Chapter 3

To, you’re awakel Madelyn shot to her feet, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.

If the hospital director Hadn’t agreed to the operation last night. Josie would have died in Henry’s absence.

“Oh, my Jo. You don’t owe Henry anything

Josie was the eldest daughter of the Gibson family.

Henry was nothing more than an heir who John adopted.

“Owe…” Josie mumbled with a hoarse voice.

“When Grandpa forced Henry to marry me, I already owed him,” she thought.

“But I don’t owe him anything anymore now…”

Josie took her mother’s family name. Her mother was a dancer with low status, but her father, Hayden, had a crush on her

mother.

In that era, parents‘ orders were absolute commands. John objected to Hayden’s marriage to her mother. Despite Hayden’s persuasion, the Gibson family members wouldn’t let her mother marry into the Gibson family.

Josie was envious of her mother. At least Josie’s father didn’t give in to the pressure from his family members. He eloped with Josie’s mother to a place where no one knew them and lived an ordinary life.

When Josie was 15 years old, her parents had a car accident.

Josie watched her parents die in front of her and hadn’t dared to ride alone in private cars ever since.

and took her back

was still the eldest daughter

to the Gibson family, John had already been

old, and Josie was 15

I will protect you from

a pair of gentle eyes when she shrunk herself into a ball in a corner of

like wine. The longer it aged, the better

was quiet and obedient, so

away three years ago, Henry was able to manage the Gibson Corporation alone and led

was the favored son and the only

Henry was adopted. If he wanted to gain the full inheritance right to Gibson Corporation, he had to marry her, a woman with

to hide her because her identity was a shame

legitimate daughter of the Gibson family, then

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Gibson family?

sensible and obedient. She obediently agreed when Henry asked for a secret

her to pretend to be strangers if they ever ran into each other

апуспе.

had never missed an anniversary or birthday in their

everything as long as you be good. No one can threaten your

never what

in the shadows of the

those ten years, she gleefully formed a family with him, thinking someone would

greedy for Henry’s warmth to a state where she almost lost

in the secret dream Henry

Yet he was with that celebrity… Madelyn didn’t want to hurt Josie, but she

at the film festival a few days ago?” Madelyn pulled up the photos with trembling fingers on her phone. She knew Josie

into her heart. It didn’t bleed, but it

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