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I tried hard to make my parents love me again, but Sophie pushed me down from the staircase. My leg was injured and no one batted an eye.
Everyone rushed to Sophie’s side instead.
They gathered around her to see if she was okay. cried from the pain and said, “She pushed me.”
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Sophie didn’t defend herself, but said bitterly with red eyes, “Whatever she said.”
Tammy suddenly burst into tears. As she came down the stairs, she asked, “Auntie, why did you push my mommy? Mommy did not want to come here and disturb your family reunion. It’s Granny and Grandad who insisted oǹ inviting us here. If you don’t like us here, we can leave. Why did you push Mommy?”
After she said that, my mother rushed up to me and slapped me in the face.
She spoke with disgust in her voice, “I thought you had sincerely repented in the past few years, but I didn’t expect you to be even more vicious than before!”
At that moment, tears flowed out of my eyes like a broken dam.
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Chapter 2
I insisted with tears in my eyes that I didn’t push Sophie, yet no one believed me.
My dad looked at me with a disappointed face, “Can a child as young as Tammy know how to lie?”
Mark clenched his fists and said coldly, “Lily, you really are a lost cause.”
Anthony came over and kicked my broken leg with intention, causing me to cry out in pain.
However, no one cared about my pleas. They felt as if they had finally released their resentment after seeing me wince in pain.
No one said a word, but their faces were clear and said everything – they believed I deserved every bit of this pain.
Anthony said, “You are a bad mother, I hate you so much.”
That day, I limped away from their home in tears. I still remember the heartache from that night. 1
With that final push, I decided to file for a divorce.
At that time, he just calmly tore apart my divorce papers and said, “Lily, don’t you understand? No one can love you except me now.”
I was stunned and speechless, questioning if he ever even loved me.
He saw through me and mocked, “If I didn’t love you, how could I have tolerated all your evil deeds? Lily, your parents no longer want you. They want to accept Sophie as their adopted daughter. Just stay by my side and atone your sins for Sophie with me, okay?”
That night, my unloved self was convinced by Mark.
I was so scared. I was afraid that no one in this world would love me. I was afraid that if I lost this family, I would be a homeless orphan, drifting like a duckweed in the water.
I didn’t want to be a weed that no one liked.
Therefore, I learned to give in and stayed quiet.
I stopped defending myself, and allowed the father and son to ignore me and favor Sophie and her daughter under the pretext of making amends.
However, my submission did not lead to a favorable result after all this time.
It was too painful to look back, and my thoughts were interrupted by Anthony rushing over.
Anthony pushed me away, took Tammy’s hand, and comforted her, “Don’t be afraid, Tammy. No one can bully you and Aunt Sophie under Dad and I’s watch.”
After saying that, he shot me a warning look, “If you dare to hurt them, I will never call you
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my mother ever again.”
Tammy said with a sensible tone, “Anthony, don’t be rude to Auntie Lily…”
She looked at me with a flattering smile, “Auntie, I know you don’t like me and my mommy. We are not like you. We have nothing. Can you please not drive us away?”
As the saying goes, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
I smiled at her, “What do you mean you have nothing? This home will be yours from now on.”
