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Her mother's death is a painful memory to her. She loved and adored her mother so much that her passing away became a trauma.

The car drove fast and arrived at the dark cemetery. The door was locked showing that they had already closed.

“Be careful out there, call me if anything goes wrong ” Olivia opened the door and helped Alexa get down from the car.

She placed a mink coat on her shoulders and some glasses on her face and waved goodbye.

Alexa fidgeted as she went into the cemetery. She strode past the graves of other people and reached to her mother's own.

The tomb was decorated with tulip flowers, her mother's favorite flower. She crouched down in front of the tomb.

“I am back, mother ” She removed the mink coat on her shoulders and spread it on her bare feet.

The cold breeze blew on her legs and arms and she shivered.

“Mother ” She called out again and placed her hands in the middle of the tomb.

Alexa's eyes became watery as she called her name for the second time.

She would never forget how her mother drowned in the pool and was left to die by her uncle.

The incident felt fresh in her memory, The day of her birthday, April 24th.

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Flashback, Last 12 years.

“Lexa, Happy birthday!” Her mother,Taylor Wilson smiled and twirled Alexa's arms in the air.

“Mom! I am grown up. If you keep doing this, I won't come home again ” The seventeen years old girl giggled.

“I forgot my baby is all grown up now but in my heart, you will still be my little child ” She dragged her into the kitchen and covered her eyes.

She used her other hand to get the cake from the freezer.

“Here you go! I heard you always wanted a big cake so I got it for you ” Taylor used the knife to cut the cake in half and handed one to Alexa.

“Thanks. You always know what I want .” Alexa hugged her mom tightly and placed a kiss on her cheeks.

She looked around the villa and so did not find the person she was looking for, she sadly uses her fork to pick her cake.

“Why is dad not back from Canada?” She spoke after a while

Her childhood was either spent with her mother or at school. Her father was never a permanent person in her existence and she became quite used to it.

“There was a rush over there and he had to stay another month there. He will be back beside you, right?” She snuggled her nose with her fingers.

“Yes I do ”

“That reminds me, I have something else for you. Stay right here, I will be back!”

Alexa watched the retreating shadow of her mother and ate the cake.

Meanwhile, In Her Room.

“Where did I keep that necklace?” She bent down and opened a brown drawer. “Here is it ”

She picks it up and looks at the jade pendant on the necklace.

“Alexa, I found it!” She smiled and turned to leave the room when ParkerAndrew walked in drunk.

He smelt like a dirty rat. He has a beer bottle in his hand. His clothes were all torn and dirty.

“Andrew?” She was shocked and moved a little back from him. She sniffed his clothes and shrieked.

“You drank?”

“Yes, I did .” He held her arms and dragged her into a hug. He rested his head on her neck and coughed.

“Taylor, please come back to me! My brother does not love you!” He sobs and tightens the hug.

Taylor struggled to pull out of the hug because of his strong grip.

“Andrew, let go of me, I beg you!” Taylor angrily says as she steps on his feet.

The talk she always avoided. Why did she choose someone who did not love her at all over one who cherished her with his life?

“What do you see in him that I do not have?! Tell me!”

Andrew shouted at the top of his voice, making Taylor tremble.

“What does he have?”

“Is it his hair?”

“His looks?”

“His voice?”

“Tell Me!” He shook her violently.

“Andrew, I have to go!” She blankly said.

“I loved you so much and yet you chose him over me! He rejected you tons of times and yet you got pregnant for him!”

“When you were in labor, he never set his eyes on you yet you let him hold your child!”

He mentioned it coldly and Taylor's cheeks were filled with tears.

The worst mistake she committed in her life was marrying someone who never loved or cherished her!

However, she wished and hoped for him to love her back because she could not get herself away from him.

She was in love with him to the extent that she slept with him and got pregnant for him.

“Andrew, please stop!” Taylor cried out when she could no longer hold the tears in her eyes.

All her life mistakes came to haunt her. Her parents rejected her when she got pregnant.

He was never the right choice for her but she chose him which made her parents cut off from her.

“He scolded you for no reason and you did not have any complaints”

“He beat you so many times and you had no one to turn to you ”

“Look at now, His child is turning seventeen and he has not come back! Taylor, you are so sorrowful!”

When he noticed she cried, he stopped and looked at her. He wrapped his hands around her shoulders and let her son on his shoulders.

“I am sorry, I did not mean what I said ”Andrew comforted her.

“Leave my house! Just leave!” Taylor balled her fist and pointed at the door.