Bella's POV “I always told you that you never belonged to this family, Bella. You thought I was joking,” Rebecca muttered audibly, loud enough for me to hear as I walked toward the dining table to have my dinner.“For an orphan to even dream of becoming the matriarch of the Hayes family. Oh my, poor people truly think the world is filled with wishing horses,” she continued, her laughter light but poisonous.I kept silent the second time she said it.“Come on, Bella. What even gave you the audacity to think you deserved that?” she added, turning toward me this time, not even attempting to hide the mockery in her eyes.“You have no career, nor are you famous in the business world. You’re literally nothing, just a parasite surviving off my brother because my father willed it. So what made you think you would one day belong to this family?”Her words were sharp.Rebecca never spoke to me like this whenever her father was home. But since he had traveled abroad for a business meeting two w
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