Tears ran down my face as I cried and shook my head. “It wasn’t me… really, it wasn’t me…”
But he didn’t believe me. He only looked at me with disappointment and said coldly, “I didn’t think those people could raise you to become like this.”
“Now Heidi has lost her mind because of you! Sienna, you should carry that guilt for the rest of your life and spend it making it up to her.”
Mom stood nearby, watching me without any emotion. Even Atlas looked at me with cold eyes and said, “You’ve really disappointed me.”
After that, he stayed by Heidi’s side almost every day, saying it was his way of making up for me.
At that time, I thought my adoptive father had lied just to get back at me.
Then one day, Tessa overheard Heidi talking to a friend on the phone. She was laughing proudly.
“I’m perfectly fine. I just pretended for a while, and she’s completely ruined. That old man, he’d do anything for some money.”
“I told you, what is she anyway? She thinks she can fight me for my family? As long as I cry a few times, they all believe me.”
When I heard about this, I felt completely numb.
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