Chapter 42 Disgusting to her own mother

"I NEED to make a way!" Margaret uttered and glared at the front of the car.

Janice glanced at her mother as she drives the car. She has been cursing in anger. She still does not know why her father became very mad at her.

"That girl really is evil! I know she's the one who paid someone to watch my moves!" Margaret gritted her teeth and clenched her fists. That day when she went out to meet up with her friends, she was with Philip. She never thought that someone was following them and they were followed even inside the hotel.

"What did Nica do and Dad seemed to hate you very much?"

"She paid a person to follow my moves. That Philip is also irritating, he can't be stopped from his bad habits!"

Janice's forehead furrowed and she slightly slowed down the car. She did not get why her cousin was suddenly involved. The truth is, she does not know how Philip became her cousin. When her mother introduced the young man, they believed it. According to her mother, he is the nephew she had been looking for. She only knows her maternal family's story that she has a lost nephew.

"Where would I be at if it gets proved that I was cheating on your father?" Margaret asked Janice, she sounded problematic.

Janice was deafened by what she heard and she abruptly stopped the car. She did not notice the traffic light was red.

Margaret's face nearly kiss the dashboard of the car if she was not quick to grip there.

"What the…? You're not paying attention! Don't you see that my face is already full of contusions and you want it to have one more?" Margaret shouted at her daughter.

Janice ignored her mother's complaint. "What do you mean by cheating? You, you have an affair?" Janice asked her mother in disbelief.

Margaret was suddenly speechless and she averted her eyes from her daughter's questioning eyes.

"Answer me, Ma!" Janice could not stop her voice from rising. She cannot accept it if what she heard from her was true.

"Shut up and don't throw questions. Drive properly and I don't want to be in a grave first before your father!" She said irritably.

Janice closed her mouth and gripped the steering wheel. She stopped herself from speaking again because she did not know what she might say to her mother. Her mother did not speak again and she did the same. She called Nica and asked where they brought their father, but she was not answering.

"Dad, please fight! Remember, you said you'll make up with me!" Nica was crying as she talked to her father. He is still suffocating and he has difficulty in speaking.

"P-Promise me, don't let her succeed a-and continue to abuse you!" Stuttering, the man said. His head was resting on his daughter's lap and he keeps on fighting the darkness that is slowly engulfing his consciousness.

"Please don't speak for now so that your chest won't tighten more!" Nica said to her father as she worries about him. She fanned him using the magazine she saw in the car even though the air conditioner was on.

Chris drove faster as he keeps on pressing the car's horn so that the cars in the front would give way to them. Shorter than twenty minutes, they arrived at the nearest hospital.

Her father was brought in the operating room right away and they were left outside.

"Hush, God is good and He won't abandon Dad." Chris comforted Nica who keeps on crying. He hugged her and helped her take a seat on one of the chairs outside the emergency room.

Janice decided to admit her mother to a hospital room before she went to Nica. It would not be good if her mother will meet Nica because she still does not know the truth.

Nica just glared at Janice when she asked about their father's condition.

"Nica, please, just for Dad, let's put our misunderstandings aside for now," Janice asked.

Janice was very sad and she has no one to lean on, her mind is messy because of the unpleasant things that happened to her one after another. First, she was ashamed, now her parents' relationship has a chance to be ruined.

"Don't force her to talk to you for now," Chris said calmly to Janice. He pities her with her current situation, she seems to be in great distress. But his wife is more pitiful. Just when she and her father finally made up, he had a heart attack afterward.

They were discouraged when the doctor announced that Alfonso was comatose. They do not know when he would wake up.

"Everything is your mother's fault!" Nica shouted at Janice when the doctor left.

"I don't know what's happening," Janice said, crying as well.

"Your mother isn't just bad, she's also filthy and she dared to fool Dad! She's so disgusting, having an affair with someone much younger than her!"

Everyone who was there would look at them because of Nica's loud voice.

Janice covered her face with her palms as she shook her head. "That's not true!"

"Are you going to act forever that you don't know that your mother is having an affair with the person she introduced as her nephew?" She asked Janice sarcastically.

