The Steeles also sought me out.Marie looked haggard, and her hair had completely turned gray. She held my hand and wept with anguish. "Piper, please help your dad. We don't have enough money for the surgery. He's going to die. Please save your brother, too. The loan sharks have driven him to the point where he's thinking of ending his life."I pulled my hand away and looked at her frostily. "You've come to the wrong person. My last name is Shaw, not Steele. I don't have a dad or a brother.""But you're related to them by blood!" Marie yelled.I walked away without responding.Damon died three days later in the hospital because he couldn't afford the surgery. As for Yves, he fell from the third floor while trying to flee from the loan sharks and was left paralyzed.Marie, unable to bear the blow, lost her mind. She scavenged through trash on the street every day, muttering, "Piper, I made some soup for you."Rhea, who was living with a broken leg, had to beg for alms under the o
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