'So, Nicole isn't my real sister!?'
Thinking of this made Scarlett's heartbeat quicken. But then, she froze. She looked at her father in shock.
"Dad... You mean I was adopted!?" She stammered. Surprised to learn about her identity.
There was a worried glint in Jonathan's eyes, seeing Scarlett's face pale. "Nicole is not my daughter, and neither are you..." He wanted to say that. But for some reason, it seemed like someone had stopped the sentence from the tip of his tongue. He swallowed back his words.
After a while, he cleared his throat before saying, "...Nicole isn't my daughter!"
"W-H-A-T! Dad, how can Nicole not be your daughter!?" Scarlett was confused.
She still remembers that her father remarried before her sixth birthday. And he told her that Nicole was his illegitimate child with Lauren. Since then, she started to hate her father for betraying her mother.
