Chapter 1

I had just finished performing a surgery and was very tired. Just as I was going to go to sleep, I could hear Jack and Ethan's voice coming from outside.

"Sofia Jones! Come out!"

"You fraud! How dare you cheat on me?!"

They were so loud that the surrounding patients and doctors looked in their direction. Before I could even go out and see what was happening, I heard one of the patients tell them to control their voice, but my father-in-law Ethan kicked her to the ground instead.

"Mind your own business, alright? Why are you helping Sofia? Be careful, or the man she's sleeping with is going to be your husband next!"

I quickly went over and helped her up before consoling her, asking if she was injured anywhere. Only once I was sure that she was alright that I dragged the two of them back home.

The moment I walked into the living room, I then saw the paternity test report on the table and my daughter locked up in a dog cage.

I frowned and turned to Ethan and my mother-in-law, Zoe Turner. "What's going on, Ethan? Zoe?"

Ethan pointed at the paternity test report and started yelling angrily. "What's going on? I'm the one that's supposed to ask the question? And here I was thinking why Cara doesn't look like me, and the answer is because you're cheating!"

On the test conclusion, it was written that Ethan and Cara weren't blood related at all. Only then did I realize that Ethan had done a paternity test. I quickly opened the cage and hugged Cara. "Cara, can you tell Mommy what happened?"

"I waited at school for a long time, but no one came to pick me up. So, I came home, but Grandma didn't let me in. Then an older man said he likes me a lot. Then, I was locked in the cage."

I could feel my blood boil as I turned to Jack, who was watching from the sideline. "Even you won't trust me? How can you allow them to take Cara to perform a paternity test? How can you treat her like that?"

Jack turned around and refused to look into my eyes. Ethan pointed at Cara and said, "A trash like her is worth less than a dog! The only reason I let Jack marry you is because you look fertile, but not only did you give birth to a girl, she's not even Jack's daughter!

"How dare you let our family raise the child of another? How shameless can you be? Hans said that he's planning to buy Cara to clean up their place. We've raised her for so long and we've already fulfilled our obligations."

I held Cara even tighter. Everyone around here knew Hans Black loved to drink and even physically abused his own family. However, his family was rich and managed to obtain a mental health assessment report claiming that he was mentally ill. Not even the cops could do anything if they were here.

Ethan was so brutal. He didn't bat an eye even when he offered his own granddaughter as a sacrifice.

"Cara is definitely this family's child. There must be a misunderstanding. I've been working hard to support this family and I'm so busy frequently that I only have time to take a nap in the on-call room, and you said I've been cheating outside?"

Jack immediately grabbed a wine glass on the table and hurled it at me as soon as I finished my sentence. "I trusted you, but not only did you betray me, you refused to acknowledge it even now? Looks like you're not going to admit everything until the final moment!"

Cara quickly covered my ears when she heard what Jack was saying, "You can't say to Mom! Mom won't do something like that! I'm your daughter! If you don't believe it, I can do the test with you again."

Ethan glared at Cara and said, "Shut up when the adults are talking. Also, are you saying that Jack isn't my son?"

Ethan had just wanted to raise his hand at Cara, I immediately shielded Cara and Jack managed to catch Ethan's hand in the final moment.

"We'll run another test."