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,

she

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

absorbed the surreal tableau, the man

towards her, arms open

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

Madisyn stood bewildered.

this man and why was

absorbed the teary gazes of the peasant couple

shaky with confusion, finally broke the

“Mom, Dad, what’s happening?”

heavily, his voice weary with the weight of untold

we are not your

rightful daughter of the Chapmans, but you… you

Our baby was stillborn.

motioning towards

man is your real

flickered to the stranger, noting the undeniable similarities in their

a document from his briefcase,

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

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

confirms my

the undeniable proof in

even without it, their similar features spoke

a silence filled with

twist in her already complex

“It’s a lot to

is

night you were born, there was a tragic error

to a nurse’s negligence, three

stillborn and mistakenly given to us, you

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

no idea how

waiting anxiously at the hotel, hoping to finally

by his sincerity, Madisyn nodded slowly, her

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