Eevonne smiled and said miserably," Actually, I have long wanted to argue with my mother. I never understood why she loved my cousins more than my brother and I since we were children. I don't understand why she would look down on her own children. Since she looked down on me so much, why was I the one who needed to take care of all her expenses when she got sick? Why didn't your nephew and nieces pay for you? My family was so poor when I was still a child! We were so poor that we couldn't even have enough to eat. However, when my cousin came over, my mother would purposely go out to buy ham for him. Later, I asked my mother and I told her that my brother and I really wanted to have ham as well. But my mother raised her hand and slapped me until my face was swollen. While she slapped me, she kept scolding me for being a glutton! However, Kingston, do you know? My mother had been looking down on us since childhood, and when she brought us to my grandmother's house, she would treat us with all sorts of disrespect. Has she ever thought of the feelings of my brother and me?"
Kingston felt a mixed feeling. There were all sorts of parents in this world. If there were parents who cared for their children very much, there would be parents who did not care about their children at all. That was nothing strange.
"Could it be that she doesn't love you and your brother at all?" Kingston asked.
Eevonne smiled. "If I were to say that she doesn't love us, then it wouldn't make sense as well. When I got sick, for example, or when my brother got sick, she was quite worried and anxious as well. I remember when I had chickenpox that one time, I was burning with a high fever. However, my family did not have money for me to get treatment. My father asked her to first borrow a little money from her brother. My mother, who was originally feeling sorry for me and carrying me in her arms while crying, suddenly threw me to the ground and started having a fight with my father. She said my father was lazy, didn't know how to enjoy life, and didn't know how to make money. She said the members of the York family were all lazy pigs and so on. She just cursed at us. When she started cursing at us, she completely ignored me, who was wailing after she threw me on the floor. Later, it was after she got tired from fighting that she saw me crying and sitting on the floor. In an instant, my mother vented all of her anger on me. My fever was very severe back then. However, she didn't care about my fever at all, and she pinched and pulled my ears upward. I was in so much pain that I bawled even louder. However, my mother still could curse at me. That was the love my mother had for us. She truly does feel sorry, but she also was very hot-tempered. When she lost her temper, she wouldn't even care whether my brother and I lived or died at all."
Kingston looked at her in disbelief. "How could your mother be like that?"
Eevonne sighed miserably. "She has always been like that. Marrying my father did not make her happy at all. My father truly isn't ambitious as well. He is really lazy. Her life was not as good as her siblings. When it’s necessary, she has to care about her dignity as well, so it was only natural that everything was not how she wanted. Therefore, she would lash out at my brother and me from time to time. What she said the most often was that if my brother and I didn't exist, she would have long divorced my father."
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