BuzzNovelKaren's tone was as flat as a calm lake, utterly devoid of emotion. She was simply stating the facts.
Seventeen years. For seventeen straight years, Karen had never spoken to Ileana in this way.
lleana’s face changed, her smile freezing awkwardly on her lips, teetering on the edge of tears.
“After they sentout of the country overnight, | changed my phone and number. Mom, you know I’ve never
been good at remembering Dad’s and my brothers’ numbers. There must be smisunderstanding. How could
they possibly block
me?”
She forced a laugh, but only she knew-Karen wasn’t wrong.
When Ileana couldn't find anyone at the old apartment, she had tried calling them, one after another. She dialed
nearly everyone except for Ivan Morton.
At first, she thought maybe she was out of credit, but her phone worked fine otherwise. Then she suspected her
phone was broken, so she handed a hundred bucks to the current tenant and borrowed his. This time, the call
connected quickly-but as soon as Brendan Morton and Ethan Morton heard her voice, they slammed the phone
down. Zachary Morton and Liam's numbers would ring, but no one ever picked up.
That's when it hit her: she’d been blocked.
She couldn't bring herself to believe it, so she kept dialing, one number after another, until eventually, even the
borrowed phone was blocked, and the annoyed owner snatched it back.
The only reason she'd found this address at all was because a neighbor she vaguely remembered had taken pity
on her and passed it along.
“Mom, this is just a big misunderstanding. I'm your daughter, aren’t I? The daughter you raised for seventeen
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“Then go ahead and die!” lleana had barely finished her words when Brendan's voice rang out behind her,
cutting like a knife.
She spun around. Brendan stood there with a grocery bag in one hand, Alessia at his side.
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“Dad!” she cried.
“Don’t. | don’t deserve to be called your father. Your real dad is Scott, CEO of Tate Holdings. As for me, | do have
a daughter-her nis Alessia, and she’s standing right here beside me. Anyone else? | don’t know them. Not
my problem.”
His words were blunt, every syllable dripping with sarcasm.
“But Dad, I'm the daughter you raised for seventeen years!”
“That's right, seventeen years! You remember that, do you? For seventeen years, | worked myself to the bone,
but you never missed a single meal. And what did you do? You had a full plate and still went looking for more
elsewhere. | can honestly say | never wronged you, not once. But you-did you really think I didn’t know why Ivan
ended up the way he did?”
lleana’s eyes widened in shock, as if she couldn’t believe even this secret was out.
She snapped her gaze to Alessia, jabbing an accusatory finger at her. “It was Alessia, wasn’t it? Dad, she’s lying
to you! She’s framing me!”
“Enough!” Brendan pulled Alessia behind him, his patience finally gone. “Karen, call security. Get her out of
here.”
“Of course. Con in, quickly.” Karen nodded, opening the door for them.
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She gasped, feeling the sting on her scraped palm.
“Dad, I'm bleeding! Mom, look-I"'m bleeding, it hurts...” Huge tears rolled down her cheeks as she held out her
injured hand for them to see.
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