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She was silent, and so was Neil, his head bowed low.

“I hold a total of 35% of the shares. I’ll give Tricia 20%, and you 15%.

Maja felt a bitter sting, not knowing what to say.

She was always left behind.

Dumped by the Leo Elston family, dumped by lan, and now, dumped by Neil.

She never felt needed.

She was once told she mattered, only to be ditched without a second thought.

“Maja, Lillian gave up her painting career to take care of you, and that’s why her health deteriorated.”

The weight of such a favour left Maja feeling at a loss.

“If you’re not my daughter, then you’re definitely not Lillian’s either. Maybe we got the wrong baby at the hospital. I don’t know whether Lillian’s actual child is dead or alive or where she is, but I hope you can find her.”

Neil closed his eyes, weary.

the doctors talking when I was discharged. I only have half a year left.”

added to Maja’s mental

agree to take over the Pennyfeather family’s company, or if she didn’t search for the child Lillian gave birth

one who didn’t

family cared a great deal about this. The old folks said that back then, there were many abandoned baby girls on the streets, left in baskets, with nobody

or froze

at birth, then the girl who was switched out, Lillian’s actual daughter,

baby girl surviving were very slim at that time.

taken her away from Crystalbrook Valley

they raised a child that

trembled

done anything, yet she felt like a

took a deep breath and slowly stood up.

biological daughter. But if Tricia hurts me again, I won’t let it slide. Only if she behaves will I.”

a year left to live, didn’t

the

resent Maja, and his guilt towards her

was that Maja

studying in the impoverished Crystalbrook Valley, she managed to get into the top–ranked Solstice College.

was hard to believe she was

into a fist under the

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