My Future Self Exposed My Mom’s Secret Sacrifice Chapter 09

My Future Self Exposed My Mom’s Secret Sacrifice Chapter 09

On the drive back to the Voss Family Estate, I couldn’t hold back my question any longer.

“When did you find out Liora wasn’t Kian’s biological daughter?”

Seraphina answered gently, her tone calm and collected.

I ordered full background investigations the second my private jet touched down stateside.

Everything clicked into place for me instantly.

You’d planned every step of your retaliation long before you walked into that boardroom.

I stared at her with complete admiration, yet a sharp wave of heartache washed over me at the same

time.

This brilliant, powerful woman had nearly died a miserable death ten years in the future, all because she’d sacrificed everything to save me.

Seraphina noticed the sorrow clouding my expression, brushing a tender palm over my hair, eyes glistening with guilt and love.

This is all my fault. I should’ve brought you overseas to live with me instead of leaving you here.

I never should’ve trusted Kian and Jasper to look after you-you suffered through years of unfair hardship alone.”

I broke down into tears, throwing myself into her arms and spilling every detail of the video call I’d received from my future self a long time ago.

Seraphina’s eyes flooded with tears the second she finished listening to my story.

Her first reaction wasn’t relief that we’d avoided that tragic future-it was searing rage over all the pain I’d endured.

“How could they treat their own blood this cruelly? They tormented you for three endless years without a single shred of remorse.”

You must’ve been so lonely and hurt through every hard day.”

I leaned my head against her shoulder, finally grasping the true meaning of unconditional love.

To love someone deeply means to ache for every wound they’ve carried, even after those wounds

have long since stopped hurting.

Drowning in overwhelming guilt over everything I’d endured, Seraphina set out to spoil me

endlessly to make up for every lost year.

She purchased dozens of luxury estates across every continent with a single phone call.

Multiple exclusive tier-one private banking cards were placed in my name as well.

She dragged me to every haute couture fashion runway show imaginable.

If my gaze lingered even a second longer on any runway gown, the piece would be shipped to our estate via private charter jet the very next morning.

I sat beside her sipping iced tea in the sun-dappled garden one afternoon, watching the endless stream of luxury deliveries roll in, feeling a twinge of awkwardness.

“Mom, isn’t all of this a little overly extravagant?”

Seraphina smiled with effortless grace and warmth.

Every asset I own will be yours one day, my darling girl-there’s no such thing as spoiling my heir

too much.”

I stared at her in stunned surprise.

She laughed softly at my shocked reaction.

From the moment I held you after your birth, I made up my mind you’d inherit every part of my business empire.

That’s the exact reason I insisted you carry my Voss surname instead of Hale.”

Her expression soured faintly when she thought of Jasper, refusing to elaborate further on her disappointment with him.

Just then, Julian Croft, our estate manager, stepped out into the garden to interrupt us.

A visitor’s waiting at the front gate asking to speak with you directly.

He described the man’s messy, worn appearance briefly, and I knew instantly who’d come to see

After a moment’s hesitation, I walked out front to meet him.

A single week apart had wasted Jasper away completely.

His clothes were crumpled and unwashed, his face gaunt and exhausted, heavy dark bags under his eyes.

He told me everything that had unfolded after he’d signed the kinship termination affidavit.

Once Kian discovered Liora wasn’t biologically his daughter, he’d snapped completely and murdered the former housekeeper in a fit of unhinged rage.

Kian’s now locked away in county jail awaiting trial, drowning Jasper in millions of dollars in

unpaid debt.

Liora ran off and vanished without a trace the second the scandal broke.

Jasper sank down onto the curb at the gate, shoulders hunched in complete defeat, his voice

cracking with desperate regret.

“I’ve made terrible mistakes, Elowen. Give me a second chance to come back home with you and

Seraphina.”

I pulled the voluntary kinship termination affidavit out of my purse, holding it up between us.

Don’t you remember signing this document yourself?”

Pain twisted his features, and he clung to one last desperate memory to plead his case.

I truly loved you once, don’t you recall when you were six and deathly ill? I’d give any organ in my body to save you back then.”

Hatred burned sharp and cold inside my chest as I stared down at him.

I haven’t forgotten a single second of that day-that’s exactly why I trusted you and Dad blindly for three full years, even as you robbed me blind.

Every trace of sibling affection I’d once felt for you died the day you chose Liora over Mom and plotted to lock me away.

You made your own choice, and you have to live with its consequences alone.”

I tossed the signed affidavit onto the pavement beside his knees and turned my back without a single glance backward.

Heartbroken sobs echoed from behind me as I walked away, but I never paused or looked back.

I spotted Seraphina tending to the flower beds in the warm sunlight far ahead, breaking into a quak

run to rush to her side.