The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 807 Nightmare

Anthony's mindset towards Sue was not hidden from her. She knew that he just used her to just deal with his separation pangs with Sheryl. But to hear it from him was all the more heartbreaking. Sue froze when she heard Anthony. Yes, it seemed that he was right. She was nobody to him, so she wasn't qualified to intervene in his life.

Sue gave him a bitter smile and said, "Well, fine, you're right. It's not up to me to be in charge of you. You can enjoy your wine. I'll take my leave."

Sue's voice choked as she spoke these words. She was hurt, angry and disappointed beyond word. She just got up and began to leave. A moment more with Anthony and she would lose her temper completely.

As she turned around and walked away from Anthony, she was stopped by a thud on the ground. She turned around to replace Anthony lying on the ground unconscious.

"Anthony! Oh, my..." She rushed back to see if he was alright. She checked if his breathing was normal and also if he got bruised due to the fall. After checking him properly, she was assured that he was absolutely alright. He just fell asleep for being drunk.

Sue was rendered speechless when she saw Anthony's face as he fell into a deep slumber. She could certainly not leave him behind in this state. She payed the bill and got Anthony into the car with the help of a waiter. Initially, she planned to send him to his house, but due to being overtly drunk, Anthony was feeling very sick. Hence, she had no choice but to replace him a hotel nearby.

The moment she laid him down on the hotel bed, he threw up. It was certainly not easy to look after a drunkard. All through the first half of the night, Anthony kept puking and Sue kept cleaning up the mess. She put off his dirty shirt and cleaned his body. While washing his clothes, she heard him mumbling and came running to see if he needed anything.

She gave him some warm water to drink, in order to make him feel better.

And just like this, she didn't even realize when the clock struck two.

By the time Anthony was feeling a little better and fell into a relaxing sleep, Sue was a bit tired. She lied in the sofa to take a nap. She was waken by a call near five o'clock in the morning.

Sue forced herself to open her eyes to see whose call it was at the wee hours of the morning and the number that flashed on her mobile screen made her spring up on the sofa. A stern frown settled on her face as she glanced at her phone and then at Anthony. Then she proceeded to the balcony silently to answer the phone.

It was no sooner than she had just pressed the receiving icon on her phone, she was exposed to a loud shriek from the other side. It was a woman's voice shouting and cursing her by using all the dirty and evi words. Sue took a while before she was confirmed that it was her mother on the other side.

Sue remained silent without interrupting her mother. This was something that happened often. She just heard it expressionlessly until her mother got bored and stopped. After a while as she could hear her mother's breathing pattern to come back to normal, Sue spoke, "Are you happy now?"

"You little slut. Did you think that you can run away from me? See, I found you out," Peggy Li blurted. Peggy Li came from a typical rural background. She didn't have a good education and hadn't see the world beyond her village. In her opinion, daughters could never be valued.

This was very common notion in rural areas. Sue was her first born. After Sue was born, she was abused by one and all in her husband's family, especially her mother-in-law. In order to earn some dignity for herself, she planned to continue having children until she could have a son. But unfortunately for her, even the next two children were girls.

Peggy Li was desperate for a son. But their financial constraint did not support the idea. Hence, she decided to put Sue's two younger sisters up for adoption. Sue was spared because she was old enough to help with some household work.

Several years later, the living condition of her family got a little better, so Peggy got pregnant once again. This time her dreams came true and she finally had a son.

What happened next? As it happened in such families often -- the boy became the center of attraction for the whole family. He got everything he wanted at the drop of a hat while Sue was completely ignored and deprived. Having suffered living in that kind of family, Sue managed to leave her house when she turned eighteen. She found a job to support herself and never got back again.

A few years ago, Sue got acquainted with some models by chance. From that time onwards, she entered the modelling industry. She made enough money from her modelling career that she could save some money. Though she didn't want to go back home, she had been sending almost 100, 000 dollars to her family.

Her parents could have used that money to build a house for themselves but her younger brother, Allen Wang, had lost all the money in gamble.

Peggy Li was a typical uneducated rural woman who spoiled her son. She refrained from spending a single penny on herself but fulfilled all the whims of her son even if it needed her to go out of her means. Needless to say, the money that Sue sent them was all spent by him.

