"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 he Hugh? Hugh didn't die... He survived, didn't

realization. "Aunt Mila, did you say that he was smoking in the hallway? Did he leave after

crushed the cigarette and left

balcony and look for the cigarette butt

before her was beginning to clear. "Then, take that cigarette butt and compare it to Hugh's DNA. We'll know whether

of his leather jacket, walked alone through the hospital's

his mother, and his heart clenched painfully. His mind was a

"Jace!"

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

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

and feared that she might not make it out of the emergency room

a scorpion-cold-blooded under a human disguise and anything but human. He would not reveal a

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

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

step closer, his voice low and dangerous.

after 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 seen together, Bella could start

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