“Then, have you ever thought about how people will look down on me, how they’ll trample on my dignity in the future?” I snapped back.
“You’re young, beautiful, well–educated. Mr. Sutton genuinely likes you–he won’t treat you badly.”
“Katherine, don’t be naïve. Do you know how many people would kill for the chance to marry into the Suttons?”
“I told you I won’t get back together with Jasper.”
I took two steps back, sneering at my two brothers. “If you’re so desperate for this great marriage deal, why don’t you sell your own daughters?”
“Katherine, if you’re going to be this heartless toward your own family, then return everything our parents gave you and cut ties with the Robinsons completely.”
“Fine, I will.”
Maybe because they saw I was completely unmoved, Keith frowned.
“Katherine, you’re young and naïve, easy to make foolish decisions. When you get married one day, you’ll
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understand the importance of your family. Don’t wait until it’s too late to regret it.”
I couldn’t help but laugh.
During my teenage years, I’d felt pain, confusion, frustration–I even tried to end my own life.
I couldn’t understand why our parents showered my two brothers with love but treated me with nothing but cold indifference. I sank into deep self–doubt for a long time.
But later, I accidentally found out that I was just an abandoned baby the Robinsons had adopted. And they’d only taken me in as a tool for securing a profitable marriage alliance.
How much genuine affection could there ever be for a tool?
Once I figured that out, I slowly learned to save myself, climbing out of the dark dead–end in my heart.
I returned the apartment and the car to the Robinsons.
Even the 200,000 dollars I’d saved over the past two years after graduation through work and part–time jobs–I gave it all to my parents.
I would do my best to repay the kindness of being raised. But my marriage? I wanted to hold that in my own hands.
When I left the Robinsons, everyone’s faces were dark with anger. That severance agreement, stamped with all their names and fingerprints, said it all.
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