"Huh, Matt's mother? What does she want from me?" Kate wondered.
She picked up the call without thinking much. She knew that Matt and Mary relied on Erin's threat to kill her mother if she didn't comply with every one of her stupid requests.
Now that Erin was out of the picture and had already sent her mother to a professional nursing home, she had nothing to fear.
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"Hello?" Kate opened the conversation. "Do you need anything, Mary?"
"You—You're such a useless woman!" Mary snapped.
Kate was caught off guard because she didn't expect Mary to yell out of the blue.
"Huh? What are you on about, Mary? Why are you cursing me out of the blue?"
"Do you think I don't know that you fucked over my son's saving?" Mary began to lash out, thinking it was all Kate's fault for not being a good wife to her son. "He has been working hard as a director, and he must've given you a lot of money, yet you saved NONE of it?!"
