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The whole room was silent for a moment.
Lewis was the first to speak.
Lewis was the first to speak.
He put the tin box on the table.
“These are her drawings and belongings, you
can take them, although…”
“I don’t want you to take them.”
The toffee that had gone bad was not in the
box.
“That’s impossible!”
Mom suddenly stood up, hitting the table and
almost knocking the box over.
She didn’t care, she grabbed Lewis’s coat.
“Your father and I were just trying to make
her behave. How could she commit suicide?!”
“We worked so hard to raise her, can’t she
feel our love?!”
“Love?”
Lewis raised an eyebrow, and he, who was
always gentle to the family, showed a
sarcastic smile.
“You call breaking her wings, smoothing out
く
her edges, and destroying her future love?”
“You don’t understand! That’s our way of
teaching! Only children who go through
hardships can be successful. No one wants
her to have a good future more than your
father and I!”
“Really?”
Lewis pointed his chin at Madison.
“But your infinitely tolerant adopted daughter
just got into a prestigious university, but your daughter, whom you tried so hard to nurture,
chose to commit suicide.”
“Can you explain why?”
Mom fell to the ground.
Dad was holding the tin box, with tears on his
face.
Madison sat there blankly, staring at the
drawings.
There was also a story about that birthday
party.
“Why! Why!!”
Mom hugged her head in pain.
“I just wanted her to be good, why did she
turn out like this?! My daughter!!”
“Enough!”
Dad suddenly stood up and pointed at her.
“It’s all your fault. If you hadn’t promoted this
so–called education of hardship, Sarah
wouldn’t have died!”
“Do you have the right to say that?”
Lewis said coldly.
Dad was stunned. “What did you say?”
“Ha, before she died, you had the chance to
save her.”
“…What?”
“Did you forget? She saw what you did for
your adopted daughter, and naively thought
you had changed, that you knew how to treat
your daughter.”
Lewis smiled, his eyes red.
Lewis smiled, his eyes red.
“She bought flowers to see you with hope,
thinking she could make up for the past, but
what did you do?”
“Think about what you said.”
“You personally cut off her last ray of hope!”
“You won’t know how she felt when she
chose the flowers for you at the flower shop
that day!”
“She thought you had really changed!”
“She thought you could still be a family!”
The whole room was silent.
Dad fell back into his seat, holding the tin box
blankly.
Madison touched him carefully. “Dad… ah!”
She was pushed away, and Scott pointed at
her.
“Why did you ask that question? Why did you
ask that question when you saw her outside
the door?!”
L
Lewis smiled, his eyes red.
“She bought flowers to see you with hope,
thinking she could make up for the past, but
what did you do?”
“Think about what you said.”
“You personally cut off her last ray of hope!”
“You won’t know how she felt when she
chose the flowers for you at the flower shop
that day!”
“She thought you had really changed!”
“She thought you could still be a family!”
The whole room was silent.
Dad fell back into his seat, holding the tin box
blankly.
Madison touched him carefully. “Dad… ah!”
She was pushed away, and Scott pointed at
her.
“Why did you ask that question? Why did you
ask that question when you saw her outside
the door?!”
く
“My daughter!! Give me back my daughter!!”
Madison cried in fear. “Dad, I didn’t mean to, I
really didn’t…”
“Then what would be intentional?”
Mom stood up, holding the table, trembling as
she pointed at her.
“From today on, you’re not our daughter!”
Madison fell to the ground.
