Chapter 10

Meanwhile, Thaddeus, the man whom Rowena couldn't stop thinking about, was now standing outside my house. After I left the Crowley residence, I went to see my biological parents. My original intention had been just to bid farewell. Thaddeus had once told me that my biological parents didn't like me. They believed that a daughter they'd never spent time with couldn't compare with the one they'd nurtured since childhood. And when Rowena disappeared, they had even come to resent me for it. For years, I kept telling myself that the mistake had already been made—there was no changing it now. I didn't need to envy Rowena, and Mom and Dad loved me very much, too. But in the end, it was all just a pipe dream. When the dream shattered, I was back at square one. What I didn't expect was that the moment my birth mother saw me, she burst into tears, ran toward me, and held me tightly. She blamed me for refusing to go home all these years, yet at the same time, she worried that if I did ret