18. WHAT A SELFISH MAN...

"She did it, not me. I refuse to take the blame for Imelda," Anna said.

" Your younger sister is a popular celebrity now, with a bright future ahead. She can't let her reputation be ruined because of something like this. So you must take the blame for your sister.” Tomas said roughly.

Anna was just numb, coz all these people in front of her, none of them were her true family.

They were relatives, them being related by blood was something that cannot be denied, but they were not her family.

"So my future being ruined is not important?" Anna asked sarcastically.

The guilt Tomas had for Anna vanished when he remembered how Imelda could not be acknowledged as his daughter because of his marriage to grace.

"You're just an assistant, you don't have much future ahead anyway, if worse comes to worst, you can become Imelda’s assistant even after you are released from jail. Anyway, you won't be jobless. But it's different for Imelda, she has such a bright future and her career is just rising. The competition in the entertainment industry is very fierce, and people get replaced so fast. If she doesn't appear in front of the public for a while, she will get replaced by someone else. Much less to say being sent to prison. It'll leave a black mark on her career forever and she can never return to the entertainment industry after being released.” Tomas said shamelessly.

To him, he felt like he had considered a lot for Anna. Using a voice, he believed to be benevolent he persuades Anna.

“Anastacia, don't worry, you're also my daughter, and I will definitely do what's best for you. I will spend more money and use my connections to reduce your sentence as much as possible. Also, haven't you always been busy because of your mother's illness? I know that her medical fees are a lot, and you have no savings all these years, spending all your money to help treat her illness."

Ha!

"My mother?" Anna was extremely angry that she had started trembling, "She was your ex-wife! How can you use that and say that it's your gift to me? I have never asked you to take responsibility for her illness, and have never used a single cent of your money to treat my mother, but this doesn't mean that you can be so heartless and forget what she had given up for you! You're using this as a condition in exchange for me going to prison? If I had agreed just now without you offering to do this, does that mean that when I'm in prison, you won't care about her?"

She had experienced this once in her past life and thus knew very well what Tomas would do.

Towards his ex-wife, he could act like this.

What a selfish man!

"You want me to take Imelda place to go to jail? Impossible!" Anna glared viciously at Tomas.

"You have always only acted as Imelda’s father, not mine! My father is the man who would carry me onto his leg when I was young, tell me stories and ask me how my day at school went. He would rather wear old clothes that he had owned for a few years and buy me new clothes, to dress me up as a princess." Anna continued viciously.