Ex-Husband's Endless Pestering (Josie and Henry) novel Chapter 3

"Jo, you're awake!" Madelyn shot to her feet, and tears flowed from the corners of her eyes.

If the hospital director hadn't agreed to the operation last 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.

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 absolute commands. 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 place where no one knew them and lived an ordinary life.

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

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 unwelcomed 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 accepted 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 Gibson family?