Chapter 406

She was silent, and so was Neil, his head bowed low.

“I hold a total of 35% of the shares. I’ll give Tricia 20%, and you 15%.

Maja felt a bitter sting, not knowing what to say.

She was always left behind.

Dumped by the Leo Elston family, dumped by lan, and now, dumped by Neil.

She never felt needed.

She was once told she mattered, only to be ditched without a second thought.

“Maja, Lillian gave up her painting career to take care of you, and that’s why her health deteriorated.”

The weight of such a favour left Maja feeling at a loss.

“If you’re not my daughter, then you’re definitely not Lillian’s either. Maybe we got the wrong baby at the hospital. I don’t know whether Lillian’s actual child is dead or alive or where she is, but I hope you can find her.”

Neil closed his eyes, weary.

“I don’t have much time left. I overheard the doctors talking when I was discharged. I only have half a year left.”

word from Neil added to Maja’s mental

to take over the Pennyfeather family’s company, or if she didn’t search for the child Lillian gave birth to, she would feel guilty for not repaying the Pennyfeather family’s kindness and for not

over two decades ago, Lillian was the only one who

deal about this. The old folks said that back then, there were many abandoned baby girls on the streets, left in baskets, with nobody daring to pick them

baby girls starved or froze

girl who was switched out, Lillian’s actual daughter, probably didn’t survive.

surviving were very

for Lillian. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken her away from Crystalbrook

work, they raised a child that wasn’t their own.

hand trembled

yet she felt

a deep breath and slowly

you find your biological daughter. But if Tricia hurts me again, I won’t let it slide. Only if she behaves

a year left to live, didn’t bother with

his deathbed that the child

and his guilt towards

hoped, for now, was that Maja could help

acumen, she shone from an early age. Even studying in the impoverished Crystalbrook Valley, she managed to get into the top–ranked Solstice

had such outstanding genes it was hard to believe she was his

hand clenched into a fist under the

his

a table full of food that had completely gone cold, which

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