"Your husband, you haven't introduced him to me," May remarked.

'Huh?' Mia was stunned.

"Don't be shocked," May continued, laughing. "I was simply in a coma, not dead. So yeah, I always heard everything you said. And the books you read to me..." She smiled warmly as she spoke.

It took a while for Mia to collect herself from the shock. ‘Oh.’

Since her mother woke up, they had never discussed Shawn, which made Mia shocked when May mentioned him just now.

"I know it was a marriage of convenience between you two, but that doesn't give him the right to mistreat my daughter." May's soft expression had transformed into...