"Arwen!" Catrin’s voice rose, and her gaze became threatening. "What do you know about being a mother. You never became one. You won’t know the pain a woman goes through to be a mother."
Arwen nodded. "Of course, I won’t know the pain of motherhood yet, but I definitely know a lot about daughterhood. And trust me when I tell you this, that you were a terrible daughter your entire life."
"Arwen, you —"
Arwen pulled away her hand that Aiden was holding, and she stepped forward, out from Idris’s embrace, towards Catrin. "You say that Granna failed to be your mother, but no, you were wrong in that. She was always a perfect mother. She completed the duties that you failed on without letting you realize it. She was there at every moment you needed her, either physically or in the way you needed her. But what about you? Were you ever there for her? To appreciate all the right decisions, she took for you when you were busy scorning her, blaming her?"
Catrin stepped back instinctively when Arwen stepped towards her.
"You always say she was the cause of all your miseries," Arwen highlighted. "But you never cared to see that those weren’t actually the miseries. All her decisions for you were so right that it gave you a beautiful life ... a beautiful future."
"I built that future. I worked hard for it," Margaret tried to defend. "Your Granna pushed me to the worst. I turned that worst into best, on my own merit."
"Merit?" Arwen derided, pushing Catrin towards the exit without letting her realize it. "Your merit? Are you ever sure that you ever had merits? If you have a chance, go back and check the records. In your every success, every achievement, you find someone common. Who was there, but never let you realize?"
"What do you mean?" Catrin frowned.
However, Arwen didn’t explain to her. Her step paused as she stood at the entrance of the house, with Catrin standing out. "I mean, you failed your entire life ... if you can’t realize it yet, you will realize it soon. Now, you can leave."
From the corner of her eyes, Catrin suddenly caught sight of Idris again, and her brows furrowed deeper when she realized the distance difference they shared. She turned to look and finally realized that Arwen had forced her to step outside the house already.
She looked at her and said with a troubled face. "Arwen, your grandmother is gone already. Are you going to blame me for that? Don’t you realize yet that with her gone, you only have me now. Why are you still so stubborn when you can be better?"
Arwen didn’t respond. She just stared at her as though she couldn’t understand.
"Forget what happened in the past. I will forget your mistakes and would never condemn you for them. Come back to me. I am your mother after all. I can’t bear to stay apart from you." Catrin spoke, both her tone and words soft —very unlike her.

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