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I Built Him Up, He Tore Me Down
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Three days before my engagement party, my dad, Mike Kemp, makes a pot of wild mushroom stew at home. He says the wild mushrooms from Westhaven are the freshest, so it makes the perfect meal to welcome Vance Topp back home. Vance has just secured another round of funding. Everyone praises me for having such good judgment and betting on a promising young entrepreneur. But without my money, how could a broke man like him have gotten this far? I paid for his first lab with the money I got from selling the painting my mom, Peggy Roth, left for me. I also put my trust fund up as collateral to secure his first round of funding. On top of that, the company's most valuable anti-allergy formula is based on handwritten notes Mom left behind when she died. Luckily, Vance isn't some ungrateful jerk. Right now, he's gently ladling soup into my bowl. "Eat more, Tiana. You've lost weight from all the wedding planning." I'm about to say something when my stepmother, Brie Upton, who is right beside Dad, laughs. "Vance, you're still as considerate as ever." Brie is only a few years older than me and has been pretty well-behaved since she married Dad. Aside from being a little materialistic, she's never given me any trouble. We've always been cordial toward each other… Until tonight. The stew looks especially tempting, so Vance has two drinks and eats more than half a bowl. A moment later, his expression shifts and he stares at the chandelier, giggling. "Brie, I miss you so much." I freeze. Dad's expression hardens, his brows furrowing. "Vance, are you drunk?" Vance suddenly grabs Brie's hand. In the dead silence around the table, his voice comes out slurred yet affectionate. "We're almost through the hard part. Once I marry Tiana, the trust fund that her mom left behind will be ours."
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I had changed my last name to Mom's. From then on, I was just Tiana Roth. I wasn't Mike's daughter or Vance's fiance. I was about to go onstage when a security guard came over in a hurry. "Dr. Roth, an investor from Zethor wants to see you."I furrowed my brows. "Tell him to leave if he doesn't have an appointment."The sound of someone calling my name from the entrance stopped me cold. I looked up and saw a stranger standing there. Then I saw his eyes.I recognized Vance at once. The way he looked at me was sickeningly familiar.He smiled. "I'm out. Brie changed her testimony, and most of the charges ended up falling on her. I was only her accomplice. Tiana, I came to find you.""Get lost!" I snapped.He acted like he hadn't heard me and kept walking toward me. "I know you hate me. But I've been thinking about you every day for the past year. I even changed my name and had plastic surgery. Let's start over."It seemed that in his eyes, some wounds could be erased with a singl
I Built Him Up, He Tore Me Down Chapter 10
He looked at me, his voice betraying a hint of nervousness when he spoke. "Tiana, I'm Richard. I'm your father."Richard Sinclair was nothing like I had imagined. I thought he would be emotional and full of guilt, desperate to explain everything that had happened back then. Instead, he just stood three steps away from me, so restrained that it was almost as if he were afraid to come any closer."I have no right to ask you to acknowledge me. I just heard you were going abroad, so I came to see you."I tightened my grip on the USB drive Mom had left behind, my throat growing tight. "You knew I existed?"He nodded. "I did. When your mom was pregnant with you, something happened to my family. By the time I dealt with it and came back, she had already married Mike and refused to see me. Later, I went abroad for treatment and lost touch with everyone back home."Richard's voice remained calm, but I noticed how tightly he was gripping his cane, his knuckles turning white."All these y
I Built Him Up, He Tore Me Down Chapter 9
"Mike, you abandoned me first."He lowered his head and said nothing.I placed the signed papers on the nightstand. "Starting today, Aaron will be your temporary medical power of attorney. I'm leaving the country. We don't need to see each other again."As I turned to leave, I heard him cry quietly behind me. I didn't stop.I had just reached the elevator when Aaron's phone rang. Whatever he heard made his expression change."Ms. Kemp, Vance has requested to see you. He says he knows where your mom hid the last set of experimental data."I decided to meet him for Mom's sake.Vance sat behind thick glass in a jail uniform. He looked nothing like the man who used to be at the top of the world. His eyes lit up as soon as he saw me. "You really came."I picked up the receiver. "Talk."Vance smiled bitterly. "You can't even be bothered to speak to me now?"I frowned, my patience wearing thin. "You have three minutes left."Vance pressed his lips together before finally speaking.
I Built Him Up, He Tore Me Down Chapter 8
People started chattering.I looked at Brie, feeling strangely calm. "My mom didn't cheat on her husband. When she married Mike, he knew she was pregnant with me. He took resources from the Sinclair family and signed an agreement to raise me and keep everything confidential."Do you want me to put them on the screen now?"Brie had wanted to tear me down completely. She never expected that I already knew everything.I kept going. "It doesn't matter whether I'm really part of the Kemp family. What you should know is that everything my mom left behind never belonged to the Kemp family, and it certainly doesn't belong to the Topp family."At that moment, the hospital called. Aaron answered, and his expression shifted immediately. He handed me the phone.A nurse's hurried voice came through the line. "Ms. Kemp, your father is awake. He's very upset after watching your livestream."I paused.Mike was awake.Brie's eyes lit up, and she called out through her tears. "Mike, you have to
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