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Chase and Lily came back, just like I thought. Chrissy took the fall.
Chase came home and found things had changed.
Mom looked at him with a coldor overaccion
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Mom looked at him with a colder expression.
The staff started treating him the way they
treated Lily, or worse.
They left his clothes for days. The new
caretaker treated him violently and touched
him.
He tried to tell Dad.
No one knew what they said in the study. He
came out with hatred in his eyes.
From then on, Chase kept hearing people call him a eunuch, cripple, and bastard.
Chase wasn’t 18 yet. His account was gone.
Dad told me to give him some money so he
wouldn’t starve.
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Mom hated Chase now that she knew he wasn’t
a “perfect man” and wanted to get rid of Lily.
Lily was extremely thin. Her bones stuck out.
Her waist was thin, like it might break.
I knew why. She couldn’t handle the diet, so I posted an ad for rib removals.
Lily couldn’t stand dieting, so she did it.
On the day they were supposed to move, she begged, crawling at my mother’s feet. “Mom, I was wrong. I’ll dance better. Please don’t kick me out.”
“Mom, I have nowhere to go. I’m a minor, Mom. I won’t do anything bad again. Please don’t kick me out.”
Mam bialad hae Chah
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Mom kicked her. She hated that she’d adopted
her.
The staff started throwing her stuff out the
door. I stood there watching.
I had to do something. She had to stay so I
could torture her.
I walked over to Lily. “Kneel, slap yourself, and apologize, and I’ll let you stay here…”
Lily immediately slapped herself.
“As a maid.”
Lily was humiliated. She kept slapping herself.
When I thought her face would break, I spoke. “Stay here.”
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I told the groundskeeper to clean out the
storage room.
From that day on, Lily was our maid.
When she first got here, she walked like she
owned the place. Now, she was miserable.
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She cleaned toilets, did the dishes, and worked
outside, doing everything by herself.
Time passed. I took the GED and got into the
best school in the city.
Dad was so happy that he said he’d give me shares of the company on my sixteenth birthday.
He was using me again. After realizing that
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Chase was a screwup, he was giving me a
treat.
But I wanted more.
