"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.

with urgency. "Is he Hugh? Hugh didn't

say that he was smoking in the hallway? Did he

him off. He crushed the cigarette

to that balcony and look for the cigarette butt he left

though the fog of deception and confusion before her was 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

pockets of his leather jacket, walked alone through the

and his heart clenched painfully. His mind was a

"Jace!"

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

hospital two nights ago, his heart remained unsettled, though

had hit Bella too hard and feared that she might not make it out of the emergency room alive. So he stayed, watching from the shadows. But none of this

human disguise and anything but human. He would not reveal a single thing to

Boss. After all, the Thompson family is here now."

the Thompson family is here that you

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

her own slip of the tongue, she panicked and quickly explained, "Bella isn't someone to 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. If you and the Boss are

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