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.

company, if she didn't find the child

Fair family's upbringing, for Barbara's protection

care whether she gave birth to a boy or a

many abandoned baby girls were found on the roadside, placed in baskets, with no one daring to

girl switched to Barbara, the daughter Barbara gave birth to, might not

era, the survival rate for baby girls

have taken her to flee Ridgefield and settle in New

work the young couple put in,

slightly at her

done anything, yet it felt like she was the

took a deep breath and slowly stood

your biological daughter. But if Alice is still unkind to me after she comes out, I won't sit idly by. If she behaves, I'll behave." James, knowing he

the brink of death suddenly realizes that the child carrying all his late

whereabouts of the daughter his wife gave birth

resent Selena, and any guilt towards

he wanted was for Selena

academically, even after transferring to a poor county like Ridgefield, she managed to get into the best

inside the blanket clenched into a

hatred. Where was the daughter

table of food that had completely cooled off, and she couldn't help

mouth turned