Chapter 646

Inevitably, Chelsea harbored resentment toward Yolanda when she found out about the truth. She was human, after all. Anyone would be greatly moved by a stranger's act of kindness; yet when the giver was a family member, one would take it for granted or even demand more. Indeed, she had lamented, "I'm her daughter too. Why couldn't I grow up as freely as Megan did? I wouldn't have lived so awfully for 20 years if she hadn't deserted me," but that was only for a fleeting moment. Perhaps she would hold a grudge toward her mother if she were another woman, but she was Yolanda. She simply couldn't resent her. Yolanda was the one who extended a hand during her most hopeless moments. Knowing the depths of Yolanda's altruism—evident in how far she went to help a random child in the village—she believed that Yolanda would never abandon her daughter. Instead, she believed she was abducted. If that was the case, the rat demon was wrong then. "I didn't suffer for 20 years because of her; I d