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Hearing this ridiculous request, I smiled.
“Chad, do you think I’m stupid?”
“You’ve always hated me because you knew
you weren’t a real Peterson.”
“You knew you would be nothing once your
identity was exposed, and you had to rely on
me.”
“But you weren’t willing to be under a
woman.”
“You hooked up with Mia because you knew
about Mia and my Dad, didn’t you?”
Hearing that, all three of them changed their
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Hearing that, all three of them changed their
expressions.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
I smiled and looked at the three of them.
“Robert, you’re useless, but you wanted to climb up the social ladder.”
“You agreed to marry in, but you weren’t
happy about it, so when you found out your
ex had a daughter, you couldn’t wait to bring
her in.”
“All these years, you’ve worked hard to make
outsiders think Mia was my mom’s daughter,
just so she could take over everything, right?”
“You know all of this, and it just so happens
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“You know all of this, and it just so happens
that I know all of this too.”
“So what makes you think I’ll cooperate with you if you put on this little show in front of
me?”
Seeing that I had seen through them, Chad
simply held a knife to my throat, snarling,
“Then don’t blame me for being rude!”
“I’ll chop off one of your fingers. I don’t
believe those old fools won’t be willing to
pay.”
I tilted my head and looked at him, unafraid.
“Then guess.”
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“Why do you think I know all of this, and why
did I let myself get captured?”
As soon as I spoke, a small knife cut through the ropes on my hands. I kicked Chad’s groin
and kicked the knife away.
At the same time, the warehouse doors were
smashed open.
My Dad raised the knife in his hand to try to
kidnap me again, but the police shot him in
the hand.
I kicked Mia to the ground and watched the
three of them wailing on the ground.
My grandparents rushed in, checking to see if
I was injured.
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I patted them to reassure them and kicked my
Dad again.
“Oh, right, there’s one more thing you might
not know.”
“The accident you were in with my mom took away your ability to have children.”
“So Mia isn’t your daughter.”
“You’ve been tricked.”
This was also why Grandma had immediately
rejected my guess.
People like them wouldn’t have adopted Mia if
they weren’t sure about who her dad was.
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They just didn’t expect my mom to hide the
news about Dad’s lack of ability to have
children, so he had been tricked into thinking
Mia was his daughter.
Dad’s eyes widened, staring at me in
disbelief.
“No way!”
“I don’t believe you!”
“You’re lying!”
I ignored him. I knew from the look in his eyes
that he already believed me.
All these years, he had tried to have a son
with other women, but he couldn’t. His pride
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kept him from going to the doctor, so he had
pinned his hopes on Mia.
Unfortunately, in the end it was all for
nothing.
After the story came out, it quickly attracted
a lot of attention.
The sentences for the three were handed
down quickly.
They would all be spending the rest of their
lives in prison, and I would have nothing to do
with them again.
I sent the DNA report to Robert, and not long
after I heard that he went mad, bought off the
guards, murdered Mia and then killed himself
by running headfirst into a wall.
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Chad was diagnosed with cancer shortly after
he was put in jail.
He had finally started to repent, getting Ms. Peterson to send me a letter that said he was
sorry.
I took the letter from the secretary and then
burned it.
“Little Ms. Smith, aren’t you going to open it
and take a look?”
I stared at the ashes and turned to the
window.
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He had finally started to repent, getting Ms.
Peterson to send me a letter that said he was
sorry.
I took the letter from the secretary and then
burned it.
“Little Ms. Smith, aren’t you going to open it
and take a look?”
I stared at the ashes and turned to the
window.
“There’s no need.”
Blue skies, white clouds, and birds flying by. I
had my own life ahead of me.
