I Became A Millionaire And My Evil Stepdad Begged Me To Help Him

hi everyone my name is isabelle a few years ago my dad had a heart attack at work and passed away his sudden death changed our lives forever my mom had no job and no marketable skills either we had some money saved up from when my dad had been working at first we were getting by on that but soon that money ran out and things got bad we weren't able to pay our bills one day my mom said to me isabelle i want to talk to you about something important our landlord ted wants to marry me he divorced his wife four years ago he has two daughters but they live with her mom i don't know him that well but he seems like a good person i'm going to say yes i'm doing this for both of us please try to understand me my mom is a really beautiful woman i had only seen this man once before he's 10 or 15 years older than my mom he knew we were having money problems since we weren't able to pay the rent he was trying to take advantage of my mom no matter how much i pleaded with her my mom wouldn't listen to me and married him as i got to know him better it became clear that my mom had made a big mistake ted was an arrogant man who talked about his money all the time he was living on the rent money he got from his properties he had no other job he was home all day he was clearly using my mom as his maid for example every sunday he would hand my mom a list it spelled out one by one all the dishes my mom had to cook for lunch and dinner that week he would grade each dish after every meal and he wasn't very generous with the grades either the worst part was that the whole time he would talk about how good his ex-wife's cooking was my mom really wanted me to get along with ted i decided i would try to do my best i saved up my allowance to buy him a nice pen for his birthday my mom was insisting that i call him dad i wrote a little note saying to my dad with love and put it inside the gift box ted frowned when he saw the note i think it's too early for you to call me dad first you need to prove to me that you are my daughter he said i was so upset i glanced at my mom she felt terrible too it was around that time that something happened that made things even worse i woke up one morning and saw that there was another girl around my age at home it was ted's younger daughter pia she'd had a huge fight with her mom so she had decided to move in with us i'd just gotten a stepfather and now i had a step-sister too at first i thought maybe we could be friends but unfortunately pia turned out to be just like her dad one evening she yelled to my mom your food is too greasy i gained weight because of you but she was already chubby when she arrived i think that she's been like that since she was a kid she made that up just to blame my mom the thing that annoyed me the most about pia was that she was extremely jealous she was so jealous of me and she didn't even feel the need to hide it i'll give you one example i had an orange dress one day my mom had commented this dress looks good on you and i said yes i love it too when i wanted to put on that dress again a few weeks later i saw that there was a huge hole right on the front furious i went to pia and screamed did you do this she smirked and said of course i did who else after pia began living with us ted started treating me even worse pia didn't go to college because her grades were bad i on the other hand was a good student i wanted to study psychology in college i was talking to my mom about it she went and told ted he came to me and said don't even dream of going to college you're not smart enough for that that night i cried until morning i had to get out of that house but i couldn't see any way of doing that one day the miracle that i needed happened my phone rang the person on the line said i'm your grandmother i would like to meet you and your mom if you let me we met up the next day when my dad was only four years old my grandmother abandoned him he never forgave her for that in the years that followed she tried to get in touch with him many times but my dad refused to communicate with her she told us all about this in tears he was right because i'd left him i have immense regret however unfortunately it's not possible to turn back time my grandmother had just recently found out that my dad had died she thought we might be able to use some help with money so she tracked us down and finally reached me she told us my second husband was very wealthy i lost him last year i have no one to share this fortune with do you want to move in with me she asked my mom was pregnant at that time she said i have a new family now but i know isabelle is not happy she can live with you if she likes my grandmother seemed like a really nice person even if she wasn't i'd still move in with her since my stepfather and stepsister were making my life unbearable i agreed right away that night i said goodbye to my mom and left home my grandmother was really wealthy she lived in a magnificent mansion the best part was that she was even kinder than i thought she kept telling me i feel like i've been born again isabelle i'm so grateful to you for making me feel this way i'll send you to the best schools eventually all this will belong to you anyway i didn't care about being rich i was at peace now and that was more valuable to me than all the money in the world that summer something unexpected happened my grandmother suddenly died after an accident she went out on a tour of the greek islands with her close friends while swimming in the sea a poisonous fish stung her they didn't make it to the hospital in time she died on the way i was incredibly sad she had once told me when i die i'd like you to build a school so that my name can live on i immediately got to work to make her wish come true my mom and i talked on the phone a lot she had her baby i had a brother now i think she wasn't happy at all and her husband continued to treat her badly but she still never mentioned anything to me i told her come live here with me you don't have to put up with that man but she wouldn't listen to me my mom is a good-natured person and a loyal wife ted was taking advantage of her qualities one day my mom called me she sounded very sad your stepdad wants to visit you she said no way i don't want anything to do with him i yelled my mom said isabelle this is really important will you please see him for me i couldn't say no i wondered what he wanted from me ted came over the next day he wasn't that smug arrogant man anymore when he said isabelle we don't get along too well but i still like you very much i couldn't help but smirk that was an outright lie still i didn't say anything perhaps your mother has told you my daughter pia has a very rare very severe type of muscle disorder he went on i was shocked i said no i had no idea apparently my mom had kept this from me so as not to upset me with her own troubles my stepdad looked into my eyes and said my daughter is dying isabelle i came here to ask for your help i knew ted had a lot of money so i was confused what exactly do you want from me i asked there's a drug for pia's condition a single dose will be enough to cure her but this is the most expensive drug in the world it's only produced for 20 people every year i sold all my properties but i still only have enough money to cover half of its cost please help me with the rest my daughter can't move at all right now when it gets to her heart muscle she'll be dead i beg you help us after he said all that my stepdad started sobbing neither ted nor pia is a good person you know this already ted ruined both my and my mom's life my grandmother saved me from that house what would have happened to me if i'd stayed there would you help them if you were in my place you probably would without even thinking i told him i'll give you the money you need but i couldn't stop myself i don't think you deserve it but i'll still help you i continued ted started crying again you're right i don't deserve it i know it as well as you he said i was so sad to see pia she was all skin and bone she couldn't even move her eyeballs but she was conscious i whispered into her ear you will be fine but please be a better person in your new life even though i didn't want to say things like that i couldn't help myself the drug was really expensive but just as my stepdad had said a single dose was enough to cure her disorder her condition is improving every day even though she still can't talk i can see her thanking me with her eyes meanwhile my stepdad ted changed a lot since he was so deeply shaken by this he's no longer hostile my mom of course is really happy about his new behavior i'm busy with the construction of the school that i'm building in my grandmother's name my stepfather comes to help with the construction not expecting anything in return i don't think i'll ever have a close relationship with him but at least now i can rest easy knowing that he will no longer treat my mom badly you

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Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 20 2020