Entangled with My Cousin's Fiancé
Chapter 241 I Will Make You Pay the Price

Chapter 241: Chapter 241 I Will Make You Pay the Price

"Enough!" Yolanda Greenwood was utterly exasperated, "All this is no one else’s fault but your own making. What right do you have to curse Brooks Parker?"

"You’re talking nonsense," Melissa Greenwood dropped all pretense of refinement, "If he hadn’t pretended to be so capable and full of prospects, would I have been blind enough to get together with him?"

"If I hadn’t gotten together with him, I wouldn’t have gotten pregnant, and I wouldn’t have given you and the lowlife in your belly a chance." By the end, she was gritting her teeth as if she wanted to take Yolanda down with her.

Yolanda found this person beyond help, "Melissa Greenwood, do you only think about yourself? Have you ever considered what Brooks Parker’s life might have been like if it weren’t for you?"

"Him? Without me, he’d still be a total loser," Melissa said with utter disdain.

Yolanda had had enough, "Melissa Greenwood, you always do this, always casting the blame onto others, always thinking you’re the most pitiable one. Little did you know, it’s precisely because of meeting you that others began their unfortunate lives."

"Whom are you referring to?" Melissa asked with a defeated laugh, arms crossed, "Gemma Morgan? Or Jaxon Greenwood?"

Yolanda bit her lip, "Not just them, even Eliana Reed, your own mother, didn’t end up well."

Melissa’s complexion shifted, "Eliana Reed committed suicide out of guilt; what does that have to do with me?"

"You know very well whether it has anything to do with you," Yolanda couldn’t be bothered to argue with her.

"Yolanda," Melissa glared at her, infuriated and embarrassed, "do you know what I hate most? Your holier-than-thou attitude, acting as if you’re always right."

"Melissa Greenwood, between you and me now, does it even matter if I hate you or not?" Yolanda said coldly, "If possible, I wish I could kill you myself."

"Oh, that’d be tricky," Melissa replied, almost delighted.

"Enough, talking like this is pointless," Yolanda shifted her position slightly, "The lies are about to be exposed. What’s your plan now?"

Those words indeed hit Melissa’s sore spot, and she leapt up instantly.

"What’s wrong with lying? Haven’t you, Yolanda Greenwood, ever lied?" She defended vigorously, "I lied because I had no choice, I was forced by you all. I just wanted to marry the man I loved the most. How was that wrong?"

"The one you loved the most?" Yolanda couldn’t help but be amused, "Melissa Greenwood, the person you’ve always loved the most has always been yourself?"

"..." Melissa paused before continuing, "What’s wrong with loving myself? Should I learn from you, Yolanda Greenwood, trying not to harm this person or let down that person, but end up unable to protect even my own parents?"

Yolanda was shaken, the matter of Jaxon and Gemma was her deepest wound.

She remained silent, suddenly recalling what Adam Sterling had said after, "Yolanda, you’re not wrong. All of this is because you’ve encountered a madman. How can a normal person fight a madman?"

Yes, to outfight a madman, one must gradually become mad themselves.

And so, Yolanda was here today to threaten Melissa, not to have her wounds reopened again and again and continue to suffer.

Yolanda looked up at Melissa, "Melissa Greenwood, for everything you’ve done, I will make you pay."

"Price?" Melissa laughed nervously, "You mean to go tell Cooper Coldson the truth? Go ahead, do you think Cooper would believe you?"

"If it was just me alone, Cooper might not believe," Yolanda confidently stated, "Don’t forget, there’s Brooks Parker and Little May, and if necessary, you can have a DNA paternity test."

Melissa was infuriated but could only glare at Yolanda through gritted teeth, "What do you want exactly? After so much has happened, do you still want to be with Cooper? Do you think you can go back to how things were?"

Yolanda suddenly laughed, having to admit Melissa had always been very calm.

"You’re right, we can’t go back, and I never intended to," Yolanda spoke lightly, "To me now, Cooper Coldson is like a dish of cold pasta. I have no appetite. As for you... since you’re so fond of it, you might as well take it."

Melissa was shocked, wide-eyed. She hadn’t expected Yolanda to say such a thing.

At such a critical moment, the look on Yolanda’s face suggested she wasn’t just trying to irritate her—it seemed to come from the heart.

Was it possible that the thing she had clung to and fought over so desperately, Yolanda truly didn’t care for anymore?

Melissa couldn’t believe it and found it even harder to accept, "Are you telling the truth?"

Before Yolanda could answer, Melissa answered for herself, "No, that’s not true. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to such lengths to trick me into coming here today with Brooks Parker."

"I meet with you, of course I have a purpose," Yolanda admitted frankly, "But my goal isn’t Cooper..."

Melissa narrowed her eyes uneasily, "What do you really want? My life? To avenge your parents?"

"I want you to take May in and raise her properly," Yolanda spoke calmly.

"What did you say?" Melissa doubted her own ears.

"May is your child, and it’s clear that Brooks Parker’s situation is not suitable for raising a child," Yolanda patiently explained, "So, regardless of the excuses you make, whether it’s adoption or claiming you found her, take May back and raise her well."

"..." Melissa paused, then burst into laughter, "Hahaha..."

She laughed so hard she couldn’t stand straight, "Yolanda Greenwood, Yolanda, you really are sick. What do the life and death of that little bastard have to do with you? Do you want to play the saint? Hahaha..."

Yolanda looked at Melissa with pity.

Melissa abruptly stopped laughing, "Why are you looking at me with that kind of pity? You think I’m pathetic?"

She scoffed, "Yolanda, don’t be foolish. The pitiful one is you. Doing this will get you nowhere, and when May grows up by my side, she’ll become just like me, making your child’s life a living hell. Aren’t you afraid?"

She looked at Yolanda with a challenging expression, "Imagine it. Everything you’re going through now, the child in your belly will experience in the future, and it’ll all be because of you. Do you still want me to raise May?"

Yolanda clearly hesitated.

"Hahaha..." Melissa was pleased again, "Scared? Regretful? Yolanda, you’re such a hypocrite!"

"I’m thinking if May really turns out like you, then maybe I’m making a mistake."

"You!" Melissa was infuriated, her eyes bulging.

"Let’s do this then, I’ll add another condition," Yolanda spoke slowly, "Every month, May has to spend two days with me."

"Heh, two days? That might not be enough."

Melissa’s mind spun and she quickly agreed, "Yolanda, I can accept your condition and raise May properly, but why should I believe you? What if one day you change your mind and have new conditions?"