Chapter 46 They Cheat Me (2/2)

”But, I am your daughter, and you can tell me anything. Why would you keep something like that from me?” Emily couldn't hide the disappointment in her voice any longer. She realized that they never trusted her.

”Emily, I...” At last, having run out of excuses, Debby murmured.

The both of them waited in silence until it was dark. Soon, Andrew staggered home, drunk.

Emily frowned at her father's blushing face and asked, ”Dad, where have you been?”

Still inebriate

o hear that her father was not sick, but at the same time she was heartbroken at the fact that her parents did not trust her with the truth.

She was the only daughter in the family. Her mother was kind to her, but her father had always been hard on her ever since she was a child, perhaps due to patriarchal reasons.

They never seemed to treat her as family, Which made her unhappy.

”Because they didn't trust me, and they kept it from me and deceived me for my money. I really don't understand. I am their only daughter. If they had other children, I could understand their reasoning... Why is it like this?”

Jacob didn't utter a word, he just listened to her talk. He did not know that her parents were lying to her, that's why he didn't interfere in the matter before.

”You know what they say about karma: what goes around, comes around.”

”But they are my parents.” In a very depressed tone, Emily blurted out, ”We are not the same, and you wouldn't understand.”

An awkward silence surrounded them as she spoke. Regretfully, Emily realized that she had said something wrong.

”I'm sorry, I didn't mean...”

”It's okay, ” Jacob answered apathetically. He was the adopted son of Mr. Gu and he had already forgotten everything about his biological parents, so he wasn't bothered by what Emily had said.