Chapter 241 Not Blood–Related
Instead of answering Milena, Heidi patted the driver’s seat. “Jim, go grab us a few bottles of water.”
Once Jim was gone, Milena pressed again, “Mom, Dad, are you hiding something from me?”
Then, Martin replied coldly, “Cameron isn’t our daughter.”
Milena whipped her head around, staring in shock at her parents in the backseat. Her eyes were wide as saucers, and her mouth was hanging open like she could fit an egg in it.
“What? Cameron’s not really my sister?” Milena asked.
Milena couldn’t believe that they weren’t real sisters. But before Heidi could answer, it all made sense to Milena.
They looked nothing alike. Cameron was tall and slender, while Milena was not so much of that.
Heidi nodded. “That’s right, she’s not our biological daughter.”
“So what’s the real story? Did you guys just adopt her from somewhere?”
Finally, it made sense why Martin and Heidi only doted on her so much.
Heidi glanced at Martin, and when she saw he wasn’t going to stop her, she decided to spill the beans.
“She wasn’t adopted. Your aunt swapped her in,” she said.
“Aunt Jessica?” Milena frowned a little. “She did the swap?”
Milena’s aunt had already passed away. In Milena’s memory, Jessica always favored Cameron over her, so she never really liked her.
On the flip side, Cameron adored Jessica and trusted her completely. When Jessica passed away, Cameron cried so hard that she almost passed out.
What a shame. It turned out that their aunt was a human trafficker.
That thought actually made Milena feel a little better. She sneered, “Why’d Aunt Jessica bring Cameron into our family then?”
Heidi looked upset. “I gave birth to a boy, but he died during labor. Your aunt was afraid I’d break down, so she secretly swapped him with a healthy baby girl.”
“And that healthy baby girl was Cameron?” Milena asked, her mouth dropped open again in shock.
She thought, ‘So I really did have a brother. He just didn’t make it. And Amelia’s so–called “fiancé” died right after he was born.”
Heidi nodded with a sigh. After a pause, Milena asked, confused, “Then why didn’t Aunt Jessica just swap in a boy?”
Her dad replied, “You think it’s that easy? Cameron’s birth mom passed out during labor, and that’s the only reason your aunt had the chance to take her away.”
Milena was silent, then asked again curiously, “So who are Cameron’s real parents?”
Heidi shook her head. Honestly, they had no idea. After the swap, they’d been so afraid of getting caught that they left the hospital in the middle of the night.
When Cameron’s birth mother woke up and realized she’d given birth to a stillborn, she was so devastated she fainted again. No one knew what happened after that.
Milena sat in stunned silence, trying to process it all.
After a while, she muttered, “Even if she’s not really your daughter, you raised her for eighteen years. She owes us, doesn’t she? If it weren’t for us, she’d probably have starved to death.”
Martin’s face was grim. “After everything we’ve invested in her, you bet we’re getting every penny’s worth back, and then some.”
From the very beginning, Cameron existed for one reason, which was to secure the marriage alliance between the race and Chapman families.
That was why Martin sent her to the best schools and dressed her in designer clothes. All of it was to make sure she was worthy of Amelia.
But now, Cameron had destroyed that marriage berova
To the Wallace family, the 300 thousand dollar. earn in the future.
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