"Babe,

"Babe, you should talk about this in a private place," Chris whispered in his wife's ear as he stopped her from going near Janice.

Janice's palms moved to her ears and she could not accept the truth that she just heard. Her face was full of tears and she looked at Nica in disbelief.

"I don't know! What you're saying isn't true!" Janice sobbed and ran away from Nica. Her mind is so confused and she felt ashamed of herself in front of Chrismith.

"I'm sorry that you got dragged into my family's mess," Nica said sadly when her anger has died down.

"Your family is my family now, too," Chris said. They entered the I.C.U room where her father was lying. Tubes are attached to his body and the oxygen concentrator and electrocardiogram machine are noisy.

"I want to jail them!" Nica muttered and the anger she felt was in her voice as she watched her sleeping father.

Chris nodded in response to his wife. He had asked the police to arrest Philip. He hugged his wife and made her feel that she was not alone.

"How could you do this to Dad, 'Ma?" Janice asked her mother with resentment when she woke up. They are still in the hospital and she was injected with a sleeping drug earlier.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Margaret averted her eyes.

"In all my life, I believed in you and do everything you wanted me to. I thought you were the best mom and wife. I thought that..." she hiccupped and she could not verbalize what was on her mind.

Margaret immediately averted her eyes from the intent look of her daughter.

She looked at her mother, disgusted. "I thought..." she sobbed before she continued speaking. "But you're worse than a prostitute! You're the real slut and not Nica's mother!"

Margaret gave Janice a strong slap on the cheek. She admits that what she did was like that, but she could not accept those words from her own daughter.

Instead of groaning in pain, Janice laughed bitterly. Her opinion on her mother now did not go back to what it used to be.

"I'm still your mother and if it's not because of me, you wouldn't experience a luxurious life!" Margaret said angrily at her daughter.

"I hope you weren't my mother, though," Janice said in a low voice and her lips formed a bitter smile.

"Don't you know how to feel indebted?!" Margaret shouted angrily. "I did everything so that your father's love is all yours!"

"Is the love of that one you introduced as my cousin included in the things you want me to have?" She asked in an insulting manner.

Margaret's tongue suddenly backed out because of her daughter's question. She now admits that she became abusive of the wealth she has. She was confident that no one would know about her fondness for young men. She met him in a casino and provided him everything a person needs. At first, she just wanted to use him against Nica. But she was seduced by his seduction and money is the exchange.

"Because of your greediness that you want me to inherit, everything will disappear like a bubble!" Janice criticized her mother.

"I also became greedy and I wasn't contented in what I can do. You taught me to be a stealer of others' work because you want me to always be looked up to by others!" Janice continued.

Margaret seems to have come back to her senses and she pitied her daughter. She looked like she loses her dignity. Her confidence in herself disappeared and she looks hopeless.

"What will happen to me now?" She asked her mother.

"What face will I make in front of everyone when they find out that my mother is filthy? I, who was the stealer of my own sister's design and now, a daughter of a sugar mommy of whom they knew as her nephew?"Janice asked and laughed bitterly.

"There's not enough evidence of their accusation so don't exaggerate." Margaret was not sure about it, but she needs to calm her daughter. The both of them should not get pulled down.

"What else lies can you make, to escape this?" She sneered. She has lost her trust in her, even her respect has decreased.

"I can surely backfire your sister, but your father shouldn't be brought back to good health immediately." She saw a bit of hope when she remembered that Alfonso's condition is not good at the moment.

Janice stepped backward as she shook her head. She does not want to hear her mother's next plan, which is something bad against her father.

"If you won't help me, you'll also go down. Do you think your father will still love you and you can still stay in the house of that woman?" Margaret threatened Janice.

"Do you still have a heart, Ma?" She asked her mother sadly. When she was still little and they were living in a simple house, she was not like that. Everything just changed when they lived in Nica's house.

Margaret threw the pillow at the floor when Janice did not want to listen to her. She left her there alone and she did not think about her condition. Even though her body still hurts, she forced herself to stand up and go out. She intended to go to Alfonso's room, but Chris blocked her way.