After my family abandoned me—I sold my emotions for 800,000 Chapter 11
Just like that, I split my time between working in the marketing department of Vanderbilt Group and preparing for my wedding with Lucien.
Things were going smoothly at first, but as the days passed, Lucien went out of his way more and more often to provoke me.
He wandered over to me and said,
“For your information, all these wedding dresses were custom made for my
ex–fiancée.”
I replied absentmindedly, “It’s fine. They
can be altered to fit me.”
“I also have eighteen ex–girlfriends. They might show up and cause a scene at the
wedding.”
“No problem. They’ll all be like sisters to me when they get here, I’ll make sure everyone has a great time with good food and drinks.”
I didn’t get angry, which only made him furious instead. He slammed the door and
stormed off again.
His assistant sighed and said, “Ms.
Thornton, would you mind pretending to be
jealous just a little bit?”
I thought for a moment and replied,
“Jealousy? That costs extra.”
The assistant sighed again.
Just as I was swamped with all kinds of work
and personal matters, something went
wrong with the Thornton family.
The cause was Graham.
He had put aside all matters at Ashworth
Group to focus on investigating what had
happened all those years ago. He uncovered
a shocking truth in the process.
My abduction and Yvonne’s adoption were
no coincidence.
My parents had met Yvonne at Sunnybrook
Orphanage.
The girl had been wearing a light green dress and holding a little rabbit plush toy. Both of those were my favorite things back then.
On top of that, she could sing all the songs I
knew. She loved all the same cartoons I did.
Even her favorite characters were exactly the
same as mine.
My parents thought this was fate.
They believed the universe had taken pity on
them, and let me be reborn in this little
orphan girl. So they brought the little girl
home and named her Yvonne.
They raised her year after year, transferring all the love they had for me onto her.
They had no idea this was all a carefully planned scheme.
Yvonne was the illegitimate daughter of the first nanny who had taken care of me.
While the nanny looked after me, she trained
her daughter to copy every little quirk and preference of mine.
Then, when the time was right, I was kidnapped by human traffickers and
vanished from their lives. Her daughter,
meanwhile, was picked out of the orphanage and took my place.
I felt completely moved when I heard the
truth. Ever since
emotions, I’ve
when events like
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When I left Lucien’s house, Esaw the
Thorntons and Graham waiting for me.
My parents looked like they had aged ten
years overnight.
My brother Eliot dropped to his knees right
in front of me.
He sobbed, “Hazel, I’m sorry. I’m so, so
sorry…“
Yvonne’s real identity made them realize
just how many lies she had told over the past decade and more. Falling down the stairs,
getting a fever right before competitions, slapping her own face.
None of it was real. It was all just her way of
securing her position after I was found and
returned to the family.
My mother was crying her heart out. She
grabbed my hand and said,
“I was fooled by that bitch’s daughter for all
these years, and let my own baby suffer so
much…
“Hazel, forgive your mom, dad and brother,
okay? We still have time. We’ll love you
properly this time, I promise…”
I sighed softly and said, “Let’s go home
first.”
The Thorntons all let out a sigh of relief. They thought me suggesting we go home meant I was ready to forgive them.
