"Phelicity Adams, listen and listen good, there is no room for you in this house after you and your mother robbed everything off my daughter and I let me warn you, I won't give you a single reason to stay here and enjoy the peaceful life," Beatrice said with a hint of hate and regrets in her eyes.
"You had everything since young How about me? I had nothing, You are schooled in the most famous schools how about me? Since you are such a 'good' sister, shouldn't you be happy to let me enjoy these things?"Michelle asked.
"Or do you want us to help you get the hell out of here?" Beatrice asked.
"Well Mother it seems we get work here we will have to help her get out of here," Michelle said. After some time phelicity still couldn't understand what these two were talking about, She had been nothing but polite to these people what had she ever done?
"Mother, Sister... what are you talking about?" Phelicity's voice was a whisper, but her eyes remained steady behind her glasses.
"Everything, Phelicity!" Michelle snapped, her face contorted.
"Why does Dad dote on you? It's been so many since your mother died, yet her pictures still haunt every wall. Is it fair?"
"Yes phelicity, you have done everything wrong, Why must it always be you? Why does Dad dote on you more than me? How long has it been since your mother's death? 9 years, but your dad, my father never treated my mother as a woman, All he can do is hang your mother's pictures everywhere, tell me is it fair?" Michelle has been brainwashed by her mother completely.
Phelicity looked at the sister she had served for years.
"Elley, I have washed your clothes with my bare hands. I have been a maid in my own father's house while you went to the best schools. I dropped out at twelve so you could shine. Does Dad even know his 'precious daughter' is a grade-seven dropout?"In this house have always prepared your meals for you, am more of a maid in my father's house when dad is not around, have I ever complained about these things? When your mother forced me to drop out of school I did it gladly, I was just a 12-year-old girl back then, Does Dad know about this? You say am his precious daughter, okay, does he know that am your maid? Does he know that am a grade 7 dropout?"
Phelicity couldn't help but ask. Hasn't she given everything to them? Do they know what she looks like? Do they know her appearance? She puts on a mask every day just for them to be satisfied and yet it's not enough for them, what else?
"Aaah..! Phee do you think that we wronged you? Take a closer look and look around you, things have changed" Beatrice said.
"Your dad no longer comes home, because he doesn't want to see you. You don't resemble your mother and you don't resemble him. Do you think that all this your dad didn't know? He knew everything. You are not our Adams blood, And here are the DNA test results. You can have a look, you are not our blood sweary so wake up, The reason why we brought this up, is for you to realize that it's your time to move out and take care of yourself " Michelle said.
"But why now?" Phee's weak voice asked.
"Because we are tired of feeding a dog in our house," Michelle said.
"Your mother didn't tell you who your father is but I will tell you, your father maybe was a rapist, a thug, or anything that can't be said or to be proud of and now I want you out of this house, " Mrs. Beatrice said.
"Okay, I will pack my things" Her voice was weak and trembling.
Things have come to this point what can she do? She can only leave the house, at least to gain her freedom. But now one thing she is sure of, the man she has always called father and has always pretended to love her as a daughter was not her father. She also made a decision not to look for her real father and focus on the things she has always longed for. She has been studying online at one of the best universities in Imperial City and therefore she had to see what her university looks like, She is now a third-year student, and thanks to her stepmother, she dropped out of school, But could still sneak to the nearest internet cyber to do her studies online. She was well known in the cyber and she always had her seat well reserved for her, and her specific desktop.
"Phee, I'm an old woman, and I've lived long enough to see the truth. I won't ask why you aren't in school, but if you are serious about your studies, this corner is yours."old madam Lina said.
All these years she has achieved many things and with different identities, she has met potential masters all over the world but she was too scared to meet people. But now she has found reasons to be herself and never to hide in the shell.
"Phelicity, I hope you are not taking anything from our family with you?" Beatrice asked.
"Don't worry I won't and I hope you are not hiding anything that belongs to me" she asked.
"What can we take from you? Phelicity stop wasting time though it's late at night. We only wish for my father to come back home today and nothing else therefore excuse us" Michelle said.
"Well thank you for telling my deepest secret and for helping me with a place to stay all this time, I mean no one can do that to anybody, And tell Dad that I appreciate his love for me even if he pretended not to love me, tell him that I appreciate it, thanks for the food. As for education? I wanna say thank you cause you have helped me understand that I could have owed you, people, much, but since school is out of the picture I owe you, people, nothing. With the help of the lawyers from the Adams, they will help me and sign this document that we owe each other nothing and when we meet in the future we won't call each other sister, mother, or father and you too will not mention how you took care of me" phelicity said.
And immediately the door was pushed open and three lawyers were standing right there.
"Hello, Miss Phelicity," the lead lawyer said, bowing his head slightly. "We have the documents prepared as you requested."
"Wait, what is this?" Beatrice demanded, her voice shrill. "How do you know the Adams family legal team? Phelicity, what have you done?"
Phelicity didn't look at her. She turned to the lawyers. "I want you to witness this. Since I am told I am not an Adams, and since I am nothing but a 'grade-seven dropout' in their eyes, I want to sever all ties. No debts, no blood, no future claims."
The lead lawyer frowned, looking confused. "A grade-seven dropout? Miss Phelicity, what are you talking about? We have been processing your tuition payments for the Imperial University for three years. Your father, CEO Adams, explicitly us your allowance was to be 30% higher than Miss Michelle's because of your high honors."
The room went deathly silent. Michelle's face turned a ghostly shade of white.
"What tuition?" Phelicity asked with a cold, sharp smile. "I haven't stepped foot in a classroom since I was twelve. Ask my stepmother where that money went. Or better yet, ask her why I've been scrubbing the floors while Michelle spent my allowance."
"We didn't know about this we are sorry " "In that case, your mother left you something, she knew a day like this would come, and when you called we decided to give it back to you This jade pendant she left it for you, and those are the words written on it," the lawyer said.
"You... you little brat!" Beatrice lunged forward, but the lawyers stepped in her path.
"Careful, Mrs. Adams," the lawyer warned.
"If what Miss Phelicity says is true, this is not just a family matter—it's large-scale financial fraud. However," he sighed, opening a leather folder, "Miss Phelicity has requested a clean break. Sign these papers. It states that from this moment on, you are strangers. If any member of this family attempts to claim a relationship with her or contact her intimately in the future, they will face a penalty of one billion dollars."
"One billion?" Michelle gasped, then let out a sharp, nervous laugh. "Fine! Give me the pen! I'd pay two billion just to never see her pathetic face again. She thinks she's winning? She's a homeless nobody!"
With a shaky hand, Beatrice signed. Michelle followed, her signature a jagged line of spite.
"It's done," Phelicity said, taking her copy of the document. She looked at the lawyers.
"You mentioned my mother left me something?"
The lawyer nodded, his gaze softening with pity.
"She knew a day like this might come. She left this in our vault, to be delivered only when you signed a severance from the Adams house." He handed her a small, velvet box. Inside lay a deep green jade pendant, cold to the touch and glowing with an ancient elegance.
"At long last," Phelicity whispered, the weight of the house finally lifting off her shoulders. "I am free."
She walked to the Internet cyber, she knew it was too late at night but she had to come here and spend her night and travel to the Imperial City tomorrow morning.
The old lady had gone home, so she couldn't bother waking her up or troubling her.
At the Adams residence***
"Where is phelicity I haven't seen her around," Mr. Adams asked.
"Dad, we threw her out as you wished," Michelle said.
"And she won't be a problem to us anymore," Beatrice said.
"Okay, I just hope she won't cause us a problem in the future"
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