Return of the Crowned Heiress

5

"Stay away! Don't come near me!" Kayla screamed. Terrified, she hid behind Myra.

Myra couldn't bear seeing Kayla in distress and immediately ordered the maids and bodyguards in the mansion to hold the intruders back.

However, that just made things worse. Howell swung his fist at the staff, and Tabitha, with all her audacity, started pulling her clothes off. She threatened them, saying, "Go ahead, touch me if you dare! I'll accuse you of molesting me!" The staff had seen difficult people before, but never anyone this shameless. Faced with such a scene, the bodyguards hesitated to act, and soon, the entire mansion echoed with Tabitha's sharp, grating voice.

Even Myra, who was usually composed, couldn't take it anymore. Her face hardened as she snapped, "Enough! Just tell me how much you want!"

Seeing that they had the upper hand, Howell stopped hitting people, and Tabitha stopped tearing her clothes off.

Shawn stepped forward with a smirk. "50 million dollars. Give us 50 million, and we'll leave right now. I promise you'll never see us again."

50 million?

Everyone except Felicia gasped. They had seen greed before, but never at this level.

"Absolutely not!" Dexter was furious. It wasn't about the money. He simply refused to be extorted.

Shawn sneered at his reply and said, "Well, then, let's go, Mom, Dad. We'll just take my sister and leave! Do you think being the richest man in town means you can hold our family hostage?"

Exactly. It was only right to take their daughter back. Without hesitation, Howell and Tabitha rushed forward and grabbed Kayla, refusing to let go.

Myra was beside herself with worry. Instinctively, she looked over at Felicia, who had been sitting quietly the entire time. After all, this was her adoptive family for 18 years. Couldn't she say something to stop this madness?

Felicia was looking back at her with an expression filled with disappointment, coldness, and hurt. Maybe Myra didn't realize it herself, but in that moment, her frustration and disappointment in Felicia were more painful than she knew. Felicia almost wanted to laugh, but all she felt was a wave of bitterness.

Yet her first instinct was to protect Kayla from being taken, to feel anger at Felicia for not helping, rather than to feel compassion for her biological daughter, who had been raised in such a family

years, during which Felicia had longed countless times for a loving gaze from her parents, only to receive nothing but beatings from Howell and Tabitha. Finally, after her real mother had finally found

of regret. She opened her mouth to say something. However, before she could, Felicia stood up

I'll go back with you," Felicia said

of them, eagerly nodded in agreement. "Yes, yes, that's right. Blood ties don't matter as much as the bonds that were formed. My true parents are the ones who raised me, and I intend

right. The ones who raised me are the ones I am indebted

could have everything in life, but Myra wanted it all. She couldn't bear to lose either the daughter she had raised for

check before throwing it at them. "Take this and get out!

got it!" Shawn said, his face lighting up with joy as he held the check. His hands shook as he counted

something. "Mom, let Felicia go with them! We can just leave things the way they are. That way, no

moment, Myra thought she must have misheard. That suggestion was ridiculous, but looking at Kayla's teary, pleading face, she couldn't

you can't say things like that. Felicia is my daughter, and so

know, Mom. I misspoke," Kayla said, forcing a smile and looking as

his family, her

with the money they had received, eagerly left. Finally,

leave, but Myra grabbed

with emotion. "Felicia, are you going to abandon me? Don't you

hand had already been crushed by Shawn. The only person in the world who could have healed her was herself, but because nerve damage was irreversible,

to jail. However, when faced with Shawn's threat to take Kayla away, Myra dropped the charges and

had promised to throw a grand party to announce to the world

and begged, fearing the mockery she might face as a fake heiress. Consequently, Myra changed her

had been abandoned. And

this time, Mom?" she thought to herself. Felicia didn't need to pretend. Just thinking about her past life

to stay, but... what role am I supposed to take?" Felicia

nine months and nearly died giving birth to!" Myra was overwhelmed with guilt,