"Oh, Mom, what's there to talk about lies between us as mother and daughter? Haven't I said before? There are no parents in the world who aren't good to their children. Even if you lied to me, it was for my own good."
"But I do have something to tell you—on the day I received the HIV test results, I told Lucas I wanted a divorce. I've already signed the divorce agreement and gave it to him."
Chloe didn't mind; she wouldn't have thought that Emily was about to tell her about her true parentage.
She thought it was just a trivial matter.
"What?"
Emily was interrupted halfway through her sentence, swallowing the rest of her words.
She couldn't even bother to tell Chloe about her true parentage; she was completely absorbed by Chloe's talk about the divorce from Lucas, drawing all attention.
"Mom, as medical staff, we are very clear about HIV. It's one thing for me to have it, but there's no need to infect Lucas."
