Horace was so frightened that he grabbed his head and bawled, “What are you doing? Ashlyn, don’t you dare come any closer! This place is full of prison guards. They’ll come after you if you try to hurt me in any way!”

He felt a piercing pain on his scalp. He looked up to see that Ashlyn had wrenched a few strands of hair from his head.

Horace’s face grew even paler. “Why are you doing that to my hair? Who do you think you are to pull my hair like that?”

If this little wretch had already discovered the truth about what had happened all those years ago… if she actually knew that she was…

The more Horace thought about it, the more suspicious he became.

Who had instigated Ashlyn to investigate this? And why had she suddenly gained a grandfather on her maternal side?

Horace couldn

’t help but feel a little panicked.

However, now that he was locked up in jail, there was nothing he could do about it.

“Dad, no matter how you treat me, I’ll always regard you as my father. Only you know how biased you’ve been towards Penelope all these years. Mary has cursed and beat me so many times, but you’ve never uttered a word to stop her. Yet, here I was, wondering why you’ve never loved me.” Ashlyn picked up her handbag and drew a deep breath. “The paternity test results will tell me exactly why.”

Judging by Horace’s reaction, Ashlyn could already deduce the truth behind their relationship.

she really wanted was some sort of evidence

that in mind, her heart went

blurt out, “Why haven’t your stepmother and Penelope dropped by to visit me at

was dumbfounded. He was rotting miserably in jail, but all he

turned around and gazed at Horace with contempt. Pausing deliberately between every word, she said, “You probably don’t know this, but the two of them have left the

up to. Thus, she refused to

widened in disbelief and despair. “How could that

father, Ashlyn turned

still regarded her with the same amount

that, Ashlyn’s heart dropped with a thud, and she felt her chest tightened as

hair and her own

the results would be out at

matter how urgently she wanted to know the

honest, it was

made her feel as though a cat was scratching at her

had never realized how horrible it felt to play the waiting

by herself, massaging her temples

moment, her phone

Jared who had

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