“And your dad? I’ll ruin him.”
I close my eyes. “Thanks, Grandpa.”
His eyes fill with tears. “If your mother were
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here…”
“It was my fault. I listened to the wrong
people. I should have supported her.”
“If I had been here for her…”
Too late.
I look out the window.
Mom got snatched from her home and raised
in a village. She got accepted into a school.
When she was eighteen, her bio parents
found her.
My grandpa, her bio dad, is super rich, but he
lost his daughter years ago.
So he adopted another girl.
Mom was the real daughter who came back.
She never talked about them.
I know mom married my dad and they
divorced.
Sun Mom found out Dad WAA
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When I was five, Mom found out Dad was
cheating.
They argued.
I barely saw Dad.
Wyatt didn’t care.
Dad paid the bills.
Mom cried.
I said I’d always be there for her.
Three years later, Brittany’s mom showed up.
Mom got sick.
Dad came home.
Mom gave me a phone.
She said to call it.
It only had one contact.
My grandpa.
After surgery, my legs are attached.
The doctor says I can walk fine.
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I can’t dance.
Grandpa says he put money into Dad’s
company to help Mom.
Dad had an affair and Mom died.
He’s pulling the plug.
“I’m going to destroy Winthrop Group!”
For three months, I heal at the hospital.
I can’t sleep.
Grandpa tells me about Mom.
She lived with them for three years.
He says she was focused.
I tell him about Mom, her tears, her pain, her
weakness.
Grandpa cries.
“It’s my fault. I can’t ever make it up to her.
I’m leaving you everything.”
I think.
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Was Grandpa like Dad, loving a different
daughter?
Mom died.
I won’t know.
Three months later, my face is fixed.
It looks new.
I look like my mom.
I didn’t want to look like Dad.
I don’t want to be like them.
My phone has hundreds of missed calls.
Dad must have found the number.
He and Wyatt keep texting me.
[Star, where are you? Dad’s really sad.]
[Dad messed up. He shouldn’t have taken
Brittany’s side. He hurt you…]
[I put teddy bears in your room. Come home.]
Wyatt put up videos. He apologized.
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Grandpa says, “Your dad’s gone crazy looking
for you. His company’s collapsing.”
It doesn’t matter.
I’m the only one who matters.
I see a video online.
The video of me hit hard.
People are saying I am evil.
The security cam changed things.
People went after Brittany.
[That girl’s messed up.]
[Call the cops!]
The thugs confessed.
They said Brittany paid them to kill me.
Brittany never wanted me alive.
Old friends came to my defense.
They said I was nice and helpful.
I never went after Brittany.
