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.

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

Tabitha. Finally, after her real mother had finally found her, all her attention and care were still directed at someone else. In her previous life, and now in this one, the love she had craved was

mouth to say

go back

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

are the

life, but Myra wanted it all. She couldn't bear to lose either the daughter she had raised for 18

and swiftly writing a check before throwing it at them. "Take this and get out! And

his face lighting up with joy as he held the check. His hands shook as

"Mom, let Felicia go with them! We can just leave things the way they are. That way, no one's life has to change. Isn't that

was ridiculous, but looking at Kayla's teary, pleading

like that. Felicia is my daughter,

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

gently patted her head, then turned back to Shawn and his family, her face darkened again. "Why are

with the money they had

turned to leave, but

going to abandon me? Don't you want your mother anymore?" Anyone hearing this would be moved, especially a child who had been starved of love

life, by this point, Felicia's 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, she

However, when faced with Shawn's threat to take

make up for it, Myra had promised to throw a grand party to announce to the world that her real

fearing the mockery she might face as a fake heiress. Consequently, Myra changed her mind, letting Felicia assume the role

the second time Felicia had been abandoned. And then there was the third and the fourth

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

what role am I supposed to take?"

and nearly died giving birth to!" Myra was