No Way Back by Anna Mac

Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Abandoned In A Fire

A fire broke out, and it quickly spread across the entire room.

Jane Fowler collapsed to the ground, motionless, her body racked by coughing fits from inhaling the thick smoke. Her eyes welled up with tears as she fought for air.

The ash that covered her face and her disheveled hair was not enough to hide the natural and unspoiled beauty of her features.

She was under the influence of something because she was paralyzed and couldn’t move a muscle while wondering when exactly she was drugged.

“Jane, gosh, you look disastrous,” Madelyn Fowler said as she approached, wearing a gas mask.

She was kneeling next to Jane, and from her white dress and gentle tone, she seemed like a sweet, innocent little girl.

Or at least, that was Jane’s long–held belief.

“Did you drug me, Madelyn?” Jane cried out, her expression one of shock and disbelief.

Jane just couldn’t wrap her head around the idea that her sweet, innocent sister could be capable of such vile acts.

“It’s just a test, Jane,” Madelyn replied, removing her gas mask to reveal a sly grin. “I’m interested to see if our family would believe more in you or me when they see this.”

Madelyn then placed her gas mask on Jane’s face and smeared a bit of ash on her own cheeks.

Then, with a gloved hand, she pulled a small knife from her pocket and deliberately sliced open her own arm. The wound was gushing with blood.

Madelyn tossed the knife aside and took off her gloves, which she then slid onto Jane’s paralyzed hands. After that, Madelyn clenched her injured arm and yelled at the top of her lungs, portraying an expression of pure terror.

yelled, “Help! Daddy, Mommy! Help me! Janie has gone

while

and seven brothers rushed to Madelyn’s aid, Jane watched

and said she wanted to die with me.

blood and her terrified, deer–like eyes, Jack Fowler glanced over at Jane, who was lying on the floor with

Jane hard in the stomach, growling, “I don’t know how I managed to

force of the kick nearly twisted Jane’s

the suffering in her heart far outweighed the physical pain

was as if it were being torn

had once taken a bullet for

with him when Jack attended a business

into the event, brought a gun with

Jane who had bravely stepped in to block the bullet, while Jack and Madelyn

she was

her wounds.

Fowlers didn’t come to see Jane in the hospital until a few days

think about it.

hour away

be more accepting of her situation. Madelyn had always

scant hour later, Madelyn called to say she had an emergency, so

with their family history might assume that Madelyn was their biological daughter and that Jane

Jack at his word because he was her father and the family she had spent so much time and energy seeking. Blood, as they say, is thicker than water,

abandon her.

gave in to almost everything Madelyn

Madelyn wanted, Jane

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