Chapter 91

91 Harmonious Family

“Mom, I’m home!” Kalea exclaimed, her eyes looking for her mother around the house.

“Lea?”

Kalea looked back, the corners of her lips lifted to reveal a sweet smile as usual and then approached her mother. “I’m home, Mom.”

“Okay, I just woke up,” Freya said as she opened the refrigerator and took a bottle of alcohol stored there.

“Mom, how about today we go outside again? For example, spa treatments for relaxation and also good for health,” Kalea said, looking excited with sparkling eyes.

“Huh? You have a lot of money, huh” Freya said, raising an eyebrow.

“I-I got paid overtime from work. My body is sore and I want to give it a try. So, do you want to come too?” Kalea offered again, she lied a little.

“When?”

“Hmm, right now?”

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Freya snorted in annoyance, she took a sip of her alcohol making Kalea’s heart skip a beat because her mother didn’t answer. The woman got up from her seat, and said, “Come on.”

Kalea’s worried expression has now turned into a happy one, as if there are scattered flowers in the background. She quickly changed clothes so as not to make her mother wait too long. And when they were ready, they went to pamper their bodies at a spa salon. Kalea chose a location that wasn’t too expensive like when she came with Zeline. She still pretends she doesn’t have much money in front of her mother for fear that Freya feels something is wrong and becomes suspicious of her daughter.

Then another reason was that she wanted to buy time so she wouldn’t remember what happened when she met Fred, especially if she saw Freya’s face. For some reason, there is a feeling of guilt that can’t be described in words. At least when refreshing outside and doing spa treatments, Kalea’s mind can be distracted and the burden she has been carrying all this time is slightly lifted.

Fortunately, there are two open slots without having to make a reservation from the start. They were both served by spa therapist who would do massages to make their bodies much more relaxed than before. This is indeed very suitable for Kalea and Freya.

Kalea glanced at her mother who seemed to really enjoy the treatment, the girl smiled in relief because she was finally able to make Freya little by little happier than before.

After all the treatments have been done, they are ready to go home. At first, Kalea wanted to invite her mother to eat at the restaurant, but Freya refused, she would rather eat at home, and the woman already looked sleepy, maybe because of the spa effect earlier.

Kalea stopped in her tracks just as they were about to leave the spa. She frowned, looking for the wallet that should have been in her bag.

“What happened?” Freya asked when Kalea was no longer walking behind her.

“Hold on, Mom, I left my wallet in the locker,” Kalea said as she ran slowly towards the locker room where she kept her belongings as people approached the spa room. She breathed a sigh of relief her wallet was still in there, she immediately went after her mother again.

However, there was a little fuss that made several people gather out of curiosity. Kalea didn’t really want to care, but she didn’t find Freya anywhere until she realized that the little fight that had become the center of attention was from her mother. Kalea approached Freya in a panic.

“Mom, what’s going on?” Kalea asked, holding her mother’s shoulder who looked very sad even her eyes were teary.

“You again?!”

Deg.

Kalea turned to the source of the voice, her eyes widening when she saw the person in front of her right now. Her lips even trembled, as if she couldn’t get the words out because she was so shocked.

“Fred, it’s me. You really left me for eleven years, I really-” Freya couldn’t continue her words when Fred approached Freya while pointing at the woman’s face disrespectfully.

“I have nothing to do with you anymore. After all, where did you get the money to get you here?! You owe? Now you guys get out of my sight, I’m really sick of being haunted by you guys,” Fred hissed with glaring eyes at Freya as well as Kalea. It was very clear that the man really hated his little family before he liked his workmate at that time and preferred his mistress.

Kalea glanced at the woman who had destroyed her family, the woman looked at Kalea and her mother with disgust. Her appearance is very classy like a woman who has high dignity even though she is only a cheap woman who dares to take someone else’s property.

Kalea’s body instantly froze when Fred now turned to look at her very sharply. “And you too! I told you not to see me again, now you’re actually bringing your mother to meet me, huh?” Fred asked very furiously.

