Slap!
A hard slap from Marco shut her up immediately.
Marina was shell shocked.
“How dare you hit me?” she exclaimed when she finally found her voice.
“Because you deserve it!”
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Marina, now mad with rage, could no longer control her emotions and she blurted out angrily, “Who do hell you
think you are? How dare you hit me? You're nothing but an illegitimate child!”
The instant the words left Marina’s mouth, the entire living room went deathly silent.
Laura and Liza cast nervous eyes in Marco's direction.
Marco was shocked. He doubted if his ears were working properly.
His eyes were scary wide and trained on Marina as he asked, “What did you just say?”
Marina’s eyes widened in panic as she realized she had spilled the beans. She had acted too impulsively.
Liza had warned her repeatedly that Marco was to never know the truth.
There was also the fact that she and Laura had to be dependent on Marco for now.
If Marco knew the truth, he would never help them clean their messes.
Marina shrunk back and turned her guilty eyes away from him.
“Nothing... | said nothing.”
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Marco's eyes darkened as he narrowed them at Marina.
What Loraine told him suddenly cto mind.
Truly, how else would Marina have the guts to yell at him if it was not that they were keeping something from
him?
An illegitimate child?
Marina was simple-minded; it was impossible for her to keep secrets.
“What did you just say, Marina?”
Marco walked closer to Marina, pressing in on her. Her legs instantly felt weak, and she crumpled to the floor,
quickly turning to Liza and