My 100th Rebirth a day before the Apocalypse novel Chapter 688

She had been abandoned by the roadside as a child. No one had come looking for her, not even when her situation had been reported to the police. How could such a powerful family not have known? How could they have failed to find her all these years?

She had won countless awards, participated in competitions where her face had been displayed at her university, even been featured in interviews—yet they still hadn't found her?

How blind had they been?

Saying that Kisha wasn't feeling bitter about it would be a lie. Ever since she learned she was adopted, she had always wondered—why was she abandoned? And if she wasn't abandoned, then why did no one come looking for her?

To think that the family searching for her had been living in the same city all along—how hard could it have been to find her?

To Kisha, the answer was clear. They had simply moved on. They had another daughter, built a new life, and only pretended to keep searching out of guilt. Finding her for real had never truly been their priority. At least, that's what Kisha believed.

A sarcastic smile spread across Kisha's lips as a cold glint flashed in her eyes. Seeing her expression, Mrs. Evans couldn't help but stammer, "M-My daughter has three little star birthmarks forming a triangle on her right jawline—just like yours. You also match her age, and when I was younger, I looked exactly like you and you also have uncanny similarities to my husband. It was easy for me to tell… and I can feel that it's really you."

But instead of softening, Kisha let out a sharp, bitter laugh.

"You could recognize me as your daughter with just a single look?" Kisha's voice was sharp, her gaze unwavering. "Then tell me—if it was that easy, how did you fail to find me all these years when I was living right under your noses?"

Her pointed question made Emma freeze, her mouth opening and closing as if searching for the right words. The rest of the Evans family paled, uneasy under Kisha's scrutiny.

Emma swallowed hard before attempting to explain. "We did search for you. After the kidnapping… when your father was on his way to exchange the ransom for you, we were told you escaped."

"The kidnappers claimed that you fought back during transport and… ended up falling off a cliff near the mountain road. At first, they assumed you hadn't survived. But when they went to retrieve your body, they only found bloodstains—no sign of you. That's why we believed someone must have saved you. You were only six years old back then…"

Her voice trailed off, but Kisha's expression remained cold, unyielding.

"Whenever we heard news about you, we rushed there ourselves as soon as possible, hoping to find you… we searched for so long… sob, sob…" Mrs. Evans' voice broke as she dissolved into pitiful sobs, overcome by painful memories.

Seeing her unable to continue, Mr. Evans took a deep breath and picked up where she left off, though his face was ashen with sorrow. "At that time, your four brothers were still young—Eric was only 11, Ethan was just 9, and the twins were a year younger. In our desperation to find you, we neglected them without realizing it."

"The twins fell into a coma due to a high fever, and the entire household was thrown into chaos. Amidst everything, I failed to notice that your mother was silently falling into depression, blaming herself for losing sight of you that day.

"Meanwhile, I was struggling to keep everything together—searching for you, taking care of the other children, and managing the company, which was under attack from all sides. If not for the Winters stepping in to support us, I don't know if we would have made it through those years."

"I didn't realize that the entire burden of the family had fallen onto your mother's shoulders, deepening her depression. Losing you only made things worse. I was overwhelmed, unable to do anything." _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}