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Chapter 67
Chapter 67
Chapter 67
Matthew should not have brought this up. He patted the back of his head regretfully, but he could not take back his words now. He had already told Lucy about it, and it was impossible to turn back time. He had no choice but to continue.
“I asked the doctor to use a blood sample from your examination and compare it with the DNA extracted from Melanie’s and Luna’s hair samples. The results show that you’re not blood–related at all,” Matthew stuttered. He could not even feel his mouth.
Now that he finally managed to get the words out, he looked at Lucy nervously. He was afraid that she would faint from the shock.
Lucy was stunned for a long time. Only when she came to her senses did she casually respond with an ‘oh‘.
Matthew found her reaction to be strange. “Lulu, why don’t you seem surprised?” Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.
She shook her head. “What else am supposed to do? Act sad?”
Matthew was at a loss. “Um… Shouldn’t you be sad?”
“That’s how normal people would react.” Lucy looked at Matthew helplessly.
She poked Matthew’s forehead and said, “The Quinn family was never nice to me. For all my life, I hardly ever received any special treatment. They simply just raised me like any other child.
“Even as a kid, I had found it strange. Luna and I had the same mother, but her attitude toward the both of us was completely different. Now that you’ve told me this, I feel like I finally have closure.”
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Matthew carefully pulled Lucy over to him and hugged her. He rested his chin on Lucy’s head and said in a muffled voice, “Wifey, don’t you feel hurt? You don’t have to hold it in. If you want to cry, you can tell me. I’ll always be here for you.”
Lucy shook her head. “No, I’m not hurt. It’s true.”
The more she explained, the more Matthew could see that she was hurting. It was obvious that she was just saying that to not make him worry. His wife was so considerate that he was overwhelmed with
affection when he looked at her.
Matthew stopped asking, but he continued to hold her. “Let me hug you for a while longer, wifey.”
Lucy nodded.
In reality, Lucy did not really feel that hurt when Matthew said that she was not the Quinn family’s daughter. If anything, she felt relieved.
She had been disappointed with the way her family treated since a long time ago, but she had always thought that she was their daughter. That made it feel like a burden for her.
After learning that she was not related to the Quinn family, she no longer had to fulfill the duties of being their so–called family. Without this burden on her, she felt liberated.
Lucy softened her gaze, feeling the warmth of Matthew’s body. Her only family left was her husband, Matthew, and the best friend she grew up with, Chelsea. She had no one else.
She closed her eyes.
Goodbye, past Lucy.
The Quinn family was just a temporary home that raised her until she was 18 years old.
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In the future, she would find a way to pay off those 18 years of rent for the house she lived in.
Once that was done, she would be free. She would no longer be bound by the cage she had once called home.