No Way Back (Jane and Hugh) by Anna Mac novel Chapter 30

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Jane was grateful to Peter.

He had allowed Jane to get a clear look at the Fowlers family’s true colors. He had let Jane reflect deeply on how fo*lish she had lived her life.

To think that she had spent so much effort in humiliating herself to please such a family…

What a joke.

That was the world’s biggest joke.

The Fowler family was unworthy.

They were not worthy at all.

Jane had worked so hard and even gave up her life.

She had held some hope of kinship with the Fowler family.

That hope was completely extinguished.

From now on, there was no longer a Jane Fowler, daughter of the Fowler family, in this world.

Instead, she was simply Jane.

She was just Jane Fowler.

Peter seemed to have been struck by lightning.

He stood rooted to the ground.

Jane turned to walk away.

“Jane… Jane…”

“Stop following me! Sucker!”

Jane had her back to Peter.

She did not hide her extreme revulsion toward Peter.

Peter could only look on as Jane walked away.

The things Jane had just confronted him with…

Peter felt as if a bucket of cold water was poured over his head.

It chilled his heart.

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He had no defense.

The reason was simple.

Jane had spoken the truth.

It was the blo*dy, brutal truth that had happened to Jane not too long ago.

Right then, Peter felt that he was a hyp*crite.

So what if he was the male lead in this story?

He had nothing to say in his defense.

Would a normal person treat his long-lost biological sister like that, especially after the pains taken to find her?

“A real family shouldn’t be like this,” Peter said.

“At least, not like what I did.”

Peter pulled his hair and stooped helplessly on the ground.

It was such a simple principle.

But Peter had not comprehended it before.

He recalled everything that Jane had said earlier.

Every word was like a curse that hurt his head.

Even he felt disgusted by himself.

Larry had come over too.

After looking around for a while, Larry found Peter stooped on the ground, clutching his hair.

“Peter? What’s wrong with you?”

Larry sensed that something was wrong and rushed over to Peter.

Peter’s he

lifted mechanically at the sound of Larry’s voice.

Larry was stunned by Peter’s appearance.

Larry had never seen Peter’s eyes so dull and sad.

Peter looked as if his soul had been torn out of his body.

He seemed hollow.

“Larry, do you think I’m very heartless? Very perverse?

“If you were in my shoes, would you treat your blood-related sister, who had

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been lost for 19 years, the way I did?”

Peter moved his thin lips and asked those questions weakly.

“Did Jane say something to you? Wake up, Peter!”

Larry held Peter’s shoulder and shook hard as if trying to call Peter’s soul back.

“Larry, I’ve never felt so disgusted by myself before. I’ve never hated myself like this before.

“Jane was right. The things I just said were so di*gusting that even I can’t recognize myself. I feel sck.

“I seriously believed in my heart that if Jane had shown her talent earlier, I might have changed the way I treated her.

“But I completely forgot that she is my sister, related by blood.

“There shouldn’t be any need for our relationship to be built on self-interest.”

The more Peter spoke, the more he felt that a candle was stuck in his throat.

It felt very bitter.

Peter felt something in his throat.

Every word he said caused him to feel as if his throat was going to break.

“Peter, what on earth…”

Larry couldn’t finish.

Peter’s breathing suddenly became very rapid.

“Peter? Hey! Peter! Don’t scare me! Peter!”

The moment Anna received the news, she rushed as fast as she could with Jack and Dwayne, who was on leave, to the University of Oricle.

In the school clinic, they saw Peter fast asleep. He had an IV drip in his arm, and his face was pale.

Next to him were Larry and Madelyn.

“Daddy, Mommy.”

Madelyn was crying uncontrollably. The moment she saw her parents and brother, she rushed over like her pillar of strength had arrived.

“Peter… He…” Madelyn cried.

Anna hugged Madelyn and tried to comfort her. “Maddie, calm down,” Anna said. “What on earth happened?”

Madelyn kept sobbing while trying to calm herself down so could speak clearly.

“Peter had gone to meet Janie, and then he ended up like this. Larry found Peter like this and carried him to the school clinic just in time.

“Today, Janie broke Peter’s record. I’m sure that’s what agitated him. Peter is such a proud person. If Janie said something h*rrible to Peter out of anger…”

“Mommy, I’m so scared. Will anything bad happen to Peter?”

Larry suddenly frowned.

Something was off.

Why did he feel that what Madelyn said sounded a little strange?