Ascension of a Reborn Woman (Hiatus)

Chapter 6.2

Looking at his dejected little expression as his pretty eyes began to water and his lower lip puckered while trembling, Isabel felt her heart sting as she suddenly thought of her own mother.

Isabel was born and raised in a countryside very far from Metropolis City. Her father was an ordinary salaryman from a common home while her mother was the second daughter of a wealthy home, but because she insisted on marrying Isabel's father against her family's wishes, they cut ties.

When it came time for Isabel to attend high school, because she wanted to pursue the arts and her parents wanted to give her the best environment possible, they sent her to the city and to make sure she was well taken care of, Isabel's mother had gotten on her knees to beg her grandmother, Isabel's great-grandmother to shelter Isabel without the rest of the family knowing, to which the old woman agreed. She even went as far as to help contribute to Isabel's college fund after getting to know and coming to love her smart, talented and extremely beautiful great-granddaughter.

But in the end, Isabel had thrown that all away; the love, the care, the concern the expectations for her future, all the hours her father had worked, commuting to the city early and coming home late at night, sometimes not coming home for days to be able to save for her tuition. She threw those all away because she fell in love with Brycen who never held any affection for her.

Once she gave him her tuition money to start his company, Isabel didn't have the courage to go back and face her family so never one day did she return home and even till her last breath in the previous life, she never went back or even contacted them.

She didn't know how her parents were, if her great-grandmother's illness ever got better or even about her own little brother, she'd never even seen him.

In her second year of high school, Isabel's mother had gotten pregnant, only adding to the family's financial burden so Isabel started living full time in Metropolis in the apartment her great-grandmother rented for her, not returning home during breaks like she used to before, that was also the year she had met and fallen in love with Brycen.

Her parents probably didn't even know they had grandchildren.

When she was just reborn, all Isabel had cared about was breaking away from Brycen, protecting her children and fulfilling her dream. Until now, she never really realized exactly how much there still was that she needed to make up for. Suddenly, she was feeling a little home sick.

But, now was not the time. However, just as she was about to scold Kelvin and make him apologize, she was surprised to see her son who usually avoided contact with everyone except herself, Davina, Kim and his sister, suddenly reach out his hand to push away the bang's hanging down in the boy's face.

"Ke- Kelvin--"

"Looks like mum."

"Huh?" Isabel was shocked. "What looks like me?"

"Nose and mouth."

"It does a little." Davina commented while coming to crouch next to them. "Hey Izzy. Are you sure you didn't give birth to triplets and one of them got stolen? This kid really looks like you... now that I take a closer look."

"Hey don't joke about that... really?"

Isabel couldn't hold her curiosity and bent her neck to look, but she really couldn't see the resemblance that they were talking about, only feeling that this little boy really too adorable when he flushed red up to his ears while shrinking into her bosom to get away from how close her face was to his.

"Is everything alright?"

The four of them looked up to find the staff that had initially been leading them to the seating area standing in the doorway with an anxious look upon her face. These were the manager's guests, if anything happened to them, she could very well kiss her job goodbye.