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.

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

inside, she saw many

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

man turned, his eyes filled with redness

towards her, arms

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

Madisyn stood bewildered.

why was he

gazes of the peasant couple

with confusion, finally

“Mom, Dad, what’s happening?”

heavily, his voice weary with the

not

of the Chapmans, but you… you

Our baby was stillborn.

motioning towards the well-dressed

is your real

noting

man produced a document from his briefcase, his

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

reunion with their real daughter, I

test confirms my suspicions—-you

report, Madisyn saw the undeniable proof

it, their similar

response was a silence filled with

in

man continued, “It’s a lot to take

is

born, there was a tragic error at the

a nurse’s negligence, three families

child was declared stillborn and mistakenly given to us, you

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

how much

anxiously at the hotel,

by his sincerity, Madisyn nodded slowly, her

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