Eighty-two: Deceit 3

That day, Amelia returned home still fuming from all that had happened. She was so annoyed that her lost father decided to return to her life and even had the audacity to claim to be her dad after so many years of abandoning her even before she was born. She also couldn’t believe that Jian had tricked her. Now that she thought of it, he’d gotten her mother’s picture from Liu.

As these thoughts plowed her mind, the realization that she was related to Lara and Jian struck her. She was their stepsister. It left a bitter taste in her mouth and she didn’t even want to think about how Lara would take it considering the previous drama that had risen between them all because of her relationship with Ryan. The situation was messier than it seemed and she hated being in the middle of it all.

Immediately after she got home, she ran into her bedroom and flopped on the bed, the tears she’d been holding slipping free. She was deeply hurt that Liu would choose this time to find her after all she’d b