Maisie widened her eyes in disbelief, her mind going blank as she froze in place.

Daniel tried to hold her shoulders, but she recoiled as if electrified. She stumbled back, her eyes revealing a trace of fear.

“Maisie…”

“Is what you’re saying true?” Maisie’s voice quivered. “This… This is too sudden, I…”

Her words were incoherent. She didn’t know how to express the emotions flooding her at that moment.

Panic? Confusion? Anger?

It seemed like all of them, yet also like none of them.

She couldn’t comprehend how she suddenly transitioned from being Cindy’s daughter to the Newhouse heiress. She couldn’t understand why her parents had abandoned her in the first 20-some years of her life.

She didn’t understand what she had done wrong to face this upheaval in her life…

It was too dramatic!

could consider it all a dream, hoping her life would be the same as

lips, inching closer. “Think about it calmly. If you were Cindy’s daughter, why

if someone was choking her, the suffocation climbing

investigating this, and Chris and Lena have been helping me. Chris witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together

checked your DNA…” He paused. “You and

Thinking about the past—the hardships she had endured from childhood and the injustices

that Wilfred feels differently about you, but it’s not a romantic feeling… He doesn’t know this yet, but

at him. “Then, my mother…”Books Chapters Are Daily


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