Chapter 78

• It was wild. I didn’t expect to be thanked but I did not imagine I’d be slapped for getting her daughter to safety as soon as I could. Why did she take one look at her daughter and decide that I, a heavily pregnant woman, would have hurt her?
• “Mum, stop,” Irene said, her tone barely above a whisper when her mother grabbed a hold of me.
• It wasn’t enough that she had slapped me, she was now trying to shake me to get me to speak but I didn’t. I was too stunned to speak. My cheeks stung. My face was hot and something inside of me was rising in temperature. Asia growled curses and my heart beat fast as hell yet I could not believe I had just been slapped, and so hard!