The Unwanted Daughter When Love Comes Too Late novel Chapter 276

Chapter 276 One–Way Ticket

Chapter 276 One–Way Ticket

Liam froze, clearly caught off guard.

Slowly, the color drained from his face.

He remembered.

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It was during Erin’s first year back with the Jackmans, on his birthday. Tracy had saved for months to surprise him with a carefully customized sports car. She presented it as a gift–only for Liam to smash it with his own hands.

Why? Because he believed Erin’s lie–that Tracy had ruined the cake Erin had baked for him out of jealousy.

Even when Tracy produced evidence to prove her innocence, Liam ignored it. All it took was a single tear from Erin. He barked at Tracy in front of everyone.

Liam cursed, “You think I’ll believe this evidence of yours? Tracy, no matter what you bring me, anything connected to you is a lie in my eyes!”

And then, the cruelest cut of all, “Because you’re nothing but a spiteful, jealous witch who bullies Erin!”

Now, watching Liam’s reaction, Tracy’s smile twisted with scorn. “Looks like Mr. Liam remembers everything.”

Liam swayed on his feet, his face pale as paper. “I … I … ”

For a long time, he couldn’t find his voice. He didn’t even dare meet Tracy’s eyes.

Under the weight of her mocking gaze, Liam finally found his voice again.

“CeeCee, I know I was wrong. I know I hurt you badly. I’m sorry. I’ll do anything to make it up to you. Please … just give me one more chance.”

Tracy’s voice was calm, her face unreadable. “If I killed you and then stood at your grave and told you I’m sorry, would you forgive me?”

Liam flinched. He didn’t understand why she had to make it sound so dramatic.

Yes, he had wronged her, but he had been tricked. And now that he realized his mistake, shouldn’t she at least let him try to make amends?

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They were both still young, and she was standing here alive and well. Why couldn’t she just give him a chance to make things right?

He couldn’t understand her, nor could he answer.

So he asked instead, “What do I have to do for you to forgive me?”

Tracy’s eyes locked on his. She wasn’t angry, only deadly serious. “Can you go back in time? Can you erase everything that happened to me?”

Liam’s mouth went dry. He couldn’t answer.

Tracy gave a small, bitter laugh. “If you can’t, then stop asking for forgiveness. You make me sick.

With those last words, she walked away. The papers she’d been holding slipped from her hand, falling to the ground.

She left them there, abandoned like the foolish family she had already cast aside.

The sight made Liam stagger. His legs nearly gave out.

Norris appeared out of nowhere and caught him before he fell.

He had clearly been watching for a while, though he didn’t fully understand what had just happened.

Why was Liam so certain the test results were true? Why had Tracy spoken with such cold finality?

Liam fell into a trance. It took him a long time to recognize who was holding him.

“Norris …” His voice was hoarse, almost breaking into a sob.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something. He grabbed Norris’s hand tightly.

“Norris, you’ve been looking into Tracy’s time at the academy, right? Did you find anything? Did something happen to her there that made her hate me this much?”

His voice shook, and so did his hands. “I know I was wrong. I know I hurt her. But tell me what she went through. I’ll suffer the same pain, even ten times worse if I have to–if that’s what it takes for her to forgive me.”

For the first time, the proud, reckless Liam looked broken, his pain laid bare in front of

everyone.

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Norris, who had grown up with him and always treated him like a younger brother, felt his chest tighten at the sight.

He hesitated, then said quietly, “I didn’t find out what she went through during those two years. But the academy itself … something about it is wrong.”

The Gills held power in Cloudville equal to the Jackmans. Even though the academy was supposed to be a closed, secretive place, with Norris’s resources it should have been possible to uncover something.

Yet no matter how hard he tried, he found nothing.

Not her classmates, not her teachers, not even a trace of her daily life.

Norris was about to take full control of his family, and he had both the means and the wits to handle it. That was why this strange silence gnawed at him.

Something about the academy wasn’t right. He consideredvisiting in person, but he couldn’t get past the gates.

Even leaning on his family influence, he found the academy untouchable.

As if someone far more powerful than his family stood behind it, protecting it.

But these were things Norris couldn’t tell Liam.

Liam, however, had already become obsessed. He refused to let go without an answer.

In his mind, if he could endure what Tracy had endured–if he could feel the same pain she had once suffered–then she might forgive him. And maybe, just maybe, their relationship could return to what it had been before Erin stepped into their lives.

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