She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 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 glasses, 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 my company..."

"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 dollars 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 dollars!" Paityn roared. "Now, can you just get

lost?"

was now visibly enraged, his brow

about?"

he continued, "I'm willing to accept, nurture, and turn her into

biological mother, shouldn't you be happy

at Damon in disbelief, unable to fathom how his

her love. She doesn't even know who you are. Now, she's grown up-beautiful, smart, and talented-and

change that.

only I'll be more attentive to her than

Paityn looked at Damon as if he was crazy. Instead of being angry, she laughed mockingly. "Do you really not know how

only reason you're accepting her now is because of her talent,

as a

she's just a tool for you to achieve your

you have a husband. Do you think we can divorce our respective partners, or do you think we can publicly declare Alina our biological daughter?" This sentence silenced the string of words Paityn had been preparing to

helplessness, and pain. Her chest felt so tight that she could barely

rational," Damon sighed deeply. "You're afraid I'll take Alina away from you,

by your side, how could she become

words landed like a

ground, struck by a bullet aimed directly at her vulnerable spot, as if she

to argue, to retort, but the pain in her heart was so overwhelming that her vision blurred, and

we can do now is clarify things with the Donovan family and acknowledge Alina privately," Damon said

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,

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