Chapter 174 You’re Cruel, Mirabel!

“He came to the house before he died. I poisoned his food and when he was driving it triggered his heart attack. He crashed and died.” “I just wanted to be free and I couldn't banish the image of the other man I've ever loved. His body was charred beyond recognition.” “Your father mocked him and confessed to me how he had killed him one night when he was drunk. He said that’s how he'd kill anyone who ever looked at me twice.” “I felt caged, trapped. I needed to breathe air and be alive, feel alive. So I killed him to set myself free.” “Mirabel isn't going to kill me. She's not capable of hurting a fly,” Chase had managed to voice out. But his mother laughed derisively, “True, but she's capable of destroying herself just to be free. She'd rather die than stay trapped.” Chase replayed he and his mother’s conversation in his mind over and over again. He didn't want to imagine what she had gone through having to do what she did. He also didn't want Mirabel to get to that point. He