True Love Deserves a Second Chance
Chapter 253 Welcome Home

Everyone turned towards the door at the sound.

Darren, with a splint on his thigh, sat in a wheelchair. His hair was grayer, and his face was etched with more wrinkles. He looked at Joyce with guilt in his eyes.

Theodore rushed over to block him. "Joyce doesn't have a father like you. Go back to your illegitimate daughter."

Darren didn't get angry. He pleaded, "I just want to see Joyce. It doesn't matter if she acknowledges me."

"You want to see if she's dead yet? If it weren't for Isabella, would she have suffered so much? She'd be dead, and so would her baby, if she hadn't been smart enough to escape!" "Theodore, I know I was wrong. I didn't expect Isabella to do that. It's my fault. Please, just let me see her. Let me apologize."

A cold voice interrupted. "No need. There's nothing to say. Remember, Mr. Vale, I only have one father, Benjamin."

Darren looked at her cold, proud face, so much like Connie's. "Joyce, I'm sorry. I'll give you everything I own, just please, don't hate me. Give me a chance to atone for my mistakes."

Sebastian pulled Joyce into his arms. "Mr. Vale, if Joyce had been burned to death by Isabella, do you think your property could bring her back? She was tied up, beaten, and almost burned to death. Do you think a simple apology can erase that?"

"If it weren't for your cooperation, Isabella wouldn't have escaped from prison and harmed Joyce, almost making her lose her child."

"It's you who started it!"

Darren cried and grabbed Sebastian's hand. "Sebastian, I've watched you grow up. Don't be so heartless. Your father-in-law and your dad have already beaten me. Isn't that enough?"

Sebastian sneered, "When you allied with the four families to attack the Winters Family, were you heartless? If it weren't for Theodore, do you think you'd still be standing here?"

Two police officers walked over with an arrest warrant. "Darren, you're suspected of commercial collusion and conspiracy to escape from prison. Come with us."

Darren looked at Sebastian in disbelief. "Sebastian, I'm Joyce's father, your father-in-law. Is this how you treat me?"

"My father-in-law is Benjamin, not you, and never will be." Sebastian signaled to the police. "Take him away."

Darren was taken away, and the room calmed down.

Sebastian patted Theodore's shoulder, looking serious. "He hurt Joyce. I can't just sit by. I'm sorry."

Theodore shook his head. "I won't blame you. This is the punishment he deserves."

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A nurse ran up to Sebastian. "Mr. Winters, Isabella is refusing treatment. She won't eat or drink, and she keeps saying she wants to die."

Sebastian paused and glanced inside. It was his first time seeing Isabella since the incident. She lay on the bed, wrapped in bandages like a mummy, only able to make humming sounds. He turned to Joyce, his voice gentle. "I saved her. I want her to see our happiness."

Joyce's expression was indifferent. "Let's go in. I think the last person she wants to see is me."

She walked into the ward first.

Isabella was refusing her medicine, her mouth tightly shut. When Joyce appeared, her eyes widened in disbelief, and she made hoarse growling sounds.

Joyce, looking much better after a few days of recovery, walked to her side. "Isabella, didn't expect me to come back alive, did you?"

Isabella struggled on the bed, trying to hit Joyce, but her arms and legs were numb. She cried out in desperation, tears soaking her bandages.

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Joyce took the medicine from the nurse, leaned down, and said coolly, "I faced death and never thought of giving up. How can you have the nerve not to live? Don't you want to see me return to the Vale Family? Don't you want to see me with Sebastian?"

Isabella shook her head desperately, her teeth grinding. But she couldn't even curse.

Joyce leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Don't worry, I'll find the best doctors for you. And I'll find the woman who killed my mother. You'll both face punishment together."

Joyce stood up, looked at Isabella like she was trash, and then turned to leave.

As Joyce and Sebastian walked away, Isabella screamed at the ceiling. She couldn't accept losing to Joyce and having everything taken from her. She could have killed Joyce. She was unwilling to accept defeat.

A few days later, Joyce was discharged from the hospital.

For safety, Sebastian took Joyce and Benjamin back to his villa, assigning a dozen bodyguards to guard them.

Returning felt like a dream to Joyce. She remembered leaving heartbroken, even burying the custom ring under the maple tree. She never thought she and Sebastian would be like this.

Standing in the yard, her emotions were complex. Sebastian hugged her from behind, kissed her neck, and whispered, "Honey, welcome home."

The music suddenly played in the yard. The once quiet lawn filled with people holding colorful balloons. Everyone beamed with smiles and shouted in unison, "Mrs. Winters, welcome home."