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.

arriving, she noticed the disrepair of her biological parents’ home, the air filled with muffled cries that pulled at

she saw

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

man turned, his eyes filled with redness

rushed towards her, arms

believe that you’re really alive!” The tall,

Madisyn stood bewildered.

was this man and why was

the teary gazes of the peasant couple

with confusion,

“Mom, Dad, what’s happening?”

his voice weary with the weight

are not your real

the Chapmans, but you… you are

Our baby was stillborn.

motioning towards the well-dressed

is

to the stranger, noting the undeniable

document from his

at the hospital, something about you struck me, though I dismissed it then,” he explained, his voice

Chapmans’ reunion with their real daughter, I had to know if perhaps,

test confirms my suspicions—-you are indeed my

the undeniable

without it, their similar

silence filled

new twist in her already complex narrative, overwhelmed

“It’s a lot to take in, I

is

night you were born, there was a tragic error at the

a nurse’s negligence, three

to us, you ended up with the Chapmans, and

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

how much

waiting anxiously at the hotel, hoping to

sincerity, Madisyn nodded slowly, her

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