All Chapters of The Daughter Her Four Fathers Discarded: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

After Theodore shook off my hand and stormed out of the dungeon, I slipped out of the estate during the changing of the guards.Clutching the last of my cash and a small vial I'd swiped from Dad Gabriel's underground clinic, I stumbled to the old apartment my mother used to rent.Gabriel had once taught me it was a concentrated painkiller the Family used for quiet euthanasias.Injected intravenously, a person wouldn't struggle. They would simply fall asleep.Thankfully, it wouldn't hurt.Thankfully, I had been curious enough at the time to keep a vial.No one had lived in the apartment for a long time. Half the hallway lights were broken. I opened the door to the smell of old wood.A photo of my mother still sat on the windowsill. She couldn't have been much older than I am now.I hugged the photo to my chest and lay down on the bed.I pulled two syringes from my inner pocket and twisted off their caps. Gabriel had once guided my hand, showing me how to find a vein. He'd said if I ever

Just when I thought I was finally free from this endless suffering and could be with my mother.The System appeared again.It apologetically informed me that the cross-dimensional travel was experiencing a disturbance, and I had to stay stranded in this world for just a little while longer.I agreed indifferently.Since I had already endured sixteen years of separation, what were a few more days?And so, I floated in midair as a soul, coldly watching the reactions of the four men below.Theodore's fingers were still hovering beneath my nose.He slowly pulled his hand back and took a step backward. On the second step, his legs gave out, and he collapsed to his knees in the pool of blood beneath me.He reached out and shook my shoulder, his voice cracking completely. "Hazel, stop playing! Open your eyes!"His reaction horrified the other three men.Gabriel was the first to snap back to reality.He shoved Theodore off of me and pressed two fingers against the artery in my neck.In just tw

After the weightless sensation of passing through the space-time tunnel, I landed smoothly in a modern apartment filled with warm tones.The air in the room carried the mingled scents of freshly brewed coffee and freesia.I called out for the System a couple of times, but no one answered.Just as I was about to push open the door and check the living room, the bedroom doorknob turned, and a woman emerged.She was wearing a grey knit sweater and jeans, holding a mug in her hand.The moment she saw me, the mug slipped from her fingers and crashed onto the carpet.She stood frozen there, staring at those familiar features, and at the same time, I recognized her too.My mother, Elena.She was even more beautiful than in the photo.There were very faint lines at the corners of her eyes, but those eyes were exactly like mine.Just as I was standing there at a loss, overwhelmed by the massive shock, my mother began to cry. Tears fell one by one, dropping fast and heavy.She rushed over and pu

Once Gabriel broke down, the other three men collapsed as well.They all turned around and knelt before me with zero dignity.With red eyes, they recounted every single detail of how they had spoiled me in the past, desperately trying to prove that they had always cared for me in their hearts.Theodore tightly gripped the hem of my shirt and explained, "Hazel, the truth is, a lot of those cruel orders later on weren't our original intentions.""Stripping you of your title, cutting off your food, all of that was Zoe fanning the flames. We just wanted to teach you a lesson, we never meant to actually abuse you."Surrounded by these four once high-and-mighty mafia bosses, I felt a wave of revulsion and stumbled back several steps.Ultimately, it was my mother who firmly steadied my shoulders, asking in a low voice, "Hazel, how do you want to handle this? Are you willing to forgive these animals?"I coldly looked down at the four men on the ground, who were full of hope, and finally shook