Chapter 7
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Chapter 7
“What are you saying?
You’re my real parents?
I’m not the Nguyens’ biological daughter?”
“So what?
You swapped Catherine out for me back then, and now that you’ve made a mess, you expect me to support you?”
“Stephanie, this life of luxury you have came from us! You owe us!”
“Your mom’s gambling debts are still hanging over us! Just the crumbs from their table could keep us afloat!”
“Otherwise, we’ll expose everything!”
“Fine. I can fake my own death. The Nguyens adore me-they’ll believe anything I say.”
“Wait for my call!”
Stephanie sat frozen on the floor, face deathly pale.
She never imagined the Robinsons had recorded this conversation.
Her plan was simple: silence Catherine permanently, eliminate the Robinsons’ influence,
and remove all threats. But everything changed after Catherine died.
And now the Nguyens had found the Robinsons!
Everything-ruined. All her schemes washed away like dust.
“Yes, I bullied Catherine. I hated her pathetic act. What of it?”
“And you?
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Weren’t you her birth parents and brother?
Why didn’t you believe her?”
“You let me torment her-made her kneel and apologize to me! What right do you judge me now?”
Her icy stare swept over the three pale faces.
“Think you’re so noble?
Didn’t you all push Catherine toward death?
Why should I be the only one to blame?”
Anna’s heartache radiated through her entire body, nearly buckling her knees.
When Catherine died, this same pain had seized her-a mother’s intuition.
She’d assumed the grief would fade, having barely known the girl.
But then Mark revealed Stephanie’s years of cruelty toward Catherine.
Worse, the daughter she’d raised so lovingly had known her true origins all along-
and used Anna’s own hands to torment Catherine, even plotting her death…
What had she done to deserve this?
Catherine was only 21!
Her life ended before it truly began.
have to
This was Anna’s fault. She’d been blind, mistaking such a vicious, ungrateful wretch for a treasure and keeping her in the house,
and cherishing this monster while her real child perished.
Tears streaming, Anna pointed a trembling finger toward the door.
“My mistake was letting you hurt Catherine again and again. No more.”
“From this moment, you’re no daughter of mine. Get back to the Robinsons.”
“Whatever your parents do to you-it’s none of our concern!
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Get out!”
Stephanie scrambled forward desperately.
“No! Please, Mom! Don’t send me away!”
“They’ll kill me!
Dad!
Mark! Stop her!
Save me!”
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Stephanie screamed herself hoarse, but couldn’t break free from Thomas and Elizabeth’s grip.
“You’re just a waste of money and food!”
“Couldn’t even win over that wealthy family,”
“Listen girl, if you can’t land a rich husband, you’ll marry whoever I choose! I found you a match just yesterday-500,000 dollars bridal dowry!”
Anna’s eyes burned red as she watched Stephanie being dragged further away until she vanished.
She couldn’t hold back anymore, rushing to the storage room where she clutched Catherine’s ashes, crumpling to the floor in wails.
“Catherine, my baby girl…”
The ashes felt so cold in her hands.
Catherine, are you cold up there in heaven?
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