Reclaiming Her Heart

Chapter 406: Always the One Left Behind

She fell silent, and so did James, his eyelashes drooping..

"I have thirty-five percent of the shares. I'll give Alice twenty percent and you fifteen."

A bitter taste filled Selena's mouth. She didn't know what to say.

Indeed, she was always the one to be left behind.

That was the case with her uncle's family, with Raymond, and now with James.

She had never been needed by anyone.

Once someone said she was important, but they didn't hesitate to leave her behind.

"Selena, Barbara gave up her painting career to take care of you, and that's why her health went worse."

This debt of gratitude weighed heavily on Selena, immobilizing her.

"If you're not my daughter, then you're definitely not Barbara's either. Maybe the hospital made a mistake back then. Whether the child Barbara gave birth to is dead or alive, or where they are, I don't know. But I need you to find out." James closed his eyes wearily.

"My days are numbered; I overheard the doctors talking during my last hospital visit I have only half a year to live." Every word from James made Selena under the gun.

the Fair family company, if she

be ungrateful for the Fair family's upbringing, for Barbara's protection of

years ago, only Barbara wouldn't care

issue. The older generation said that at that time, many abandoned baby girls were found on the roadside, placed in baskets, with no one daring

by a nurse, then the baby girl switched to Barbara, the daughter Barbara gave

that era, the survival rate for baby

wouldn't have taken her to flee Ridgefield

all the hard work the young couple put in,

slightly

hadn't done anything, yet it felt like

breath and slowly stood

Fair family, and I promise to find your biological daughter. But if Alice is still unkind to me after she comes

death suddenly realizes that the child carrying all his late wife's memories is

daughter his wife gave birth to remain

but resent Selena, and any guilt towards

he wanted was for Selena to

always excelling academically, even after transferring to a poor county like Ridgefield, she managed to get into the best Harvard University.

hand inside the blanket clenched into

the hatred. Where was the daughter he and Barbara

table of food that

her mouth