A Second Chance at Forever ( Eleanor Shultz )
A Second Chance at Forever Chapter 1210

Chapter 1210

After Cedric left, Latonia leaned back on the couch, arms folded across her chest, legs crossed casually up straight, staring sternly at Hertha.

“Give her a good three slaps!”

Upon the order, the bodyguard quickly raised his hand, smacking Hertha’s face three times quickly.

After the hard slaps, Hertha flicked her messy hair out of her eyes and glared angrily at Latonia.

“Why the hell are you hitting me?!”

“You set my son up, why wouldn’t I hit you?!”

Having gotten the scoop and checked the surveillance footage, Latonia certainly wasn’t blind to the fact that Hertha had staged the whole drama just to piss Hailey off.

“I didn’t set him up, he got drunk and came onto me!”

“Break her ribs, then snap her fingers!”

Latonia, ignoring Hertha’s angry roars and resistance, continued to command the bodyguard.

“Yes, ma’am!”

The stone–faced bodyguard pulled out a small hammer and took a vicious swing at Hertha’s ribs.

The pain left Hertha speechless, leaving her lying on the ground, her red and swollen eyes staring daggers at Latonia.

The elegant lady on the couch slowly picked up her coffee and took a gentle sip.

“Ms. Hertha, if you just tell me the truth, you won’t have to suffer like this. But if you keep playing dumb, they’ll keep torturing you.”

Hertha had a recording pen on her, so she didn’t care. She gave a faint smile.

“Latonia, you used the same tactics to force me to break up with Cedric. You haven’t learned any new tricks, have you?”

The hand holding the coffee froze in mid–air. Latonia lifted her eyes to look coldly at Hertha.

“You have the nerve to bring up the past?!”

“Why shouldn’t I?”

Struggling against the pain, Hertha slowly stood up.

“If it wasn’t for you forcing me to break up with Cedric, I would’ve married him long ago. Wouldn’t have wasted all these years.”

When Latonia heard this, she thought it was hilarious.

Just as she was about to scold Hertha for seducing Bernard, Hertha’s angry roar interrupted her.

“Even if you beat me to death today, I won’t be like before, obeying you, hurting Cedric and suffering the pain of leaving him!”

“You…”

“Do you look down on me because of my background?”

Hertha didn’t give Latonia a chance to speak and shouted like a madwoman.

“But does that mean I don’t deserve love just because I’m low–born?”

After shouting this, Hertha’s eyes turned red and she started to sob quietly, crying and saying, “It’s all my fault for being too young back then. I thought Cedric’s mother was my future mother–in–law, so I put up with your humiliation. But what did I get in return? Nothing but forced to hurt Cedric and leave him. Now I’m back and have a chance to rekindle our relationship, but you’re trying to pin me down with something I didn’t do. Latonia, don’t you think you’re a failure as a mother? You’ve done everything to cover up your son’s wrongdoings, spoiling him to the point where he’ll never learn to take responsibility.”

After Hertha finished, not only did she expose Latonia’s actions to protect Cedric, but she also criticized her for spoiling him too much.

Latonia didn’t expect the girl who tried every trick to marry into the Laurence family to grow into a thoughtful, logical, and assertive woman.

If Latonia didn’t know Hertha’s true intentions, she might be convinced by her words and begin to doubt whether her son had done something wrong but was too afraid to admit

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Any other parent might give up in the face of this, but Latonia, who had weathered the storms of high society, remained unflappable in the face of these petty tricks.

“Ms. Hertha, there’s no one else here. No need to keep up the act, because nobody’s watching.”

Hearing this, Hertha’s eyes welled up with tears.

“Mrs. Laurence, I’m not acting. I really did sleep with Cedric that night!”

She pleaded, looking at Latonia with sincere eyes.

“Accusing a man of raping me is not something a woman would be proud of, so I have no reason to lie.”

“Plus, if I were lying about this, I’d have a motive. But I didn’t threaten Cedric to marry me afterwards, nor did I expose it to the media to ruin his reputation. I just quietly left. Is that wrong too?”