Chapter 373 She Already Has a Family
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For a moment, everyone in the room silently thanked the Bennett family of Hoverdale for being blind enough to abandon such a gifted daughter in an orphanage.
A blessed child has no place in a cursed home.
Madam Shirley cradled Lauren gently in her arms, softly stroking her little head.
Same species, different brains. Her Lauren was just that smart.
Comparisons really were the thief of joy.
“Lauren,” Madam Shirley said warmly, “how about I throw you a big party to celebrate your acceptance?”
Lauren sat there looking as sweet and obedient as ever.
So I finally get a celebration of my ot
my own
In her past life, she and Willow had both gotten into college.
Willow had gotten into an average second–tier school, while she had been accepted into the prestigious Northcrest University -the top in all of Corwynale.
But the Bennett family only threw a party for Willow,
And it was at that very party, in front of all the guests, that Lauren was led away in handcuffs.
From that moment on, their paths had diverged completely.
Willow became the beloved daughter of the Bennett family, the darling of Hoverdale’s elite social scene.
And Lauren became a murderer in the eyes of the law.
But in this life, everything had changed.
She had a father, a mother, and a brother who loved her.
She had friends who didn’t look down on her.
And now, she would finally have her own celebration.
What haunted her most in her previous life wasn’t being framed–it was that after finally earning her way into college, she fever got to attend.
She’d spent those years behind bars.
But not this time.
This time, she was really going to experience what it meant to be a college student.
The emotion overwhelmed her. Tears started to fall before she even realized it.
Madam Shirley panicked “Sweetheart, why are you crying
Lauren hugged her mother tightly around the neck. “Thank you, Mommy. Thank you for bringing me home. If it weren’t for you. I’d never have had a party like this”
Madam Shirley’s heart melted even further,
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Chapter 373 She Already Has a Family
and threw his arms around them as well.
The flour of them huddied close, warmth and love filling the air.
But of course, sottirone just had to ruin the moment.
‘ve matter to make you home”
sweat aize from just outside the villa
“You can’t go in there. a housekeeper protested.
“Movel My daugtown in inside?”
After wine szugging and shouting Alice shoved her way in.
What she saw was Lauren souggled in the arms of the entire Mavis family.
Alice’s pupils dilatest. Be beam clenched painfully. The sight was like a blade to the chest.
Lauren was her daughter- ver she was in someone else’s arms, being loved like she never had been before.
Alice couldn’t make sense of I
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Back in her past life, when they’d picted Lauren up from the orphanage, she had still been living in that miserable place
So why was she here now, in Balewood
Then her eyes flickered with sudden nalazion
It must have been the same last time.
Lauren must’ve also been adopted by the Mom family in that life–only to be abandoned again, which was how she ended up back in the orphanage.
If she was destined to be abandoned, then Alice bould take her back
now.
She knew the full truth now
This time, she would never hurt Lauren again.
She would pour every ounce of love into her, spoil ber tilbe a perinnenk
And as for Willow! She would make that little brar p
pay the every wound the inflicted on Lauren.
Alice, now unterly convinced she was in the right, puffed up with confidimor. She looked down at the Mavis family with disdam
“You have your own child. Why are you trying to steal mine”
“Yours?” Madam Shirley laughed coldly. “You let your biologai dauthier rot in an orphanage. You couldn’t protect her, and
pou ve got the nerve to claim her now?
Alice clenched her fists Tm her birth mother. No matter what you say you can use the blood te between us
ens i revulson only deepened.
All this talk about making amends–did Alice really think she could forget that agnans of har puse life? The betrayal: The
past hatred she had carried all those years
