A Beauty With Multiple Masks

It was only then that Henrick remembered Shandie was still on the floor, twitching non-stop.

He ordered the housekeepers to carry Shandie downstairs while he prepared to take Arielle along to the hospital.

"Dear! Please take me with you!" Cindy pleaded, tears flowing uncontrollably.

"Shannie is my… She’s one that I watched growing up.I can’t possibly stay at home!"

Despite how pitiful and terrified Cindy looked, Henrick steeled his heart against her.

"No! I want you to reflect on yourself! Can someone take Mrs.Southall back to her room? No one is to let her out without my orders!"

One of the housekeepers immediately nodded and dragged a crying Cindy away while Arielle accompanied Henrick into the ambulance.

"Dad, why don’t we let Aunt Cindy come along? I can see how close she is to Shandie.Leaving her at home will only worry her sick," Arielle softly pleaded.

Alas, Henrick refused to yield.He turned his gaze toward Arielle and sighed deeply.

"You silly child.Life overseas must have been tough, hasn’t it?"

"Not at all.Life was good," Arielle replied and meant every word of it.

She had had a wonderful life abroad, and it couldn’t have been any better.

However, Henrick thought his daughter was merely putting on a brave front and sighed again.

"You’re too naive.How will you survive here in Jadeborough? I’ll have to slowly teach you the ways so you won’t feel out of place."

"Thank you, Dad!"

"We’re family.You don’t have to thank me…"

Before long, the ambulance had arrived at the hospital.

Shandie was immediately wheeled into the emergency room because her heart had stopped beating.

Worried and anxious, Henrick and Arielle paced outside the emergency room as they waited.

was the

Arielle and Shandie were his biological daughters and were crucial to

that something had happened to Shandie, Henrick was naturally scared

what felt like an eternity, the emergency room

doctor walked out, Henrick hurriedly

"Doctor, how’s my daughter?"

of danger but will still need to be monitored for a few more days.This snake venom is especially deadly.If you hadn’t sent her here in time, no one would have been able to save her! But, I have to ask, how

in confusion as he asked, "What do you mean by that? We live in a manor on top of the hill.It’s common for snakes to crawl in,

doctor shook his

snake species belongs in the South, so you won’t be able to find any in the wild here.It had to have come from there.I think this is something you

understanding what the

could have been an intentional

"That’s very possible."

hard that his fingernails bit into

wants to

gaze instinctively fell on Arielle as a

didn’t seem to have noticed her father’s doubts

Dad, you have to get to the bottom of

Arielle cleared whatever suspicion Henrick had of

girl who had only just arrived in Jadeborough couldn’t have carried

wouldn’t have risked her life to fight the snake.I shouldn’t have suspected her! "Let’s go home first, Arielle.I have to investigate

investigate it thoroughly! The snake bit Shandie today, but what if it bit you tomorrow? Please get it checked

Henrick couldn’t agree more.

couple of housekeepers to stay and look after Shandie, Henrick and Arielle left the hospital for the manor, ready to

at the manor, Cindy was busy checking her phone while being confined to

as she got the message that Shandie was safe

relief didn’t last

the snake had been an attempt on Shandie’s life, Cindy seethed with

the housekeepers whispered outside the room, "Mrs.Southall,

enough of

out, but Henrick had locked the door and

throw caution to the wind and broke the door lock

had only just stepped into the house