Chapter 3

Jenna’s sudden agility was startling-didn’t she say she couldn’t stand up because of her injuries?

Realizing her mistake, Jenna collapsed onto the sofa, clutching at her legs with exaggerated distress.

“Ah, my legs! They hurt so much!”

Jeffry’s response was not of anger but of a guilt directed towards Madisyn.

““Madisyn, please understand, Jenna is still very young.

Don’t hold this against her…”

Madisyn had heard this excuse too many times.

“Of course, I wouldn’t retaliate if a dog bit me.

After all, it picks up such behavior from its owners, right?”

With a final sneer that cut through the tense air, Madisyn shouldered her modest bag and strode towards the door, her steps resolute and unwavering.

She did not look back at the family she was leaving behind.

The trio she left in her wake seethed in fury.

Outside, the driver waited, oblivious to the turmoil that had unfolded within the walls of the Chapman family’s house.

Since Jenna’s return, respect for Madisyn from the household staff had waned significantly-even the driver withheld the customary greeting as she approached.

Ignoring his presence, Madisyn strode past him, her posture straight with resolve.

The driver, catching up to her with a hint of urgency in his steps, called out, ““Madisyn, I have been told to drive you to your destination.

Madisyn halted, turning slightly to deliver her response, her tone icy, “No need.

From this moment, I want nothing to do with the Chapman family.

With those final w

rds, she hailed a cab and told the driver the address Jeffry had previously sent to her phone.

The destination was a humble, rundown village, far from the opulence she had known.

she noticed the disrepair of her biological parents’ home, the

she

in a clean, elegant suit, surrounded by bodyguards,

Madisyn absorbed the surreal tableau, the man turned, his eyes

rushed towards her,

really you! I can’t believe that you’re really alive!” The tall, imposing man’s

Madisyn stood bewildered.

and why

of the peasant

with confusion,

“Mom, Dad, what’s happening?”

voice weary

we are not

daughter of the Chapmans,

Our baby was stillborn.

motioning towards the

is

flickered to the stranger, noting the

a document from his briefcase, his

when I first saw you at the hospital, something about you struck

their real daughter, I had to know if perhaps, there had been a

paternity test confirms my suspicions—-you

Madisyn saw the

even without it, their

silence filled

this new twist in her already complex

continued, “It’s a lot to take in,

is the

there was a

nurse’s negligence, three families had their Lives

was declared stillborn and mistakenly given to us, you ended up with the Chapmans, and

and I were devastated, thinking we had lost you,” he

have no idea how much

anxiously at the hotel, hoping

nodded slowly, her gaze shifting back to

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