Ch. For Adopted Daughter, My Parents Ruin Me Ch 24 For Adopted Daughter, My Parents Ruin Me Ch 24

Chapter 8 

Oliver buried his face in the scarf, his body trembling slightly. 

He had watched me pick up the shattered pieces from the trash, and from behind me, he coldly mocked, “Once it’s destroyed, it’s destroyed. No matter how hard you try to put it back together, it’ll never be the same.” 

His words were loaded with meaning. I understood them, and for a brief moment, the hand gripping the scarf froze in mid–air. But in the end, I stubbornly took it with me. 

From the bedroom came the muffled sound of crying. William and Lucas leaned against the door, peering through the crack to look inside. 

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It was clearly the first time they’d seen my room–small and dim. 

Lucas was visibly stunned. After all, he’d never entered my world before. 

He walked over to my wardrobe, a small, somewhat worn closet that held all my clothes, no matter the season. Everything in here bore the marks of time, the only difference being the small bed in the center. 

That bed had been replaced after one night when the frame collapsed. The sheets and mattress had been pierced by splinters of wood, digging into my body. 

Even now, I might still have some of those splinters lodged in my waist–ones I couldn’t pull out at the time. 

“More than ten years… we misunderstood 

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her for more than ten years.” 

“She should’ve been the oldest daughter, growing up happy and healthy in the Hawthorne family. Instead, she was trapped in this broken place.” 

“We made her sick. To make her apologize to Sophie, we locked her up at home, made her miss the SAT, and prevented her from going to college.” 

It was only when Lucas said these things that I unearthed painful memories I’d tried so hard to bury. 

Sophie had lost her beloved hairpin, and the only time I’d been home, studying for the SAT, was when it went missing. 

I had been filled with hope, thinking that once I got into college, maybe I could finally 

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start over. 

But that seemingly simple dream was crushed, stomped into the ground by their cruelty.. 

I still remember that day. Sophie was lying on William’s chest, quietly sobbing. 

Through her tears, she struggled to describe the last time she’d seen the hairpin. Then, she whispered, “Isabella even said it was pretty.” 

Just like that, I became the one who’d stolen it. No matter how many times I explained, they never believed me. 

They wanted to lock me up, force me to admit I’d stolen her hairpin, and only then would they let me go. 

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I banged on the door, crying, begging them to let me take the exam, promising that after I finished, they could do whatever they wanted with me. 

At first, I heard a few sarcastic remarks, but soon… silence. Total silence. 

In that massive mansion, only my cries echoed. 

Two days later, they finally released me because Sophie’s hairpin was found. She’d simply misplaced it after using it. 

Through all of this, all I ever wanted was one apology from them. But it never came. 

Instead, they just warned me, reminding me what I should and shouldn’t do. 

I felt like Cinderella, trapped in this tiny attic, 

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while she ran free. As for me, I remained 

confined to this life