Chapter 1 Thrown Away Like Trash The fire roared , spitting heat and smoke into the night . +10 Free Coins Tilda Jenson lay crumpled on the dusty floor ; her body too weak to move . Smoke scraped down her throat , dragging cough after cough out of her lungs . Tears streamed uncontrollably , stinging her eyes . Her hair was a tangled mess , her face streaked with soot , yet nothing could hide her natural beauty . She couldn't move . Someone had drugged her completely paralyzed her . When had it happened ? A sweet voice slipped through the chaos . " Well , you look awful , Tilda . " Kyla Jenson walked toward her , wearing a white dress and a gas mask . Her voice , light and innocent , was the voice of a little girl who could never hurt anyone . At least , that's what Tilda had once believed . " It was you ? " She rasped , disbelief widening her eyes . " You drugged me ? " Kyla was her younger sister in name . " This is a little test ," Kyla said , smiling behind the mask . " When Mom , Dad , and all our brothers walk in and see us like this ... Tell me , who do you think they'll believe ? You , or me ? " She pulled off her mask , fitted it gently onto Tilda's face , then smudged ash across her own cheeks . Pulling on a pair of gloves , she slipped a cutter from her pocket and drew the blade across her own forearm . Blood poured down her wrist . She tossed the cutter beside Tilda , peeled off the gloves , and slid them onto Tilda's limp hands . Clutching her bleeding arm , she twisted her face into an expression of terror and screamed loudly . " Help ! Daddy ! Mommy ! Someone help me ! Tilda's gone crazy ! " The warehouse door slammed open . อ . ศ 4 O 1/4 Sep Chapter 1 Thrown Away Like Trash " Kyla ! " 79 % +10 Free Coins Tilda watched as her parents and all seven brothers rushed right past her - straight to Kyla . " Dad , Mom , it hurts ! It really hurts ! Tilda went crazy ! She tried to set me on fire and said I don't deserve to be a Jensons ! She even cut me ! " Their eyes swept over Kyla's bleeding arm , her tear - streaked face , and her trembling like a wounded rabbit . Then their gaze shifted to Tilda - slumped on the floor , a gas mask covering her face , the bloody cutter at her side , gloves on her hands . " Russell Jenson's face twisted with fury . He charged at Tilda and drove his foot into her stomach . " How did I end up with a daughter like you ? You disgust me ! " " The kick tore through her insides . Her body ached , but her heart hurt even worse . She felt like her body was shattered into pieces . This was the same stomach that had once taken a bullet for him . She remembered - years ago , Russell had taken both girls to a business event when a man burst in with a gun . Without thinking , Tilda had stepped in front of him and taken the bullet , leaving a hole in her stomach . But Russell had fled with Kyla , leaving her bleeding on the floor . It was the police - not her father - who got her to the hospital . She'd gone straight into the ICU , clinging to life by a thread . Days later , the Jensons finally remembered her . They only left Kyla's side for a single hour to visit Tilda in the hospital . Russell had looked guilty . But the only thing he said in his defense was , " Kyla is your little sister , and she's adopted . Now that we've found you , she's afraid of losing her place in the family . As the older sister , you should be more understanding ." O 4 ||| O 2/4 23:11 Thu , Sep 4 Chapter 1 Thrown Away Like Trash 379 % +10 Free Coins And just like that , something came up with Kyla . The whole family rushed off in a hurry to take care of her . From the way they treated her , anyone looking in would have thought Kyla was the real daughter . And Tilda ? She was nothing more than a stand - in . A placeholder . Still , she believed him . She actually - pathetically - believed him . Because he was her father . Because she had waited so long to find her family . Because blood was supposed to mean something . She told herself the Jensons would never truly abandon their birth daughter . So , she gave in to Kyla - again and again . Whatever Kyla wanted , she handed over . Every gift , every opportunity - Kyla chose first , and Tilda took whatever scraps were left . She convinced herself that if she kept giving and kept sacrificing , they would eventually accept her . That someday , they would love her as their own . Looking back now , what a joke . What a pathetic , cruel joke . She stared , hollow - eyed , as Kyla was carried out of the burning warehouse , surrounded by frantic concern and urgency . And they left her behind - like trash no one wanted . The flames closed in . Pain ripped through her as fire consumed her skin . The searing heat swallowed every breath , every thought . She could smell herself burning . Tilda shut her eyes . A single tear slipped from the corner . O 4 111 3/4 23:11 Thu , Sep 4 Chapter 1 Thrown Away Like Trash This life ... I've done enough for them . 79 % +10 Free Coins I've paid the Jensons back in full - with my life . My obsession with family . My desperate hope . All of it- paid in full . If there's a next life , let's just be strangers . That night , the news broke across Slosa : an abandoned warehouse on the outskirts had gone up in flames . One charred body was recovered . But before it could reach the hospital for an autopsy , it mysteriously vanished . The next day , the Jenson Group released an official statement : We have severed all ties with the girl we once believed to be our biological daughter . From this day forward , Kyla Jenson is the only daughter we recognize . Whatever Tilda Jenson did - or whatever became of her - is no longer our concern . And just like that , the girl who had once set gossip blogs ablaze as the Jensons ' long - lost daughter faded from the headlines - replaced by newer , juicier scandals . Forgotten .