Chapter 7
I saw the news on my phone. Although the image was blurred, and they used aliases in the text, when I saw the photo, my heart tightened. The ring on the body’s left hand, on the middle finger, was unmistakably my parents‘ wedding ring–the only one in the world.
I wouldn’t be mistaken!
At that moment, my mind went blank. The only thing my remaining rationality told me was that I had to make a phone call to confirm the truth.
I dialed my mother’s number, but it went unanswered. So, I called the family maid, and this time, the call went through.
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“Miss, wasn’t it you who invited Mr. Duncan to go hiking?”
“Me?”
The phone slipped from my hand…
At that moment, the harsh words Karena had left me with in the café echoed in my mind…
A conspiracy!
This is a conspiracy!
I ignored the dull ache in my belly and immediately picked up the phone to call Karena.
A
“Karena, how dare you harm my father? Are you even human? My father adopted you and treated you like his own–how could you be so beastly and kill him?”
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“Ah? What are you barking about?”
I broke down and screamed, “Stop pretending! Did you invite my father to go hiking and cause their fall off the cliff?”
“What nonsense are you talking about? Dad is fine! Didn’t Gavin tell you?”
“Told me what?”
“Tsk, so you know nothing, huh? How pitiful!” Karena’s voice oozed with smugness. “Gavin found an expert abroad who could cure your mother, but it was hard to get an appointment. Money doesn’t work. Your father voluntarily suggested going to talk to the expert, so he went abroad! And here you are, cursing him to death as his daughter? And slandering me? If you’re crazy, go get treated!”
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Karena spat out an insult, calling me “crazy” and then hung up the phone.
My mind went blank.
If that were true, Gavin never told me about this, but my father would never keep something like this from me, right?
My father knew better than anyone how much I wanted my mother to wake up!
What is
going on here?
I immediately called Gavin to get the truth!
Gavin said I was pregnant, and perhaps my hormones were unstable, which made me overthink and mistake the body in the news for my father’s.
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To ease my mind, he even had my father make a video call to assure me that he was abroad and to not worry.
I stared at my father in the video, feeling something was off. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what it was, but something just didn’t feel right.
After the call, the maid called me again. “Miss, there’s been a rise in scams lately. I accidentally clicked on a link, and my phone got hijacked. It just got back to normal, and I realized I had called you. You weren’t tricked, were you?”
Her words eased my doubts.
If my father was okay, that’s all that mattered!
I just hoped he could quickly meet the expert
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and get my mother treated so she could wake up soon!
Time flew by, and before I knew it, the day of the wedding party arrived.
During this time, my father occasionally sent messages saying he was still negotiating with the expert.
I didn’t suspect anything and was full of hope that he would succeed.
I wore a custom–made evening gown and went with Gavin to the Wright Manor for the wedding party.
At only two months pregnant, my belly wasn’t showing much, so I looked almost the same as usual in the gown.
The party was lively, filled with influential
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figures from the business and political worlds, all accompanied by their dates.
But what I didn’t expect was that Karena was also there.
I ran into her in the restroom.
“Surprised to see me here?” Karena smiled at me, her eyes glinting. “I’m not here for Gavin. I’m here for you.”
“For
e?”
“Of course!”
Karena approached me, and when I wasn’t paying attention, she pressed a handkerchief soaked in sleeping powder over my nose and mouth.
