"It's not a coincidence!" Bella sat up straight, her eyes burning with intensity. "Aunt Mila didn't mistake what she saw. There is a man who looks exactly like Hugh! I know him. His name is Jace. I met him while I was under Christopher's control on Rose Island in Sentania!"

The Thompson family was utterly stunned.

"Bella! Is he Hugh?!" Wyatt pressed for an answer.

Bella bit her lip, falling silent. She was deep in thought. 'Why would Jace appear at the hospital at this time?'

There was only one possibility. That night, the person who hit her with the car was Jace. The person who brought her to the hospital was also Jace.

But when she woke up after losing consciousness, the first person she saw was Grant.

'Christopher, Jace, Grant...'

Suddenly, Bella felt a shiver run down her spine, as though she had just woken from a dream.

A thought leaped into her mind, one that seemed absurd on the surface but terrifying when examined closely.

Bella did not believe in coincidences, especially when all the coincidences seemed intricately connected.

up!" Mila's eyes were red with urgency. "Is he

suddenly brightened with realization. "Aunt Mila, did you say that he was smoking in the hallway? Did he leave after finishing his cigarette,

scared him off. He crushed the cigarette and left in

my brothers to go to that balcony and look for

as though the fog of deception and confusion before her was beginning to clear. "Then, take that cigarette butt and compare

of his leather jacket, walked alone through the

to be his mother, and his

"Jace!"

and he saw Clarice approaching with a cold look on her face. "Why are you still here? Didn't the Boss tell you to leave immediately after bringing Bella to

eyes narrowed. After he had delivered Bella to the hospital two nights ago,

of the emergency room alive. So he stayed, watching from the

this woman was a snake, a scorpion-cold-blooded under a human disguise and anything but human. He

After all, the Thompson family is here now." Jace's

precisely because the Thompson family is here that

step closer, his voice low and dangerous.

you've already shown your face in front of Drew. If the Thompson family finds out you're

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