a few years, but it had never


    provided me with a sliver of warmth.


    I was just about to head upstairs when a shrill voice stopped me.


    "You little b*tch, who allowed you toe here?"


    I did not need to look back to know that it wasing from my stepmother, Gail Sampson, a caustic


    woman with a heart of malice.


    To this day, I did not understand how my father, Bell Jones, had fallen for her. In fact, Gail used to be


    my mother''s best friend, but that had not stopped her from stealing my mother''s husband.


    There was a lot of bad blood between Gail and me. She had been giving me a beating when she was


    pregnant with her second child and had identally fallen down the stairs. It had resulted in a


    miscarriage.


    Therefore, she had always regarded me as the murderer of her son, as did my father. It was because


    of this that they both loathed me and thought of me as their nemesis.


    It was also due to this that I was forced to move out of the Jones family and fend for myself when I was


    barely sixteen years old.


    I had to go through much suffering and hardship to make ends meet while trying toplete my


    education.


    ...


    I turned around and nced at Gail disdainfully. "Do I need your permission toe back to my own


    home to visit my grandmother?"


    "Mary, you''re out of here if you ever let rubbish like that in again!"


    Gail knew that I did not fear her and would not hold back if things got physical, so she turned to shriek


    at Mary instead.


    Mary was so terrified that she immediately bowed her head obsequiously. It was obvious that Gail


    regrly mistreated the servants.


    "Alright, that''s enough! What''s all the noise for? I asked Queena toe because Mum wants to see


    her!"


    As we quarreled, the door to one of the rooms upstairs suddenly swung open. My aunt, Nancy Jones,


    stood there, looking down at us with dissatisfaction.


    Aunt Nancy was a domineering woman and Gail did not dare take things too far under her watch. She


    could only re at me ferociously.


    "You little b*tch, I''ll let you off the hook for now since Phoebe''s fiancé ising. I''ll make you pay for


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    I ignored her and continued up the stairs, but I could not help pondering over her words.


    My two-faced snake of the stepsister, Phoebe Jones, was getting married? What would her fiancé be


    like?


    I walked into the room and saw Grandma lying on the bed. Her hair had gonepletely white, and


    she looked pale and haggard.


    However, when she saw me, she immediately perked up and looked at me lovingly.


    Grandma came from an affluent family and was a well-educated, well-mannered, and independent


    woman.


    "Queena, you''re here. It''s been ages since Ist saw you. Oh, how I''ve missed you..."


    "Grandma, I''ve been wanting toe to see you, but..."


    "That''s enough. I know..."