Chapter 3


    To, you’re awakel Madelyn shot to her feet, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.


    If the hospital director Hadn’t agreed to the operationst night. Josie would have died in Henry’s


    absence.


    “Oh, my Jo. You don’t owe Henry anything


    Josie was the eldest daughter of the Gibson family.


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    Henry was nothing more than an heir who John adopted.


    “Owe…” Josie mumbled with a hoarse voice.


    “When Grandpa forced Henry to marry me, I already owed him,” she thought.


    “But I don’t owe him anything anymore now…”


    Josie took her mother’s family name. Her mother was a dancer with low status, but her father, Hayden,


    had a crush on her


    mother.


    In that era, parents‘ orders were absolutemands. John objected to Hayden’s marriage to her


    mother. Despite Hayden’s persuasion, the Gibson family members wouldn’t let her mother marry into


    the Gibson family.


    Josie was envious of her mother. At least Josie’s father didn’t give in to the pressure from his family


    members. He eloped with Josie’s mother to a ce where no one knew them and lived an ordinary life.


    When Josie was 15 years old, her parents had a car ident.


    Josie watched her parents die in front of her and hadn’t dared to ride alone in private cars ever since.


    John found her that year and took her back to the Gibson family.


    Even though John didn’t like her, she was still the eldest daughter of the Gibson family.


    That year when she returned to the Gibson family, John had already been raising Henry as his heir for


    ten years.


    Henry was 18 years old, and Josie was 15 years old.


    “Jo, I will protect you from now on.”


    She looked up into a pair of gentle eyes when she shrunk herself into a ball in a corner of the mansion


    that unweed her. Josie fell in love with Henry at first sight.


    The ignorant love of youth was like wine. The longer it aged, the better the taste.


    Josie was quiet and obedient, so John slowly epted her.


    When John passed away three years ago, Henry was able to manage the Gibson Corporation alone


    and led it back to its peak in just two years.


    From an outsider’s perspective, Henry was the favored son and the only heir of the Gibson family.


    However, only Josie knew Henry was adopted. If he wanted to gain the full inheritance right to Gibson


    Corporation, he had to marry her, a woman with the blood of the Gibson family.


    Josie guessed that Henry wanted to hide her because her identity was a shame to him.


    If everyone knew Josie was the legitimate daughter of the Gibson family, then what was Henry? Did he


    marry into the


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    Gibson family?


    Josie had always been sensible and obedient. She obediently agreed when Henry asked for a secret


    marriage.


    Henry told her to pretend to be strangers if they ever ran into each other outside, so she never


    mentioned her marriage to


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    Henry was nice to her at home. He had never missed an anniversary or birthday in their three years of


    marriage.


    He often said, “Jo, I will give you everything as long as you be good. No one can threaten your status.”


    However, that was never what Josie desired.


    The glory hidden in the shadows of the stars was worthless.


    She had loved Henry for close to ten years. During those ten years, she gleefully formed a family with


    him, thinking someone would finally protect and care for her for the rest of her life.


    She was greedy for Henry’s warmth to a state where she almost lost herself.


    She deceived and immersed herself in the secret dream Henry drew up and refused to wake up.


    “Jo, you almost diedst night. Yet he was with that celebrity… Madelyn didn’t want to hurt Josie, but


    she wanted to smother any hope Josie had for Henry.


    “He splurges for Ashley but never cares about you! Did you see the ne Ashley wore around her


    neck at the film festival a few days ago?” Madelyn pulled up the photos with trembling fingers on her


    phone. She knew Josie had never looked at them.


    Josie felt as though a knife had stabbed into her heart. It didn’t bleed, but it hurt.


    In the photo, the emerald ne was a token of love Hayden gave to her mother.


    John said that it was reserved for his future daughter–inw.


    Although the Gibson family had never epted her mother, her father still gave her the ne.


    When her parents passed away, Josie returned the ne to John


    John probably regarded Henry as his own child, but that ne was for Henry’s future wife.


    John thought that it would return to his granddaughter.


    Yet he didn’t know Henry gave it to a celebrity.


    Ha… Tears were brimming in Josie’s eyes.


    She still couldn’t capture Henry’s heart despite three years of marriage.


    “Maddy, I’m so tired.


    “I’m exhausted,” she thought.


    Meanwhile, at the Lake House.


    Henry returned home early in the morning after finally coaxing Ashley to sleep. When he got home, he


    saw the mess and a small patch of blood stain on the ground.


    “Jo!” Henry’s heart tightened at the sight. He frantically opened the bedroom door but didn’t see Josie


    inside.


    Henry turned on his phone in a hurry. When he saw the hundreds of missed calls, he felt coldness


    engulfing him.