The Forgotten Twin Chapter 09
“Madeline!”
“Madeline, please listen to me… I know I was wrong. I really know I was wrong. Please don’t leave me, okay?”
Mom reached out and grabbed my sleeve. I gently pulled her fingers away one by one.
“Mom, when you slowed down my alarm clock, did you ever think about me?”
William rushed over and wrapped his arms around me.
“Madeline, it was my fault. I was biased. I was stupid. I let Clara fool me for eight years. Don’t leave. I’ll buy you a house, in your favorite neighborhood. You can go to any school you want. I’ll take care of the money…”
“Enough.”
I pushed his hand away.
“All these years, you kept saying that if I failed, you would support me.”
“But then you turned around and spent all my allowance trying to make Clara happy. I couldn’t even afford training shoes. I had to work part-time to earn the money myself.”
“You always said you would take care of me.”
“But did you ever actually do that?”
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William opened his mouth, but no words came out.
Thomas pushed through the crowd from behind, holding a box in his hands. Inside was the Royal Fang Academy hoodie I had once given to Clara, “Madeline, this… you should keep it.”
“You once said you wanted to go to Royal Fang with me, didn’t you? Take this. We can still go together.”
I looked at the hoodie and smiled.
“Thomas, when you gave it to Clara, you had already stopped wanting to go to Royal Fang with me.”
Thomas lowered his head, his fingers tightening around the box one by one.
I looked away and walked toward the three Admissions Officers.
I stopped in front of them.
“The offers from Royal Fang Academy and Lunarcrest Academy are both very generous. Thank you for coming all this way.”
I smiled faintly, “But I choose Silverhowl Academy, not because the other schools aren’t good enough.”
I turned around and glanced at the three people behind me, “It’s because I want to be farther away from them.”
The representatives from Royal Fang and Lunarcrest sighed, but they ultimately said nothing.
The representative from Silverhowl smiled, took out my admission letter, and handed it to me.
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“Ms. Morton, as long as you sign now, we can complete your enrollment early. You can leave tomorrow.”
I took the paper. The sound of my pen touching the page was quiet, “Okay.”
Behind me, Mom suddenly shouted, “Madeline, are you really abandoning even your own mother?”
My pen paused for a moment.
“Mom, you asked that question too late.”