“We were raising you. A wolf is what you are,
and now it’s as if we were just talking to it!
You caused your sister to do this!”
“Did you hear me? Stop pretending and come
back here now!”
I already knew what was going to happen, but
my heart was still shattered.
I didn’t get a good job last time, but I still
want them.
I was still able to get everything.
I texted back.
“No way! I’m not going to jail or paying for
her. Forget it!”
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“You told me to get out of the house and
leave the family. Don’t try to blame me now!”
Then, I blocked their numbers.
I turned off my phone, thinking about Blake.
He hadn’t said anything when he found out
about me the other night.
Why hadn’t he mentioned me at the police?
I asked myself why it didn’t even seem to
bother him; actually he looked at me and gave
me a smile, almost.
Before I knew it, I was flooded with
messages.
My parents had contacted the media.
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They were lying to everyone online.
They said I’d told Brittany to drug Blake and
sleep with him.
Now that she’d been caught, I was trying to
get her arrested.
They had a huge debt.
But I’d run away to enjoy myself.
People didn’t know the truth, but they’d seen
the rumors about Brittany and Blake.
They tore me apart.
They said I was calculating, trying to destroy
my sister.
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They accused me of lying online and
abandoning my parents.
Everyone called me heartless.
The hate filled the internet, and my accounts
were suspended.
Someone leaked my phone number.
Before I could report it, hateful calls came in.
I had to turn off my phone.
But they didn’t stop.
My home address was leaked online.
That night, paint was thrown on my door.
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Bricks broke my windows.
I couldn’t call the police, I just sat on my bed
until morning.
Around dawn, things went quiet.
I finally rested.
The next day, when I went to get my test
results, people stared.
I turned on my phone and saw that the hateful
posts had been removed.
Instead, everyone was talking about my
parents abusing me.
My former teachers and classmates said that
I wasn’t a bad kid.
I didn’t have enough money for books.
I had to use Brittany’s old textbooks.
I stopped reading.
When I got my results, Mom rushed over.
She snatched the report and slapped me.
“Bitch! You’re trying to make us feel sorry for
you! I have always known you were a bad
seed!”
“I got rid of your sister and now you’re
pregnant and trying to marry into the
Montgomerys! What a joke! You must be
crazy!”
Dad kicked me.
I nearly fell.
“Brat! You’re not married and you’re having a
baby! The Reynolds‘ family name has been
disgraced by you!”
“You act like a princess but will harm anyone!
Now who has harmed our family!”
Mom’s face twisted with rage.
“Riley, listen up. You will do as I say. I don’t
care if you approve of your sister, I don’t care
if she doesn’t either. You must get rid of that
baby!”
Just then, a group of police officers came in
and surrounded my parents.
Blake followed, looking furious.
“Call my child a bastard? You really said that
out loud! Don’t you know if you do that, you
will get into trouble!”
“Brittany doesn’t know who the father is!
Why you ask about that girl!”
He waved his hand, and the assistant showed
the security footage.
It showed Brittany being dragged into the
room.
My parents turned white.
“How could this happen?”
The guards shut them up and dragged them
away.
Blake took out a ring and knelt down in front
of me.
It all happened so fast, I couldn’t think
straight.
Logan ran over, holding a paternity test.
He hit Blake playfully.
“That’s it? I don’t approve! Do it again!”
He said that I was Logan’s sister.
I was the Reynolds daughter who’d been
missing.
I was the one engaged to Blake.
At the party, he recognized the birthmark on
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my neck.
He ordered the guards to knock me out and
send me to his room.
Logan rejected Blake’s proposal and took me
home to meet my real parents.
Mom and Dad cried, hugging me.
They took me to my old bedroom.
It took a long time to get used to my new life.
A month later, Blake remarried.
All of the city was there.
He said he’d loved me since he first saw me.
Our party was fate.
That day, the Jiangs went to prison.
Now, I didn’t have to be jealous anymore.
I had a brother.
I had parents.
I had Blake.
