Reborn as My Enemy’s Child

From that point on, Xena’s life became a non-stop cycle of taking care of me around the clock. It was a “wonderful” mix of sleepless nights and constant chaos.

Whenever she tried to sleep, I would start crying. After an hour of her exhausting attempts to soothe me, just when she thought I had settled down, I would wake up screaming again.

When she tried to feed me, I would spit up right in her face.

Any chance I got, I would yank her hair or grab at her face.

I pushed her to the brink. She had hoped to sweet-talk Felix into getting her credit cards back so she could go shopping. But eventually, she was so fed up that she handed me over to the nanny.

The moment the nanny held me, I started crying so loudly it could break everyone’s heart in the whole mansion.

Her mother-in-law, my grandma, stormed in, glaring at her. “Xena! What kind of mother are you? You don’t even want to take care of your own child? If you can’t handle it, then get out of my house!

“Seriously, what kind of useless woman did we let into this family?”

Grumbling under her breath, Grandma rocked me in her arms, and I, of course, stopped crying right away.

I shot Xena a smug smile, and she looked horrified. “Mom! She… she’s a monster!”

Grandma frowned. “That’s your baby. How could she be a monster? Are you out of your mind?”

I squinted, a satisfied grin spreading across my face, and then I closed my eyes dismissively as if to say, “You’ve lost this one.”

“Mom! I’m not making this up! How could a baby have expressions like that?”

Grandma glanced down at me, and I quickly pretended to be asleep.

She glared at Xena. “Enough with the nonsense! Say it again, and I’ll call a therapist for you!

“We never should have let Felix marry you. Look at you—calling your own child a monster just because you want to go shopping?”

She raised her hand and, with a sharp “smack,” slapped Xena across the face.

“That’s for talking nonsense! And that’s for being selfish!

“You little gold digger, you don’t even care about your own kid!”

Xena stared at me with fear in her eyes.

I looked right back at her, letting out a soft, mocking laugh.

Xena, this was just the beginning.