His Coy Lover

Sometimes, Elle would envy the love Zelda received from her parents in one year more than what she had received in twenty-five years.

“Zelda.”

Chris wasn’t accustomed to Zelda’s affectionate gestures. Although they were supposed to be a mother and daughter, Zelda had been swapped for twenty-five years, and Chris had always doted on Elle since childhood. However, she accepted her daughter’s spoiled behavior completely.

Since recognizing her daughter, the mother-daughter relationship was always awkward. It didn’t come as naturally as her relationship with Elle. Chris had wanted her biological daughter to be affectionate with her, but Zelda didn’t grow up by her side. When she was recognized, she was already twenty-five, and she didn’t know how to be spoiled.

“Mom, let me hug you properly. I missed you so much, and I’m afraid that I won’t see you when I wake up.”

“Mom is at home every day; you can see Mom whenever you want.”

After hugging for a while, Chris gently pushed her daughter away.

She stroked Zelda’s face, carefully examining this flesh-and-blood daughter.Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

Zelda looked like a mix of both Chris and her husband, Peck. How had she been so blind not to notice that Elle didn’t resemble the couple?

“Zelda, promise Mom that you won’t do anything foolish in the future.”

“Mom, I’m sorry for worrying you. I promise I won’t do anything foolish again.”

Having a second chance at life, if she did something foolish again, she would be a fool. In this lifetime, she only wanted to live freely, safeguard the Roscente company, protect her parents, and repay her biological parents for giving her life and her adoptive parents for raising her.

In her previous life, her adoptive parents didn’t sever ties with her after she returned to the Roscente. They continued to treat her as their daughter. Elle grew up at the Roscente, and even after learning about her biological parents, she didn’t want to return to them. The honest couple didn’t force their biological daughter to come back, feeling that Zelda’s biological parents had raised her well and deserved the love they gave Zelda.

“Winston’s proposal for a marriage alliance…”

“Mom, I promised to marry Charles.” And she did marry Charles.

Chris was momentarily stunned, then touched her daughter’s head to confirm that she wasn’t running a fever. She worriedly asked, “Zelda, did Charles do something to you? Mom knows you like Burton. Even though Mom doesn’t approve of you marrying Burton, you don’t have to do something against your will because of Charles’s coercion.”

Chris gritted her teeth and said, “Even if our family is ruined by Winston, Mom won’t let you marry Winston to become a widow.”

From the beginning, Chris didn’t agree to the marriage alliance with Winston. It was her husband’s fear of offending Winston that led him to leave the decision to Zelda.

The result…

She almost lost her biological daughter she had worked so hard to recognize.

“Mom, Charles and I…”

“Knock, knock.”

The sound of knocking interrupted what Zelda wanted to say.

“Mom, is Zelda awake? I made some porridge and a few dishes. If Zelda is awake, let her eat something.”

It was Elle.

Zelda’s expression changed, and her eyes shimmered with hatred.

That “good sister” who killed her daughter and her parents!

In this lifetime, she would make sure Elle wouldn’t harm her parents and would kick Elle out of the Roscente, reclaiming the identity of the Roscente’s heiress.

Everything Elle had in her previous life, Zelda would destroy in this lifetime. She wouldn’t let Elle become a winner like in the previous life.