Before Natalie had noticed it, Sharon had already caught it. Pointing at Jacqueline, she declared, “Mommy, Ms. Graham is looking at you with hatred in her eyes!”

As soon as she said that, everyone stopped eating and swung their gazes at Jacqueline.

Meanwhile, Jacqueline had never expected the envy that she usually concealed so well to be discovered by a little girl, who even blurted it. Thus, she hadn’t the time to mask it before everyone turned their gazes on her.

Shane’s face darkened at once. “I need an explanation from you, Jacqueline.”

Natalie didn’t say anything since there was no need for her to do so when he had already spoken. She merely waited for Jacqueline’s explanation.

Jacqueline’s eyes instantly turned red, and she bit her lip. “I… I only… Cough, cough…”

She abruptly went into a coughing fit, coughing so badly that her face turned bright red and tears swam in her eyes. On the whole, she appeared exceedingly pitiful.

Upon seeing that, Shane could no longer muster any anger toward her, his demeanor softening. Putting down his cutlery, he stood up and walked to her back. “Are you okay?” he inquired while patting her back lightly.

However, Jacqueline didn’t answer him as she continued coughing.

After coughing for a while, her eyes suddenly rolled back in her head. She then collapsed onto the table in a dead faint, startling Natalie and Shane.

 

expression tightened, and he immediately scooped Jacqueline up. As he strode up the stairs, he called out to Mrs. Wilson to get her

only Natalie and the two children were

 

calmly as though everything had nothing

her plate, she huffed, “How could Daddy carry

sternly, “That’s enough, Sharon. Ms.

the case, Mommy?” Connor lifted his head and looked at her. “I think she was faking it. She was sitting across from me, so I saw her eyelashes quivering when she collapsed just now.

pursed her red lips without

fine, yet she suddenly started coughing at that precise moment. So, what else could it have been if not

is closed. Let’s eat.” Propping a hand against her forehead, she then forbade them from speaking further, urging them to

children, both Connor and

picked up her cutlery, but she had no appetite, so she put them down again. Taking out her cell

videos popped out with dates

those

on the security footage between eleven o’clock to

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