The Forgotten Girl Is Back For Revenge

Chapter 2

The sky was drizzling sofily.

Lucia hurriedly shoved a bright red umbrella and a black cloth bag into Hailey’s hands “This is from your sister. Don’t let her tough talk fool you. She’s the one who cares about you the most, even if she doesn’t always show it.”

Hailey swallowed hard, her throat tight with emotion. She barely managed to whisper, “I know”

She stood in front of the house, staring at the closed door. Neither Lydia nor her adoptive father came out to see her off, but she knew they were watching her from behind the curtains.

Lucia gently wiped the tear from Hailey’s cheek with her rough hand. “When you get there, take care of yourself. And remember to call us once you’re settled”

Hailey nodded, wiped away the tears, opened the umbrella, and walked out of the yard, looking back three times before finally leaving.

At the bridge, her family was waiting.

Ethan Middleton, the old butler who’d served the Dalton family for over twenty years, stood by a black car. He was in his fifties now, his hair touched with gray.

“Miss Dalton,” he greeted calmly, then opened the car door for her.

Hailey didn’t say a word. She climbed into the car, her face blank, clutching the umbrella and cloth bag tightly.

Inside the car, she slowly opened the bag. It was stuffed with homemade jerky and all her favorite snacks.

The zipper on one side bulged a little. Hailey opened it, revealing a thick stack of bills.

Her eyes instantly filled with tears, which slid down her face in silence.

She was finally back to the Dalton family.

Five hours later, Hailey stood outside the gates of the Dalton family mansion.

She’d landed at five o’clock. After rushing from the airport, she barely made it to the mansion in under an hour.

It had rained all day in Hallon City yesterday, but today, the sky was clear, the sun shining bright like it had been scrubbed

clean.

Midnight Bay residential area, was massive, just like one’d

new villa they’d bought after their rise to power.

family, the top dogs of the four,

buy a place

iron gates, gazing at the grand villa with

ended for her in her last life. In this very villa. Now, standing

the side of the

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was neatly styled, and his features were sharp with a chiseled jawline and breathtaking

the outer corners

smiling, he looked cold and distant. But when he did smile, it was like warm spring water,

just twenty–four, he had already

from the second–largest family to the biggest power in the city. He’d made their economic empire one of the strongest in Asia. If there was a way

ultimate business

also had looks that could stop traffic. No wonder every rich girl dreamed of becoming Mrs.

too low. He didn’t show up at those flashy parties where

of him was at his grandpa George Calhoun’s birthday bash. Still, a lot of the city’s socialites would do whatever it took

an open book–no one by his side, living so squeaky clean it made people

assistant up front said, bringing

as he was about to get out of the car, his

T–shirt and denim shorts, her waist so tiny you could barely see

hung from her shoulder, and in her hand was a bright red umbrella.

this girl’s skin is so fair it’s almost

stood sideways, so he couldn’t get a full look at her face, but he couldn’t forget that red umbrella

in now,” Ethan

snapped out of her daze, nodded, and pushed open

room. The second Hailey stepped in, the entire room fell silent, and every single eye

Dalton family in her past life. The whole room went dead quiet, all

so nervous, tripping over her own feet, crashing to

entrance, calm as could be. She tucked her umbrella away smoothly, changed her shoes: without missing a beat, and walked toward the sofa, her