Anna's POV
Once again, the sound of my mother's scream woke me up from my memories. Every communication with my parents seemed to be torture for me. I didn't really get it as a kid; I just instinctively could do anything to get my parents' attention. I knew I was so pathetic.
It seemed like it was time to grow up.
I tilted my head and tried to let the tears in my eyes fade.
"Mom, yes, I am the sinful child who brought you calamity. All your misfortunes are because of me. I accept all your curses. What do you want?"
I walked up to my mother, grabbed her shoulders, and slowly brought my face close to hers.
My mother struggled frantically in my hands and screamed.
"But mom, look at my face," I grabbed her chin and forced her to turn her face so her eyes could look directly into mine, "mom, its me, I'm not Matthew, Matthew is dead!"
I squeezed those words out of my mouth word by word.
"No, no, he must still be alive, I know it, I always knew it." Her voice was full of trembling and fear.
Strangely enough, I felt all the sadness and anger disappear as I watched this beautiful woman crumble before me.
"No!!!" I held my father off the floor in my arms while using one hand to stop my mother from getting any closer to him. The other hand pressed against the wound on my father's head it was very large and kept bleeding as her fist landed on my back.
"Elizabeth!" Dad kept calling my mother's name. I looked for help to my uncle Joshua who had been very silent from the beginning
"Uncle, help me, call 911."
His big smile slowly unfolded in front of me.
"Okay, anna, as long as you sign this, I'll help you get your father to the hospital."
He took a piece of paper out of the folder in his hand and handed it to me.
My mother seemed to snap out of her frenzied attack on me. She lunged forward to grab the piece of paper, "No, Joshua, you promised me that he had to die no matter what."
"Don't worry Elizabeth, it's just like I promised he would die."
Joshua dodged her hand and handed me this document, "Sign it! Anna, this is very similar to the contract your father gave you today, except for the billion dollars you weren't given, and you need to give up your inheritance unconditionally."
He slowly and methodically turned the ring in his hand.
"No, don't sign it," my mother said, still desperately trying to grab the paper.
Joshua impatiently pushed her to the ground and looked at her with contempt and condescension
"Now you remember you're her mother, don't you? Don't play mother-daughter love in front of me! People from families like yours are monsters, do you have anything else in your eyes but money and power?OH, I forgot, there's also the insane possessiveness that only a madman like my brother has."
His eyes were cold and devoid of any temperature.
"Joshua, don't you have any guilt? My father is your brother, he's the one who gave you your career and power, without him you would have been begging on the streets." I yelled at him angrily.
"He would even kill the child he raised for over ten years, little Anna, you think he would care about me, his half-brother? You're still too naive, sign him and I'll call the doctor over to my dear brother if he can still wait." His words struck me like a bolt of lightning.
I felt like I couldn't find my tongue and could only stare at him in disbelief. He looked at me and my mother with a contemptuous smile.
"Mom, what is he talking about? why can't I understand ?" I asked my mom, dumbfounded.
My mother began to bawl, burying her face deep in her hands.
My uncle laughed happily, "Your father is a hypocrite, he has been telling everyone that your mother is his true love, but he clearly had the opportunity to save your brother, but he did not do anything. Your mother didn't even see Matthew's body, and when Elizabeth arrived at the hospital that day, she only got a bottle of ashes. He wouldn't let Matthew inherit the Browns' property no matter what. So he just asked the bodyguard not to save Matthew. "
My hand pressed against my father's wound slowly loosened and I looked down at him. Dad was completely unconscious, just lying there in my arms like a dead man. If I didn't do anything, he would die quietly like Matthew. For a moment there, I really was gonna leave my unconscious dad, crazy mom, dead brother, noting-to-say fiance, my bullshit responsibilities, and the Group and run away. As soon as I was gone, I would never have to care about all this bullshit mess again. Take my money and go far away to a place where no one knows me and never come back. I'm too tired to care about this shit anymore.
"I was wondering how our family could have such an emotionally oriented child. You are so different from our family members. Now it seems that you are just like your father. You know, the apple and tree! Now, you can leave. Anna."
My uncle's voice called me back to my senses
No, I can't be like him, I can't.
"If I sign, you can have someone come in and save my father, right?"
"No one will be able to walk in or out of here without my permission." My uncle said briskly.
"Ok,I sign it."