The Betrayed Heiress Is Now the CEO’s Obsession novel Chapter 532

The first time Mia met lan, she was only nine years old.

Her mother, Sharon, held her hand and smiled brightly. “Say hello to your new brother.”

The little girl tilted her head up at the tall boy in front of her, pressed her lips together, and obediently said, “Hi, brother.”

The boy didn’t look the least bit pleased.

He stared down at her with open mockery and disdain, then gave a sharp snort. “Don’t call me that. I’m not your brother.”

Mia’s face fell. She looked up at her mother, eyes wide and uncertain. “Mom… he doesn’t like me.”

Sharon’s smile froze awkwardly.

Lester shot his son a glare. “Ian, this is your sister, Mia. From now on, we’re family.”

“I don’t want a sister!” Ian’s face flushed with anger as he yanked on Mia’s pigtails. “This is my house! Get out! My mom only has one child, and that’s me! I don’t have a sister!”

“Ian, what are you doing? Let go of her!” Lester barked.

Mia cried out in pain, tears spilling down her cheeks. “Mom! Mom!”

Sharon hadn’t expected Ian to react this way. She rushed to pull him off her daughter. “Ian, let go. You’re hurting your sister.

The boy glared at both Sharon and Mia, his voice full of defiance. Get out of here! I don’t want a stepmother, and I don’t want a sister!”

Smack!

Lester’s hand came down hard across his son’s face.

Breathing heavily with fury, Lester snapped, “This is not your decision to make! Let go of her right now!”

Ian released her pigtails, a red handprint now visible on his cheek. Fine, then I’ll leave! I don’t need you as my dad either!”

That same day, Ian ran away from home.

He was only fourteen, still in middle school, headstrong and in the thick of his rebellious phase.

Sharon looked at Lester in alarm. “Ian, he…”

Lester’s face was dark, his anger far from gone. “Leave him. When he runs out of money, he’ll come back.”

Lester was right.

Once lan left, Lester cut off his allowance. Ian’s few hundred dollars in cash ran out quickly, and he ended up crashing at a classmate’s house. By the third day, the classmate’s father politely hinted it was no longer convenient to have him stay

There was nothing “inconvenient” about it. Lester had clearly paid them to send lan packing

So lan gathered his things, wandered the streets for a day, and the stunk back home.

He came in through the back door, where he ran into Mia playing with her Barbie dolls in the garden.

Mia froze. She was still a little afraid of him, so she pressed her lip together and said nothing

“What are you staring at? Keep looking and I’ll gouge your eyes o” Lan barked, his face tierce.

Mia burst into tears on the spot.

“What are you crying for? All you do is cry!” he shouted again, he obs grating on his nerves. He stomped over, snatched her

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Barbie, and threw it to the ground. “You annoy me just by existing

Mia cried even harder.

The noise brought one of the housekeepers running.

“What’s wrong, Mia?”

She stopped short when she saw Ian standing there, dirty and disheveled. “Ian, you’re back?”

Just then, Lester happened to be home. Hearing the commotion, he came out to see what was going on.

One look at the Barbie on the ground and Mia’s tear–streaked face, and he didn’t need to guess what had happened.

Grabbing Ian by the ear, Lester scolded, “You little brat, did you bully your sister again?”

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And just like that, Ian–who had only just returned from running away–got a solid beating from his father for picking on his

sister.

That day cemented the grudge between them.

Up until Mia was in middle school, it was entirely one–sided. Ian delighted in tormenting her–slipping bugs into her schoolbag, spiking her milk with laxatives, even taking scissors to every Barbie doll she owned and leaving them bald.

Chapter 533

Chapter 533