No Way Back

Chapter 5 Madelyn Kneeling Down

The scene after hanging up the phone was bizarre.

The expressions on Jack and Anna’s faces, as well as Peter’s, were all those of extreme embarrassment.

That was mainly because they had just falsely accused Jane.

After careful consideration, they realized that there were indeed many loopholes in Richard’s words. They only found a small amount of evidence. Still, they used it to fabricate an accusation that Jane was intentionally spreading rumors to coerce the Fowler family into recognizing her as the true heiress.

It was still their underlying mistrust of Jane and too much favoring of Madelyn that had caused the whole fuss.

Every time they saw Madelyn sad and upset, they immediately lost their cool.

“Janie, I’m really sorry. Daddy and they lost their cool when they realized I was too upset. This is all my fault. Only if I hadn’t joined this family!” Madelyn sobbed.

She broke the silence and the awkwardness when she walked over to Jane, tears in her eyes, and prepared to kneel before her.

“Maddie, what are you doing?” Peter, who was the closest to them, quickly yelled as he pulled Madelyn up. Madelyn, however, had a firm resolve and knelt, saying, “Peter, I have to do this. This is my fault, and I won’t get up if Jannie doesn’t forgive us!”

Madelyn dropped to her knees on the ground with a dull thud.

Tears kept falling from her cheeks.

“Maddie, what are you doing? Get up quickly!” Jack yelled.

Jack and Anna quickly went to help Madelyn, who had collapsed on the ground.

They were profoundly moved by Madelyn’s efforts to be a good daughter.

At that moment, any remaining doubts about Madelyn in their hearts vanished without a trace.

They knew that it was impossible for such a kind, selfless person who always thought of the Fowler family to devise such a terrible scheme.

Thus, they firmly believed that it must be someone else.

“Jane, we owe you an apology. Don’t worry. I will find out who is behind this and make them pay for what they have done. I can’t believe they were trying to hurt my family!” Jack said, furious at the thought of someone trying to sow discord in his family.

“Anyone who dares to tarnish the Fowler family’s reputation will have me to deal with,” he added, gritting his teeth. This kind of scheming was something that Jack could not tolerate.

Above all else, Jack prioritized maintaining peace in his family.

“Owing me an apology?” Jane laughed as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world.

that she couldn’t hold her

furrowed in confusion and he asked, “Why

laughing, for what Jack said

defending his biological daughter, Jack had sided with the foster

all because he was

develop prejudice, and he began making false accusations against Jane

everything.

like that, Jane certainly didn’t anticipate

old Jane would have foolishly believed in the so–called family love,

Fowler, I truly do not believe you intend to apologize to me in any way. Also, you’re too old and blind to even think of finding the mastermind behind all this.” Jane spoke these cruel words without

remorse.

great sense of release because she

bullet for Jack, only to be abandoned in the hospital to fend for herself while she struggled to stay

she recalled the final kick that had sent

of the accumulation of all of these

It wasn’t enough, however.

have foreseen that Jane would express

all of her

father! How dare you

a mistake, but I said I’d apologize

of his wife but never of

him. But now, he felt

say; Jack will always be your father. Apologize to him now!” Anna said as the expression on her face grew

carried around a sense of guilt regarding Jane, but now she saw her as nothing

she had given birth to, who had been

want such

to have such a father. I will not apologize, and I do not

a single utterance without pausing

a sense of newfound freedom. She had finally found the courage to

be told, speaking out like that to the Fowler family wasn’t difficult

trapped by her own clinging to

she had let go of all her worries and decided she didn’t want a family like this. She tried

Jack yelled, and he was so enraged

it weren’t for feeling guilty for falsely accusing Jane earlier, he would have already slapped her

believe he had a daughter who was so

was a great shame

“Janie, I know you’re mad. Don’t blame Daddy and Mommy. Blame just me. If I were to kneel before you, would that not make you feel better? Then I’ll leave the Fowlers and vanish somewhere far away. I’ll give back the role of the Fowler family’s daughter to you. Then you won’t be

smirk, looking at Madelyn. “You leave the Fowler family, and I’ll let bygones be bygones. You just said that by yourself. That was totally your

unable to believe that Jane had