"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.

were red with urgency. "Is

was smoking in the hallway? Did he leave

him off. He crushed the cigarette and left in

that balcony and look for

beginning to clear. "Then, take that cigarette butt and compare it to Hugh's DNA. We'll know whether it's him or not with a single

leather jacket, walked alone through the hospital's underground parking lot, his expression

the woman who claimed to be his mother, and his heart

"Jace!"

snapped up, and he saw Clarice approaching with a cold look on her face. "Why are you still here? Didn't the Boss tell

narrowed. After he had delivered Bella to the hospital two nights ago, his heart remained unsettled, though he

feared he had hit Bella too hard and feared that she might not make it out of the emergency room alive. So he stayed, watching

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

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

blurted out anxiously, "It's precisely because the Thompson family is here that you shouldn't

took a step closer, his voice low and dangerous. "What do you

be underestimated, and you've already shown your face in front of Drew. If the Thompson family finds out you're at the hospital, they might connect you to her car accident.

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