She Outshines 336
“From the day you gave up on Alina, she was no longer your daughter!”
Paityn said this to Damon in her guest room.
Given their status, it was impossible for them to discuss such private matters in the hotel corridor.
She had to suppress her anger and only dared to speak after bringing Damon upstairs to her guest
room.
“Paityn, calm down.” Damon never let his emotions override his rationality. His tone was steady.
“We both had our reasons back then. I was left with no choice, but I’ve done my best to make up for
what happened to you and Alina. Please don’t bring up the past again.”
“I also think that we have nothing to do with you anymore,” Paityn sneered. “So why are you looking
for Alina now?”
Damon adjusted his sses, his eyes lighting up with fervor. “You can see it too. Alina has a unique
singing voice, and she’s my daughter. I want to nurture her and make her a superstar that the whole
world will be obsessed with!”
“Therefore, I want to acknowledge her and sign her to mypany…”
“In your dreams!” Paityn said angrily. “Alina is my daughter. I raised her. You haven’t raised her for a
single day. You’re not worthy of being her father!”
“I won’t let you take her away!”
“Give up on this idea!“.
“You’re at it again,” Damon frowned. “After Alina was born, even though I couldn’t be by her side, I
gave you around 10 million dors in child support. I also did everything I could to suppress the
news of her birth, protecting your reputation and ensuring Alina could grow up like a normal child.”
“I’ll pay back that 10 million dors!” Paityn roared. “Now, can you just get
lost?”
Damon stared at her, who was now visibly enraged, his brow furrowed in confusion. “What exactly
are you so ang
about?”
“Alina is our daughter,” he continued, “I’m willing to ept, nurture, and turn her into a superstar.
Isn’t that a good thing for her?”
“As her biological mother, shouldn’t you be happy about that?”
Paityn stared at Damon in disbelief, unable to fathom how his mind could work this way.
“Alina is my daughter, raised by me alone!” she said, tapping her chest. “You never gave her love.
She doesn’t even know who you are. Now, she’s grown up–beautiful, smart, and talented–and you
just want to take her away from me.”
“I am not taking her away,” Damon interrupted her. “You’re still her biological mother. No one can
change that. I won’t take her away from you. I just want to sign her and nurture her.”
“Just like training other singers, only I’ll be more attentive to her than anyone else
“Heh, hehe…” Paityn looked at Damon as if he was crazy. Instead of being angry, sheughed
mockingly. “Do you really not know how cruel it is for you to say this?”
“You’ve never given Alina any fatherly love. The only reason you’re epting her now is because of
her talent, not because you
love her as a father.”
“To you, she’s just a tool for you to achieve your dreams.”
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“Then what do you want me to do?” Damon interrupted her again, calmly asking, “I have a wife, and
you have a husband. Do you think we can divorce our respective partners, or do you think we can
publicly dere Alina our biological daughter?”
This sentence silenced the string of words Paityn had been preparing to scold Damon with.
Her eyes were filled with confusion, helplessness, and pain. Her chest felt so tight that she could
barely breathe.
“Paityn, be rational,” Damon sighed deeply. “You’re afraid I’ll take Alina away from you, but can you
keep her by your side?”
“If you could keep her by your side, how could she be someone else’s child?”
These wordsnded like a death sentence, crushing Paityn’s heart.
Paityn felt as if she were standing on the execution ground, struck by a bullet aimed directly at her
vulnerable spot, as if she had died once again.
She wanted to argue, to retort, but the pain in her heart was so overwhelming that her vision blurred,
and breathing became a struggle. For a moment, she couldn’t find her voice.
“All we can do now is rify things with the Donovan family and acknowledge Alina privately,”
Damon said calmly. “Then we’ll raise Alina together, making her a global superstar, and give her
everything she deserves.”
“You, you….” Paityn held onto the wall with one hand and pointed at him with the other. She knew
what he said was wrong but could not think of a response. After a long pause, she said, “When you
didn’t want Alina, you ignored her. Now that you see her talent, you want to acknowledge her as
your daughter, but you don’t want to make it public. What do you think she is?”
“How much better are you than me?” Damon replied quietly, but each word cut deeply. “If you really
loved her, why would she have contracted polio? Why would you have handed her over to someone
else and married into a wealthy family?”
Another bullet pierced through Paityn’s heart.
She clutched her chest, nearly fainting, her voice hoarse as if she were drowning. “I… I had no
choice…”
“I understand your struggles and choices,” Damon said. “That’s why I won’t me you. Please, don’t
treat me as
enemy.
He nced at his wristwatch, paused for a few seconds, and then said, “You’re too emotional right
now. This isn’t the right time to talk.”
“Alina still has to participate in the finals next week. If we approach her now, it will definitely affect
her mentality and state.”
“I suggest that we wait until after the finals to reach out to Alina. You should take this time to calm
down and reflect on what I said.”
With that, he turned around and strode away.
The door closed behind him.
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Left alone, Paityn felt her vision darken. Her stomach cramped painfully, and she clung to the wall,
gasping for breath as if she were a dying fish.
She hated Damon.
She hated Damon for deceiving her and abandoning her and their child.
But more than that, she hated herself.
She hated her weakness, uselessness, past selfishness, and cold–heartedness, and… even if she
acknowledged Alina now, what difference would it make?