GoodNovelChapter 406: Always the One Left Behind She fell silent, and so did James, his eyelashes drooping..
"I have thirty-five percent of the shares. I'll give Alice twenty percent and you fifteen." A bitter taste filled Selena's mouth. She didn't know what to say.
Indeed, she was always the one to be left behind.
That was the case with her uncle's family, with Raymond, and now with James.
She had never been needed by anyone.
Once someone said she was important, but they didn't hesitate to leave her behind.
"Selena, Barbara gave up her painting career to take care of you, and that's why her health went worse." This debt of gratitude weighed heavily on Selena, immobilizing her.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"If you're not my daughter, then you're definitely not Barbara's either. Maybe the hospital made a mistake back then. Whether the child Barbara gave birth to is dead or alive, or where they are, I don't know. But I need you to find out." James closed his eyes wearily.
"My days are numbered; I overheard the doctors talking during my last hospital visit I have only half a year to live." Every word from James made Selena under the gun.
If she didn't agree to take over the Fair family company, if she didn't find the child Barbara had given birth to... She would be ungrateful for the Fair family's upbringing, for Barbara's protection of her.
In Ridgefield, especially twenty years ago, only Barbara wouldn't care whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl. But other families cared greatly about this issue. The older generation said that at that time, many abandoned baby girls were found on the roadside, placed in baskets, with no one daring to pick them up. Many baby girls starved or froze to death.
If Selena was switched by a nurse, then the baby girl switched to Barbara, the daughter Barbara gave birth to, might not have survived.
In that era, the survival rate for baby girls was very low.
James had feelings for Barbara; otherwise, he wouldn't have taken her to flee Ridgefield and settle in New York. But all the hard work the young couple put in, only to raise a child that wasn't theirs...
Selena's fingertips trembled slightly at her side.
She hadn't done anything, yet it felt like she was the greatest sinner.
She took a deep breath and slowly stood up.
"Dad, I agree to take over the Fair family, and I promise to find your biological daughter. But if Alice is still unkind toafter she comes out, I won't sit idly by. If she behaves, I'll behave." James, knowing he had half a year left, no longer cared about other things.
A person on the brink of death suddenly realizes that the child carrying all his late wife's memories is actually a stranger.
And the whereabouts of the daughter his wife gave birth to remain unknown.
He couldn't help but resent Selena, and any guilt towards her vanished in an instant.
Now, all he wanted was for Selena to stabilize the Fair family.
No wonder Selena had such a high talent for business, always excelling academically, even after transferring to a poor county like Ridgefield, she managed to get into the best Harvard University. Her outstanding genes indeed didn't seem like his own daughter.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmJames' hand inside the blanket clenched into a fist.
Oh, the hatred. Where was the daughter he and Barbara had? Selena walked downstairs to see the table of food that had completely cooled off, and she couldn't help but laugh.
Laughing, her mouth turned bitter.
"Woof woof woof!" Max barked nearby for a while and then ran over, clinging to her leg.
Selena's eyes instantly reddened. "At least I have you."
She took Max to the Rose Garden, after all, James had made bis M intentions Clear. When she got in the car, Alice had already been brought back.
The two met by chance.
Alice, who had lost several pounds, smiled when she saw Selena.
"So you're not Dad's daughter, what a pity. Turns out you're a bastard. In that case, shouldn't the one marrying Raymond be me?" Her eyes couldn't hide her triumph, never expecting to turn her fate around.
"Selena, I always knew you couldn't beat me! Raymond should be mine too!"
At this moment, Selena was already sitting in her car, with Max in the with passenger seat. "You should tell that to Raymond."
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