"I'm not just saying you and Lauren can't be together," Tiana snapped, her voice cold as ice. "I have to kill you, then hunt down that bastard Reginald and make sure he regrets everything!"

Andrew sighed, completely speechless. "Mrs. Rhodes, come on… that's a bit much, don't you think? If you've got beef with my dad for what he did back then, fine. But take it out on him, not me—I didn't do anything."

Tiana let out a dark laugh. "You're his son. Since I can't find him, of course, I'm going to take it out on you!"

Andrew watched her cycle from smug satisfaction to explosive rage, then fall into wounded nostalgia again. He could not even stay mad anymore—there was no point.

Honestly, she was not evil. She was just a woman trapped in the past, tormented by a love that never got closure.

He asked, "Mrs. Rhodes, when you attacked me earlier, you weren't really trying to kill me, were you?"

Tiana snorted. "I said it already—you saved our family; I'm not ungrateful. I struck fi