Matthew could only hang his head, unable to argue.

“You’re a man, and you can’t even protect your mother? She raised Melanie, and this is how she’s repaid? Melanie, Melanie... Is the whole Murphy family indebted to her?”

My words were bitter, but I just couldn’t keep quiet at a time like this. How did I ever fall for such an idiot?

"Do you know how humiliated she has been her entire life? Her husband cheated on her right in front of her, keeping his mistress under the same roof. In the end,