I just clenched my phone, which contained the photos Mia sent me early in the morning.
She and Aaron were immersed in the affectionate embrace in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel.
I was heartbroken and extremely hesitant. Looking at my daughter sleeping soundly in the bedroom, I finally made up my mind to give myself up.
But he didn't expect that his house would be set on fire shortly after he left the house.
Aaron finished his inspection and found nothing. He just sneered and threw the disabled worker's license back to my feet.
"You don't need to earn these little morsels. It's not shameful enough."
"Okay, if it weren't for Mia this time, you wouldn't be able to save your daughter even if you cried your heart out. Come with me and thank her properly. Do you hear me?"
Aaron lifted my arm hypocritically, with a smug look in his eyes.
I wiped away my tears fiercely and pushed Aaron away with all my strength.
"No need for you to pretend to be kind!"
"My daughter is mine, let's get divorced!!"
The sound of the quarrel attracted the attention of people around. Aaron's expression changed again and again, and he finally took into consideration Mia who was still being interviewed.
No harsher words were spoken.
I packed my things and limped towards Mia under the flash lights.
Amidst everyone's confused and speculative gazes.
I didn't have time to speak.
Mia held her daughter who was burned and unconscious and smiled at me.
"Maybe you don't know this, but she's the mother who locked her daughter at home and nearly burned her to death!"
"You don't have to come and thank me specially. Even if it's irresponsible of me as a mother, this is what I should do as a firefighter."
I didn't expect Mia to be so shameless.
At once, everyone present looked towards me.
"Oh my god, how dare this murderer show up? He almost burned his own daughter to death. He might as well have committed suicide!"
"Why didn't you come back earlier or later? Now that your daughter is about to be burned to death, what's the point of pretending to regret? If it were me, I would slap myself twice and kneel down in front of the heroine!"
"From what you said just now, she is the wife of the Fire Captain, but she has no fire sense at all. She came back and saw her daughter was burned and wanted a divorce. It would be better to give our daughter to the heroine than to her!"
Amid the discussions, Mia pretended to be modest and declined.
"Don't say that, blood is thicker than water. Even if Nina likes to go out and locks the child at home alone every day, she is still the child's biological mother!"
"It's just pitiful for this baby, he was only three years old and was burned like this... I believe this is just an accident, everyone please don't misunderstand Nina."
She shed a few fake tears and hugged my daughter tighter.
Aaron appeared behind her with a sad face.
“Nina Taylor, why don’t you come over and thank me.”
"She saved our daughter, so it's not too much to kneel down and thank her. Our daughter is waiting for you here. You caused her to be burned like this, so consider it as your atonement as a mother!"
Everyone present agreed, and the live camera was pointed directly at my face.
I wanted to capture the shocking scene of the mother kneeling down to atone for her sins, and the heroine holding the burned baby girl in her arms.
I just gritted my teeth and stared at Mia and Aaron in anger.
In Mia's arms, her daughter had begun to roll her eyes. Her life was in extreme danger!
I didn't care about anything else and rushed over to grab the child.
"Let my daughter go!"
"You're not a heroine at all, and you don't deserve to hold her!!"
Amid the in uproarious gazes of the crowd, he stretched out his foot and tripped me.
My unbalanced right leg suddenly tilted, and I fell heavily in front of Mia.
