"You didn't treat me like this when you locked me up in the conference room and wanted me to bleed to death."
I sat down and looked at her. Even if I knew that Gina and Jeremy may be sentenced to life imprisonment, there was no emotional response in my heart.
They were my parents, but they were like two unrelated people to me.
Gina held the receiver and said excitedly, "It was your father who asked me to do this. I had nothing in the past few years, so I could only listen to him!"
"Hehe, he hasn't been my father since long ago." I held the receiver and looked at Gina through the tempered glass, "If it weren't for my good luck, I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you today."
If Patrick hadn't gone to find me.
I would have been dead.
During the two weeks in the hospital, the doctor said that if I had been sent to the hospital half an hour later, I might had died.
When she heard that someone saved me, Gina's eyes got wet again. "Charlotte, please let us go. We really lost our minds at that moment. I also advised Jeremy that since Shelton had been willing to give us money, then forgot it. But he didn't follow my words and insisted on getting your house."
"I almost died. How can I let you go? And as you are poor, isn't it good to live in prison to get food and drink for free?"
I spoke flatly.
In fact, it was better to stay in prison than to live such a bad life.
"No, I don't want to stay in prison for a lifetime." Gina pressed one hand on the glass, and her face was tightly attached to the glass. "Charlotte, please, just let us go, for I had been pregnant for 9 months to give birth to you."
"So what?" I sneered. "If Caroline and I weren't twins, I wouldn't believe you're my mother at all. How could a mother treat her child like this!"
"No, it's not like that..."
"At that time, both Caroline and I were on the boat. Generally, you would be happy if both of us came back. You were going to be glad too even if only one of us came back. But what about you? What did you do? If Caroline was there that day, would you treat her as what you did to me?"
Even if Gina didn't answer, I knew that they wouldn't.
A vicious tiger would not eat its cub.
In their eyes, I was not their child, but Caroline was.
Gina looked at me and said in a kind voice, "Yes, Caroline has been growing up with us, so we have deeper feelings for her. But over the past few years, we have been trying hard to accept you and treat you kindly. Affection can't be cultivated overnight..."
"So you tried to kill me for getting the house?" I looked at Gina, without any pity in my eyes, and said, "To tell you the truth, looking at Caroline, that good-for-nothing, I don't regret living in the Archer Family at all!"
Gina had been saying nice things to me.
But just as I spoke ill of Caroline, her face changed immediately and she couldn't hide her anger. She said to me, "What are you talking about? How could Caroline be a good-for-nothing? She..."
"What?" I interrupted her and asked, "How many times did I do homework for her at school? I even took the makeup exam for her. She found someone on the Internet to make the graduate project. It took her a lot of effort to get the Cowell
Family to set up a studio for her. In the end, she plagiarized a deceased designer's work. She didn't really earn a penny by herself and only relied on others to support her. She didn't contribute anything to society at all. Isn't she a good- for-nothing?"
I calmly complained about Caroline, and Gina's face was getting more and more gloomy.
Finally, when I questioned her whether Caroline was a good-for-nothing or not, Gina couldn't stand it anymore. She pounded the table and stood up. "What nonsense are you talking about? Even if Caroline doesn't do anything, we're willing to support her!"
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