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.

her biological parents’ home,

she saw many

a man in a clean, elegant suit, surrounded by bodyguards, stood in front of a weeping

man turned,

rushed towards her, arms

really you! I can’t believe that you’re really

Madisyn stood bewildered.

and why was he

the teary gazes of the peasant couple before

voice, shaky with confusion, finally

“Mom, Dad, what’s happening?”

sighed heavily, his voice weary with

are not your real

the Chapmans,

Our baby was stillborn.

towards the well-dressed

is your

stranger, noting the undeniable similarities

produced a document from

hospital, something about you struck me, though I dismissed it then,”

hearing about the Chapmans’ reunion with their real daughter, I had to know if perhaps, there had been

test confirms my suspicions—-you are

saw the undeniable proof in black

without it, their similar features

response was a silence

in her already

“It’s a lot to take

is the

there was a tragic error at the

three families

given to us, you ended up with the Chapmans, and Jenna was

devastated, thinking we had lost you,”

have no idea how much

anxiously at the hotel, hoping

nodded slowly, her gaze shifting back to

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