Chapter 315

Madeleine sniffled. "I'm fine, Mrs. Parker, really... I'm okay. It stings a little, sure, but Jenny's not wrong—I come from nothing. Just a kid from an ordinary family, no fancy background or anything. When I was a baby, my birth mother swapped me out, and then after all those years growing up with the Landrys, the truth came out. Honestly... I probably don't deserve to be sitting at the same table as her." She had a hunch Jenny would bring up her past—her background, that time she went to prison. So instead of giving Jenny that ammo, Madeleine beat her to it and laid it all out herself. "Mrs. Parker, I—" Jenny started to speak, but Madeleine cut her off without hesitation. "I'm sorry, Jenny. You used to call me your friend, but after you found out I was falsely imprisoned, you just cut me off. I get it. It's tough to trust someone who's got a mark on their record. But ever since I started working at Apex Group, everything I've done—every deal we won—was because of my own effort. And I