She Outshines Them All (Athena and Matthew)

Chapter 346

Paityn was desperate to rush over, hug Josie, kiss her face, and tell her, "I'm your mother."

Sitting beside her, Saanvi said, "Athena's surrounded. You can get out now."

Paityn, wearing a sunhat and mask, opened the car door and looked toward Athena, who was about 100 feet away.

Athena and Maria had just gotten out of their car when a group of people rushed towards them, pointing cameras, camcorders, and phones at them, shouting loudly, "You're Zayn's sisters, right? We heard Zayn's relationship with the family isn't good. Is that true?" "We heard Zayn had a big fight with the family over who controls the earnings from his work. Is there any truth to that?"

"I have a gift for Zayn. Could you deliver it to him?"

The commotion quickly drew attention from the crowd, who began to gather and watch.

Taking advantage of the distraction, Paityn got out of the car and hurried over to Josie. She squatted down, showing Josie printed photos. "Josie, these are pictures of you before you were three years old. Do you remember any of them?"

Not wanting to scare her, Paityn refrained from saying she was her mother and instead tried to spark Josie's memory.

Josie didn't recognize her and stepped back warily. "Don't come any closer to Josie. This is a school. If you try to take me away, I'll scream for help."

said, "I'm not a bad person. I'm your family. Look at these photos and videos. They're of us

played a video of herself and Alina celebrating a

and glanced at the photos and video with curiosity for a moment, but she quickly lost interest and shook her head. "That's not me.

have." Paityn instinctively grabbed her arm. "You're the child in those pictures. Your real name is Alina, and the woman in the

she could finish, Josie screamed, "Ah! A bad person is trying to take a

once, all eyes turned

commotion, swiftly pulled out her custom-made, high-power pepper spray and unleashed it on the people blocking

in agony, dropping their phones and cameras, clutching their eyes and noses in pain as tears

and reached Paityn in seconds. She slapped the sunhat off Paityn's head, grabbed her by the hair, and angrily demanded, "How dare you try to abduct a child in broad daylight? Do you even care about the law?" Shocked, Paityn stammered

around, she didn't want to make a scène. So, she let go of Paityn's hair and said, "Get out of here. If I catch you bothering my child again,

crowd, Saanvi cursed under her breath. "Useless idiot." Then she pushed through the crowd and loudly announced, "She's Josie's mother. She's here to reconnect with her. No one has the

anything, Josie pointed at Paityn and screamed, "She's not my mom!

began shouting at Paityn, How dare you pretend to be her mother and try to kidnap a child? You look decent enough,

accusations felt like a knife to Paityn's heart. She could

lunged forward to embrace Josie, sobbing, Alina, I'm your mom. I'm your reat mother. Don't you remember? You used to say that I was the best and

Josie screamed louder, pressing her small hands

with all her might. "You're not my

in time, scooping Josie into her arms and shielding her face from the cameras. "Ms. Shepard, watch your words. This is