With all her might and forcing herself, Kalea tried to deny the accusation, because she came purely to the spa location to relax her body, not to make her head dizzy because she had to meet the perpetrator who made both Kalea and Freya’s heads stressed and depressed. “What are you talking about? We don’t know if you are here, I just wanted to bring Mom a little refreshing!”

“You guys are really annoying. We’ve lived separately, I have absolutely no regrets about what I’ve done. So get away from me and never see us again,” Fred said emphatically.

After saying that, Fred left his ex-wife and his daughter. He walked hand in hand with his new wife, aka the mistress who had separated Kalea’s harmonious family. Kalea’s fists were very strong, the hatred for that woman was running high, plus Fred, who was being so heartless. It didn’t matter if Fred did something like that to her, but it was different if her mother accepted it.

Kalea stroked her mother’s back gently. “Mom, I know you are not okay and very shocked by this. But it is better if we go home first. Many people see us,” Kalea whispered as she led Freya out of the spa.

The girl with the brunette hair was very worried because the whole way her mother had been silent like a statue. Kalea, on the other hand, didn’t dare to ask for fear of Freya’s rage suddenly shifting to her.

Arriving at the house, Freya still didn’t want to make a sound and then walked towards the television room. “Lea, come here,” she ordered, causing Kalea to swallow her saliva roughly.

For some reason, Kalea’s feelings are bad.

With hesitant steps, Kalea walked over and decided to sit next to her mother. However, Freya instead told Kalea to sit on the floor facing the woman. The girl was getting more and more scared, because this kind of incident had happened quite often when she would be tortured by Freya every second.

“Answer honestly. So you’ve met your dad before?” Freya asked.

Kalea lowered her head, her hands were clenched into fists to restrain herself from being tortured by Freya at any time.

“Answer!” Freya snapped in a fairly high tone of voice.

“I-I didn’t mean to, Mom. I can’t tell Mom if-”

“So all this time you’ve had his contact or not? Freya asked again while lifting the child’s chin roughly so that he could look up at her.

“Not at all, Mom! I really just met my dad again at that time. Even though I told him how our condition was after he left, he didn’t care at all,” Kalea whispered, her chest tightened again because it was Fred who berated her again, plus her mother who at first didn’t know anything and had to remember the pain again.

Freya held her head, even slightly tugging at her hair which made Kalea worried about her mother’s current actions.

“Arrgh!” Freya shouted suddenly, then hit herself in the head several times. Kalea tried to hold her mother’s hand so as not to hurt herself continuously, but Freya’s strength was stronger and she was able to push her daughter to the floor. “Stay away from me, you son of a bitch! How could you not tell me when you met your dad! He’s still my husband, and will forever be my soulmate if no damn bitch snatches him away! Damn Fred, your dad is such a jerk!” Freya shouted more and more uncertainly, she continued to shout cursing at Kalea, Fred, and the mistress.

“Mom, please stop. Mom has become better, we can still be together just the two of us. I promise not to leave you,” Kalea said in the softest tone possible while holding the woman’s hand, hoping Freya’s anger would subside a little. However, what happened was that Kalea’s hair was grabbed by her mother again.

“This face, I’m really sick of your face that looks like Fred,” Freya hissed, patting Kalea on the cheek then slapping her back and forth.

Kalea screamed in pain, she couldn’t hold back her tears anymore because of the pain in her heart and the physical being tortured by Freya again. Kalea closed her eyes when her mother suddenly screamed very loudly and sounded frustrated. The girl couldn’t do anything if Freya went crazy like this, she could only sob with messy hair and her cheeks were red and sore.

“You two are the same! You are both a jerk and a liar! I really hate you to the end of my life!” Freya snapped.

Kalea shook her head quickly, she crawled and begged at her mother’s feet with tears streaming down her face. “No, Mom. I didn’t mean that at all. I just didn’t want to-l

“Shut up!”

Prangg!

Freya hit Kalea’s head with the alcohol bottle which was split in two. The alcohol bottle that Freya is holding at the bottom is very sharp because it has been divided into two parts, and has become a tool to injure her own biological child.

Freya didn’t look guilty at all, and was still looking at Kalea with hateful eyes.