Chapter 21

                                    

                                          

The dead silence was broken by a loud slap. Aydan stood in front of Hatice, breathing heavily from anger. Her former friend dropped her smirk, which was replaced by a deep shock as she pressed her hand to the red mark that formed on her face.
"How dare you?" Aydan said slowly through her teeth. "I know you always envied me and my family's money, and it was you who was talking behind my back, stealing my boyfriends from me. I don't care about your pathetic attempt,  but how could you spread such nasty gossip about my child?! How could you tell so many lies about Serkan and Mustafa? It wasn't enough for you to destroy your family, so you wanted to take down mine, too?! Are you really that low person that you were jealous of your husband having an innocent relationship with my son, so you started those lies?! And you couldn't even stop after you moved out but had to fuel the gossip with more lies that my daughter's illness was a justified punishment?!"
Elif, who stood several steps behind her mother's back, paled and looked in shock between her parents and the unwelcomed guest while Aydan continued, shaking from fury.
"I won't let you hurt my child anymore. You told enough when Srekan was just six years old! Have you ever thought about how it would affect him when the other children talked at school?! I know you hadn't!" She snorted with disgust. "You've never cared about anybody except for yourself, you bitch!"
Hatice pulled her lips into an angry smile, and her eyes flashed. "What a vocabulary, Aydan. You're finally showing your real face. It must have been hard to pretend for so many years that you are that sweet, innocent girl. Did your husband buy your story?"
She glanced over Aydan's shoulder with a triumphal smirk when her eyes met Kemal's murderous gaze.
"Dad?" Elif whispered, pulling her father's sleeve.
"Elif, go to your room." He said, concentrating his gaze on Hatice, and took a couple of steps closer. "We will talk later." 
Aydan exhaled heavily, shaking her head in disbelief and fisting her hands to control herself. "What are you doing here?"
"I came for my daughter." Hatice answered, pulling her chin up in a defying gesture. "I don't want her to mingle with people of your kind."
Elif snorted under her breath, ignoring her father's order, and said out loud. "Eda is an adult. She has a life here. She won't come with you."
"She will if she wants to have a family." The woman smirked, now enjoying the way her former friend was shaking.
"Eda has a new family." Aydan spat, narrowing her eyes. "She's happy here with my son, and you won't destroy this for him now."
"So, this is your goal?" Hatice crossed her arms on her chest, speaking in a condescending tone. "You want to have my daughter to marry her off to your questionable quality son?"
"Do you even hear yourself? What is wrong with you?" Aydan whispered as her eyes turned wide. "How could you come here to destroy this day for your own daughter? She just got engaged, she was so happy, and now you're trying to poison her happiness with your lies? You should leave."
"I won't go until I have a proper conversation with my daughter."
"I don't think she wants to see you." Elif added, ignoring her father's frown directed at her. Instead, she squinted. "Go, or I will call security."
"Elif, I told you to go." Kemal hissed but his daughter looked at him with anger and stayed in her place, slightly hiding behind his back.
Hatice snorted, looking between the faces of the Bolat-Ozan family. "Feel free. I will call the police and make sure that it will blow up everywhere in this shithole. Aydan, you won't be able to show your disgraced face anywhere, and no amount of new hospitals and teary stories about poor, sick children will help you save your reputation as a saint."