Allen Wang was just four years younger than Sue and he had never been to work. He didn't even bother to earn because all the money he used came from Sue.

Three years ago Allen Wang wanted to get married, but his fiancee asked for a bride price of 180, 000 dollars, and a two-floor house. Allen Wang was obsessed with that girl, so he said yes to all her conditions He came back home and told his mother that he needed some money to get married, but Peggy Li couldn't arrange such an exorbitant amount of money.

Allen Wang, who had never been denied anything all his life, was mad at his mother and urged her to replace out a way to arrange the money. Finally they thought of Sue. They made an agreement with an old man in their village that he would give them 300, 000 dollars in exchange of having Sue to get married with him. Allen Wang was satisfied with the trade. He would have the money to get married if they could replace Sue and got her back.

How could Peggy Li refuse her son? She made up an excuse to call Sue back home and planned to force her to marry that old man.

Sue was reluctant to come back but she couldn't defy her mother. Soon she realized what her mother and brother were planning. And when she refused to marry that old man and tried to leave, Peggy Li stopped her and locked her up in a room. After that Sue somehow managed to escape from the house.

Since then she had never been back. Right after that she got the opportunity to go abroad three years ago. Though she never came back home, she didn't stop sending money home every month. But she never revealed her address.

Sue had been having enough of them and wanted to be away from them. She knew that they would replace her out some day, but she didn't expect it to come so early. It had been just three years since she had met them the last time.

Sue's head felt heavy as the faces of her mother and her brother came in front of her eyes. She closed her eyes at once to shut the vision out and asked in a cold voice, "How did you get my phone number?" Now that she had found her, she wouldn't let her go so easily. Sue was tired of her mother's eccentricities. She just wanted to live a peaceful life.

However, Sue was curious about how she found her out in such a short time.

Peggy Li shouted exasperatedly on the phone, "It's none of your business. You little basebred filthy slut, how dared you run away from us three years ago! How dared you hide yourself from me for so long! How dared you! Well, well, now I know where you are hiding." Peggy Li was angry on Sue. Because of her escapade, Allen Wang's wedding could not be materialized. She threatened Sue, "I'm telling you, I'm coming for you tomorrow. You'd better wait for me in your God damn room. Otherwise you don't know what will happen if you cheat me again."

Sue smiled coldly and said, "Waiting for you? Waiting for you to sell me to that old guy?"

Sue was not sure what she felt about it when she said that to Peggy Li. Her mind was overwhelmed out of anger, sadness and disappointment. She turned to see if Anthony was waken by her, and she found him sleeping well.

Sue vetted out her situation and hundred of thoughts flooded her mind in a jiffy. As long as she lived abroad, Peggy Li could not reach her. But now that she had come back to Y City, it was quiet possible that her mother would leave no stone unturned to hunt her down from any corner of the city.

And if she knew that Sue had a boyfriend, Anthony would be in a huge trouble.

Especially if she knew that Anthony was from a wealthy family, Peggy Li and her son would go out of their ways to extract money from him.

Her heart shuddered at the thought of her mother exploiting Anthony. But what if that really happened? How could she allow Anthony to be harmed because of her? On the second thought, even if Anthony was willing to meet their requirements, Sue couldn't allow him to do so, because it would be unfair to him. Moreover, Peggy Li and Allen Wang were greedy. They wouldn't be satisfied so easily. The matters could get worse to the point that even Sue would not be able to handle it.

The more she thought about all this her heart sank. Then she finally made up her mind to face Peggy Li head on. She sighed and said, "That's alright, I will be waiting for you tomorrow. But let me tell you one thing, Peggy Li. I am not the girl that I used to be. Hence, you'd better be polite. You have no idea what I can do to you now. Have a try if you want.

Don't yell at me or order me, don't abuse me in a mother's name. I'm telling you, I am not afraid of you anymore, and I'm even ready to fight you to death if need be."

"You fucking bitch, how dare you speak..." Peggy shouted back at her as she was mad when she heard Sue speak up. Sue just disconnected the phone to shut the noise out of her ears.