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    Belinda, however, didn’t want to probe.


    Despite the tension between them easing in recent times, their rtionship stillcked the kind of closeness that gave her the right to ask about such things.


    Even so, she broke the silence. “Car,” she began gently, “you wanted to talk to me today… What do you want to discuss with me?”


    Car slowly came back to the present. She looked at Belinda, her tone measured.


    “I heard about the hormone injections you were forced to take as a child.”


    She paused, gauging Belinda’s reaction. In truth, she had known this for quite a while.


    And technically, it wasn’t her ce to care. Belinda was her husband’s illegitimate child; she shouldn’t have cared about her.


    Yet despite herself, this story had lingered in her mind. She felt a deep sense of empathy for Belinda.


    After much hesitation, she had invited Belinda to a meal, not to judge or use, but simply to offer a shred offort.


    As the subject surfaced, Belinda’s expression turned cold.


    Hershes fluttered once, and she said, “Don’t you think the matter is just… absurd?”


    Car sat straighter, her face solemn. “What Baker and Holley did was unforgivable. Their actions as parents were heartless, even cruel.”


    Then, her voice softened. “I know it’s hard, but… try not to be too upset about it.”


    Yet as the words left her mouth, even she could feel how powerless they were.


    How could someone not be upset about something like that?


    Belinda remained silent.


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    Her thoughts wandered back to something almostughable.


    She remembered how Holley had ndered and used Car in front of her, iming that Car might be the one asking people to inject her with the hormone shots.


    But it had been a lie.


    A bold, shameless, and deliberate lie.


    How could Holley have said such a baseless, brazen lie with so little shame?


    Belinda’s lips curled into a faint, ironic smile. There was no warmth in it, only quiet sorrow.


    Her voice was low when she spoke. “Tell me, Car… What kind of parent would willingly harm their own child like that?”


    Car found herself at a loss for words.


    She couldn’t help but wonder how anyone could be so cruel to their own child.


    If anyone treated her daughter that way, Car would never forgive them!


    So she didn’t understand how Holley and Baker could bring themselves to do that to their own child.


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