He? he cheats on me?
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Terry exclaimed, “Even though Amanda has returned, we still consider you our closest family! And she never once thought about taking anything from you!
“How could you be like this?”
Terry looked at Amanda in front of him, pale but still beautiful.
It was all because the Hacker family and the Powell family had taken such good care of Amanda over the years.
Terry couldn’t help thinking of the first time he had seen Amanda a month ago, emaciated and barely clinging to life, as if she might die at any moment.
Terry thought, “It turned out that Amanda was my biological sister, who we had collectively sent back to the hellish Ouray, where she had endured endless suffering.”
Terry walked towards Grace and said, “How can a person be so greedy? While you were living in comfort and luxury in the Hacker family, Amanda endured abuse, starvation, and freezing conditions at Ouray. You’ve already received so much, and now that she’s back, you still want to harm her…”
Terry smiled bitterly.
“We were all fools. For your sake, Mom and Dad abandoned their own daughter, and I turned my back on my own sister, too. We were… so stupid!”
Chapter 15
Listening to Terry’s words, Adam felt a sharp pang of pain spread through his heart.
Adam thought, “If only time could be rewound. And if only I could go back seven years and stop all of this from happening!
“But in this world, nothing can ever be redone.
“What’s done is done, and the harm caused can never be undone.”
At the same time, Kim remained silent.
Suddenly, Kim slapped Grace with a resounding crack.
Grace covered her bruised cheek and looked at Kim in disbelief.
Kim, however, had a calm face and a disappointed look in his eyes.
At that moment, a flood of emotions overwhelmed Kim, and the slap Grace received was the least of it.
“Dad!”
Kim looked calmly at Grace and said in a cold tone, “You don’t deserve to call me Dad anymore.”
Kim turned red–eyed and said, “Didn’t you just say you were not part of the Hacker family? Since that’s the case, we will pay back what we owe Amanda. And of course, you must pay back what you owe Amanda, too!”
The last few words were spoken with intense emotion, a reflection of Kim’s chaotic and aching heart.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
Terry, who was the first to come out of his trance, closed his eyes, and the tears silently ran down his face.
Terry looked at Grace.
“You are a thief, a criminal, and I will never forgive you for the rest of my life!”
After those words, Terry left his suffocating home without hesitation.
Terry stumbled for a moment and almost fell when he walked out the door.
In fact, anyone would struggle to accept that the person they had been defending all along was actually the worst of them all.
And what about the person who had been misunderstood all that time?
She must have been so desperate and heartbroken.
Terry dared not to think that.
At that moment, Grace stood still like a piece of wood, her face alternating between red and pale.
Grace actually felt that the word “thief” from Terry carried more weight than that slap, leaving her even more ashamed and utterly humiliated. “Adam, 1…”
The moment Grace opened her mouth, Adam’s cold and merciless gaze silenced her in an instant.
Adam was not only cold in appearance, but also he said in an unprecedentedly cold tone, “You don’t deserve to call my name anymore.”
“But, is there really no room for reconciliation between us because of this incident?”
Grace did not understand.
Grace thought, “I’ve grown up with Adam since childhood.
“Is Adam going to dismiss all these years of shared history, just because of Amanda, who appeared out of nowhere, and because of a few mistakes I made?”
“Weren’t you the one who cherished me the most? Why couldn’t you forgive me for making a mistake?”
Grace looked sincere, as if she genuinely wanted an answer.
Adam sneered, “I see that until now, you still think what you did wrong was just a minor thing.”
“Isn’t it true? Amanda just returned to the place where she grew up since childhood, and stayed there for seven years. She didn’t die, indeed!”
