Chapter 4
than picked it up, looked at it, and finally felt at me. He mockingly said, “Good Olivia, thank you for giving our family a hillion–dollar fortune we couldn’t spend in several lifetimes! You’re our greatest benefactor
Vanessa raised a glass of wine and drank it triumphantly. You’re truly like a parent to met I should toast your
I smiled, thinking to myself: Huh? Is that so? I hope you can keep smiling till the end:
My father, watching them glost as the family fortune passed from generations was taken away, suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood and collapsed.
He had heart problems. When I had my uterus removed years ago, he nearly died from the shock ||
“Richard”
My mother and 1, along with several relatives, rashed over. Some
some checked his pals
palse, others gave him water.
Ethan noticed a man helping and said with surprise, “Henry, you’re here too? Don’t tell me you’ve fallen for Olivia, that old hag?”
They were childhood friends from the same village. Ethan often mocked Henry for being a country bumpkin
Henry Hole smiled faintly but didn’t respond
Later, my father regained consciousness, and they took him to rest
“Where are their twin children?” someone asked
heard they went to get their college acceptance letters.
Soon, two high school students in uniforms appeared at the door.
Both were somewhat overweight but walked in with sunny expressionis
When they saw me, they turned away in disgust and went to Dhan. The daughter, Ells Bradley, whined, Dad, Aunt Yeats, we got our acceptance letters!“]
Dhan at the children beside him and smiled. “From now on, you should call Aunt Yeats som.-]
“Mom.”
-Mom-
It hurt to hear the children I’d raised calling someone else “Moon.” 1
Vanessa smiled. “Good boy. Now Mom doesn’t have to sneak to school to see you anymore.”
was furious and pointed at them. “Ella, Gibson, your mother cared for you for eighteen years, Is this how you repay her?“]
My mother was
My
“Gibson, you had a weak constitution and often caught colds and fevers as a child. Once in the middle of the night, you had a 10–degree fever, and your mother took you to see a doctor in the pouring rain–|||
“Ella, when you started high school, you became infatuated with those punk boys. One day you went out with them and they drugged you. If your mother hadn’t arrived with help in time, you would have been ruined. She was stabbed ten times trying to protect you! If not for her, you’d have been destroyed long ago]
“Even when you had y
your first period, it was your mother who taught you how to handle it and shared other knowledge about it“]
The children fell silent.
Indeed, I had taken excellent care of them.||
After a moment, Ella pouted. “Though, no matter how good she was to us, she’s not our biological mother.“||
Gibson added, “That’s right. Look at yourself, Olivia. You don’t deserve to be our mother.“]
Then he threw a paternity test at me, confirming they were Vanessa’s children ||
