"Mila." Laura gazed at her and said, "I don't want to give up my job because I'm afraid that if he betrays me, I'll lose everything. I don't believe in marriage. I'm afraid.”

She paused briefly before continuing, “You know what? My father recently remarried and his new wife has a son. My mother passed away less than a year ago and my parents were deeply in love. I understand that my father can't live alone forever but I can't accept how he's treating me. Since he remarried, he doesn't even care about me, his own daughter..."

The thought of returning home to find her belongings thrown away and her room occupied by her stepmother's son filled Laura with shock and anger.

Her father had told her, "You're a girl and you'll get married someday. Besides, you don't come back home often, so I let your brother live in your room."

Laura was angry. The boy was not her brother at all. How could her father take care of someone else's child?