Chapter 3
Hannah was sitting on the couch. Instead of the excitement I’d expected, she looked at me nervously. “Mom,
you’re back.”
I stared at my daughter. Her once-slender figure was now heavier and her skin had darkened considerably.
I didn’t know what had happened, but all I felt was heartbreak.
I walked over and crouched in front of her, reaching out. She cautiously tried to hug me, and I couldn’t control my emotions, pulling her tightly into my arms.
She winced in pain. Alarmed, I pushed up her sleeve.
Purple and blue bruises covered her arm.
“Who did this?!” I demanded.
Hannah’s eyes immediately welled with tears as she buried herself in my embrace. “Mom, I just fell accidentally…”
‘I’m sorry, it’s my fault…” she trembled, apologizing repeatedly.
Seeing my daughter’s abnormal behavior tore my heart to pieces.
She hadn’t been like this before.
It was all my fault. But now, nothing would make me leave her side again.
I took Hannah’s hand and slowly walked back to my bedroom.
‘I’ll stay with you tonight…”
With me beside her, Hannah seemed to relax, giving me a faint smile before quickly falling asleep in my
arms.
Looking at her furrowed brow even in sleep, my heart sank once more.
I needed to investigate what had been happening here,
As I was deep in thought, the bedroom door was suddenly kicked open.
Hannah jolted awake, trembling violently.
Chapter 3
A girl in a silk nightgown appeared, pointing at my daughter and yelling:
“You trash! Who said you could sleep here?!”
She stormed in but froze when she saw me.
Who are you?” I asked with a cold voice, my brow furrowed. “And why are you barging into rooms without he homeowner’s permission?”
The girl hesitated. “This is my parents’ house. I do whatever I want!”
stared at her icily. “Your mother? I don’t have a daughter like you.”
Before I lose my temper, get out.”
The girl was about to explode when Mrs. Davis rushed in and covered her mouth.
Ma’am, this is my granddaughter. She sometimes sleepwalks. Please don’t mind her,” she explained
urriedly before dragging Mia downstairs.
Then she returned with a bowl of banana oatmeal. “Ma’am, your daughter hasn’t eaten dinner. I prepared
his for her.”
nodded. “You can go now.”
‘d keenly noticed how Hannah seemed particularly averse to these two approaching her.
Hannah, are you hungry?” I asked gently.
Have something to eat.”
Hannah shook her head. “Mom, I don’t want to eat…”
‘Mom, please, I hate how I look now. I don’t want food.”
‘I won’t drink it,” she repeated, staring at the banana oatmeal with apprehension.
But I remembered this used to be her favorite.
A suspicion formed in my mind. Could my daughter’s weight gain and acne be because…
“Okay, if you don’t like this, Mom will make you something else tomorrow.”
Hannah seemed relieved and quietly fell asleep beside me.
Chapter 3
“I need you to help me have something tested… Yes, right now,” I told my assistant.
“Also, the deleted security footage from the house-I don’t care how much it costs, find a way to recover it!”
My assistant worked quickly. The technical team soon provided results.
What they sent nearly made my heart explode with rage.
The most recent recoverable security footage was from my daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony.
But the person wearing the million-dollar dress that day wasn’t Hannah!
Such a beautiful dress would be wasted on you anyway!” a voice sneered.
Trash like you belongs in the garbage. You just got lucky being born into this family… but some things don’t
belong to you. They’re wasted on someone like you.”
I heard it’s your birthday too. Here’s your cake!”
With a sickeningly sweet smile, she threw a piece of cake onto the floor, her eyes filled with malice.
Lick it clean. Don’t waste food.”
You’re just the housekeeper’s daughter. It’s an honor that Miss Sven is giving you cake at all.”
Others joined in, with someone grabbing Hannah’s hair and forcing her face down into the cake on the floor
Hannah struggled, reaching toward someone off-camera. “Ethan… please…”
The next moment, Mia viciously stepped on Hannah’s hand.
Know your place, trash!”
Ethan is MINE!”
My daughter’s agonized cries were drowned out by the blaring music,
Ethan had been Hannah’s shadow since childhood-they’d grown up together.
Yet there he was, watching coldly as Mia humiliated Hannah, doing absolutely nothing to stop it.
I was seething with rage when my assistant’s text came through:
“The food sample you sent in-it contained massive amounts of hormones…”
Chapter 9
happened.
Mia, at such a young age, was already this vicious.
Well, if that’s how she wanted to play, I wouldn’t let her get away with it.
