As I was just about to clarify the facts, Patrick took my glass, sighed deeply, and said, seemingly unintentionally, "We didn't have a hard time, but James recently quit his job. He was going to start his own business, so he just borrowed my money."

My hand froze in my pocket again.

When I looked up, Patrick looked meaningfully into my eyes.

I forced a smile. "Dad, it was just a scam call, and I was joking with my Mom."

Patrick sighed in relief, his eyes filled with a relieved smile.

"I knew you wouldn't be that inconsiderate.

"Go to bed early."

The next day, Bryce knocked on my door, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Bryce Wellington was my boyfriend.

We had a fight over something not long ago, and we had been in a silent treatment for two or three days.

He apologized to me humbly.

"Eleanor, it's all my fault, okay?

"Please forgive me.

"I'm just upset that your parents favored James. They transferred the house to James' name, so I was defending you, and I was genuinely being nice."

"My parents transferred the second house to James' name because the taxes on it were too high."

I couldn't resist using Patrick's rhetoric.

However, after what happened yesterday, it was as if a thorn had grown in my heart, and I felt a vague pain.

Bryce hesitated and kept his mouth tightly shut.

His hesitant look made me even more annoyed.

I pushed Bryce out the door and threw the flowers he had brought with him into his arms.

I don't want to think about anything, so I start playing with my phone alone in bed.

Then, I saw James showing two property deeds in Instagram, both with his name on them.

In addition, there were several massive transfers from Patrick.

It was another one of my Instagram accounts.

I had never chatted with James since I added him, and he had probably long forgotten it was me.

That was why he dared to flaunt it so recklessly on Instagram. "It's a blessing to be favored by my parents!"

I was stunned, feeling so frustrated.

Even until my tears fell drop by drop on my phone, I still couldn't understand what favoritism meant.

Did they favor James?

I was trying hard to remember the past.

When I was a little girl, all the toys in our house were double.

They never treated me poorly with any of the necessities of life.

Sarah had even always bought me tons of dresses because of the wide variety of girl's clothes.