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.

that year and took her

her, she was still the eldest daughter of the Gibson

John had already been raising

18 years old, and Josie

protect

of gentle eyes when she shrunk herself into a ball in a corner of the mansion that unwelcomed her. Josie fell in love with Henry

of youth was like wine. The longer it aged, the better the

obedient, so

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

Henry was the favored son and the only heir of the

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

her because her identity was a

of the Gibson family, then

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Gibson family?

sensible and obedient. She obediently

to pretend to be strangers if they ever ran

апуспе.

at home. He had never missed an anniversary or birthday

give you everything as long as you be good.

was never what Josie

the shadows of the stars was

years. During those ten years, she gleefully formed a family with him, thinking someone would finally protect and care for her for the rest

was greedy for Henry’s warmth to a

the secret dream Henry

died last night. Yet he was with that celebrity… Madelyn didn’t want

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

as though a knife had stabbed into her

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