“And can we stop talking about Matthew now? That's a sore subject with me. I'm going to go shopping with Rhea. Wanna come with us?" Erica asked.

“Sure." It was Yvette's day off, so she agreed to go shopping with them. So the sisters went back to their villa to fetch their car.

But when they arrived at the villa, Erica regretted her suggestion. She looked at Yvette and said, “Hey, I suddenly remembered I told Hyatt I'd meet him later today. Don't wait for me. Just head home."

"You're seriously going there alone?"

“I'll be fine. I'll hail a cab!"

“ALL right. Be careful on your way there."

“Sure. I'm good. Bye!" After Yvette entered the villa, Erica turned and walked away.

When she and Rhea had been attending the same college, she had many admirers and enemies. She didn't want her sister to come across her enemies, so she asked her to go back home. Erica could take care of herself, but she wasn't so sure she could keep her sister safe too.

At Askor Film Academy

Erica didn't enter the campus. She gave Rhea a call and waited for her at the school gate.

But unbeknownst to her, the news that she came back to her parents’ house alone had spread across the country. Why hadn't Matthew come back with her? No one knew.

Plus, she gave birth to a boy out of wedlock and made Matthew the boy's stepfather. As a result, everyone who saw her gave her strange looks, and the whispered mean comments followed.

And of course, she encountered the mean girls, the ones who hated her.

The news that she was back on campus had also spread fast.

“Erica, how dare you come back! Have you no shame?”

The girl who just spoke was Reese Padget, Erica's high school classmate. She was a student in the Art Department of Asko Film

Academy.

She was really something, and she and her friends always made fun of

Erica. This time, they weren't going to miss another opportunity.

Erica cast a contemptuous glance at Reese and snorted.

"Got a problem?

Why have I no shame? Go ahead, enlighten me," she said calmly.

Reese had known Erica for almost three years, but she was still a little afraid of her when Erica was angry. The young mom wasn't angry yet, so Reese had the audacity to mock her.

“Your private life is an ugly affair. And you have the gall to marry Matthew after giving birth to a bastard. Come on!"

“A bastard? My son has taken to Matthew. How dare you call Matthew's son a bastard? You may be not afraid of me, Reese, and that's okay. But you should be afraid of Matthew, Erica said. She was surrounded by six girls all told, but she wasn't the least bit scared.