When Family Became a Place I Couldn’t Return To novel Chapter 311

“No… I have to get justice for my mom.”

Nancy’s eyes burned with anger. She knew how small she was, how hopeless it felt, like trying to hold back the tide with your bare hands. But even if it broke her, she couldn’t run from this. She only had her mother’s diary, and that alone wasn’t enough to take Felix down. Somewhere out there was the real evidence, the thing he’d used to threaten her mom. She had to find it. And not just Felix—everyone who ever hurt her mother would pay.

“I’ll help you.” Jonah’s gaze met hers, calm and steady. In that moment, he didn’t seem like a boy just a little older than Nancy. He felt like someone you could trust, someone who’d always have your back.

Jonah told her to wait, to stay safe, to play along with Felix and patch things up. As Nancy and Felix started to act more like a real father and daughter, Jonah got closer to Felix too. Felix even started to mentor him.

Time flew by and Jonah kept his promise. Nancy never figured out how he did it, but a year later, the man she failed to kill went bankrupt and ended up taking his own life, crushed by debt. Some of his deals with Felix got investigated. Felix managed to avoid any charges, but he lost a lot and took a big hit to his reputation, both in business and within the family.

Nancy was so grateful to Jonah that she wanted to do something for him, just once. So for the first time, she asked Felix for a gift.

That gift was the expensive gemstone bracelet Nelly wears now.

From then on, Nancy’s feelings for Jonah changed completely. She wanted to be with him. She wanted to leave the Watson family by his side.

Their plan was going well. With Nancy’s help, Jonah got into Felix’s company and became his most trusted assistant. All they needed now was the right moment to find proof of Felix’s crimes.

Then one day, Jonah told Nancy he’d found something—a hidden folder on Felix’s computer that probably held all the secrets they were looking for.