I smiled and didn't say anything else.
Mila hugged my mom and assured her with a delicate voice. "Mom, don't worry. When I'm rich, I will certainly not forget you, and I will buy you whatever you want!"
Hearing this, my mother immediately touched her face, as intimate with her as ever. "Good, good. You're the sweetest. What a lovely thing to say."
I felt it ironic and looked away from their smiling faces.
In this life, I would wait to see them get what they fucking deserved.
With my mother's permission, Mila bought an early morning flight the next day to meet Luke in another city.
Everything was the same as it had been in my previous life.
After Mila got there, she kept sending us pictures in the chat group for four or five days in a row.
She showed off where Luke had taken her and what he had bought her.
Until the seventh day.
Just like in my previous life, Mila proudly and ostentatiously invited me and my mother to enjoy the money.
But to her surprise, I rejected her again and again.
Mila finally lost her cool. "Lainey, Luke says you don't want to come because you are still suspicious of him. I've already sent so much evidence. He's not a liar! Why don't you believe me?"