Take Control of Yourself, Please novel (Anna and Liam) novel Chapter 287

Chloe pressed a palm over her mother's mouth.

"Mom! Lower your voice!"

Nicole nodded, her expression harrowing. She lowered her voice and whispered, "He came to see you?"

"Yes! I'm so scared! Mom, what should we do?"

Nicole was flustered too as she paced around the room nervously.

"Don't panic, don't panic. Tell me, how did he appear? And why did he want to see you?"

Chloe sucked in a deep breath and reiterated the days' happenings to her mother. "Mom, you need to think of a way! I gave him a thousand dollars, and the card is already expired but I lied saying there’s money inside. I couldn't have chased him away otherwise!

Once he realizes there's no money in the card, with his personality, he won't forgive me!"

Nicole’s face turned pale as a ghost, "He knows you're marrying into the Dawson family, he'll definitely stick to you like a vampire!"

Nicole was at a loss too, the more she thought about it, the more panicked she felt, "Why would he come here? How could he come here!"

After she married Bruce all those years ago, she found out he was a gambler, even losing all her dowry to gambling.

She wanted to divorce him but couldn't, every time she wanted to sneak away he would catch her and beat her up, even forcing her to sell herself to repay his gambling debts, after that he even...

"Wasn't he given a life sentence in jail? How come he’s released now, all of a sudden?" Chloe asked.

Nicole buried her face in her hands, and said painfully, "He hates me, he's taking revenge on me!

He promised me he will never come again!"

"What? Mom, have you seen him before?" Chloe was reminded of the incident when her mother stole the pair of cufflinks, "Could it be you did that to raise money for him?"

Her mother nodded, "He has finished all the money already? He must be taking drugs again!

Finally, after all these years, I'm living a good life now, and again he’s back to cause me trouble! When can I ever escape from his evil clutches?"

She shook her head non-stop, "I can’t let the public know about my past! I am Mrs. Hamilton, even though I'm not the daughter of a rich family, at least I am a good wife and loving mother!"

"Why does he keep coming back to cause us trouble? And right at the time when you're marrying into the

Dawson family!” Nicole was at a loss, feeling panicked and helpless.

"He promised me he would leave and never come back!”

Seeing her mother's emotional breakdown, Chloe grew anxious too, "Mom! Calm down! We have to keep our wits about us! We can’t let Daddy realize something is wrong! Otherwise, we'll have to leave this family for real!

We can't let Bryan know of Bruce Walker's existence."

"I know, Chloe, but he's not only here for money. I was the reason he was jailed all those years ago, I know he's back to take revenge on me!”

"Then what should we do? I just got pregnant with Bryan's child, we're getting married soon, I won’t let him ruin this for me." Chloe was losing her control over the situation. 1

"Mom, how did you get him into jail? Maybe we can do it again!”

"Do you know how big of a risk I took? Now we are both women with status, we'll be greatly restricted in anything we do. Besides, he must have his guard up around me. The same method won't work again."

"There's nothing we can do now?" Chloe fell on the sofa, face as pale as a ghost.

Her deepest memories as a child were when he would come home after drinking, she and her mother held onto each other and hid under the table in fear, but were still unable to escape from the terrible beatings...

Chloe's face turned paler by the second.

"No! I won't live that life again! I am Chloe Hamilton and the future Mrs. Dawson!

I've spent so much time and effort in cultivating my relationship with Bryan, no one can take it away from me! Even if he's my biological father, I won't allow it!” Chloe caressed her stomach, eyes shining determinedly.