You, Me And Our Genus Twins

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Michael added in earnest agreement, “Yes, that’s right. Finding Maddie and being reunited with her is a joyous occasion indeed! We have to throw a banquet to celebrate it and have everyone else know that Maddie is the only princess of the Wendel Family!”

Everyone in the living room sounded their hearty approval, but Nicholas was the only one who grumbled under his breath, “Having a daughter of the Wendel Family spend most of her life away from us is nothing to be proud of. The rest of high society will see us as laughing stock for sure if word of this gets out.”

He had said it in a voice barely above a whisper, but Michael heard it nonetheless.

The words cut through him like a knife. Indeed, having his daughter grow up outside the Wendel Family was nothing to be proud of at all; it only went to show how incapable he was as a father who couldn’t even protect his own daughter.

That was how he interpreted Nicholas’ pointed remark, but in truth, he was wrong. Nicholas had meant to say that someone like Madeline, who had grown up outside the gentle breeding of the Wendel Family, was not worthy of the title of the young lady of the household. However, he couldn’t have said it that bluntly, so it hadn’t come off quite as harsh as he intended.

In the end, the statement was taken out of context by Michael, who only felt more guilty toward Madeline. He became more driven to treat her with the kindness she must have missed out on all these years. It was his fault that she had to survive outside the love and care of the family, and he vowed to make it up to her.

Michael couldn’t be bothered about confronting his nephew over this, so he ignored Nicholas and brushed it off, pretending not to have heard it at all. However, he treated Madeline even more affably now and with renewed enthusiasm.

Nicholas gaped at his uncle’s behavior and shrugged. Forget it, he thought. He was the youngest in the Wendel Family next to Angie at twenty-something years old, but everyone still treated him like a child.

His words hardly carried any weight, and no one in the family ever took him seriously. He couldn’t change the way they saw him, but he knew he could take charge of his own life and make his own judgment.

He reached an arm around Angie’s shoulders and gave her a comforting squeeze. “Don’t worry, Angie. You still have me, and I’ll keep you safe forever. No one will hurt you as long as I’m here!”

turned to look at him with red-rimmed eyes. Then, she

in her eyes and her show of reliance toward him, Nicholas felt as if

things to Madeline and Sebastian, he

and

side of Angie as they walked out of the house. In particular, Erin held Angie’s hand while they chattered

Madeline smiled as amusement glittered

only ones left in the villa were the main family,

call up the hospital to ask them about his wife and how she was coping so far. The hospital told him that she was awake and that he could visit her, though for only half an hour at a time. He was elated to hear this and immediately rushed over

while

in the intensive care unit. She looked frail, but her condition

she saw the nurse leading Michael into the room,

turned and said

had been walking behind the brood, but Joseph shoved her forward after hearing what Michael had said. She hurried over to Crystal’s bedside and crouched down as she said, “You’re awake, Mom. How are you feeling? Are you

Madeline’s face as she took in her features.

at her the same way she would have looked at her

feel tears pricking her own eyes as Crystal continued to stare at

that we can have more time together. If you collapse now, that future we want won’t be possible

Wait for me to get better. We’ll go shopping, have meals together, and look at all the things on sale…