Chapter 572

And yet, despite the suffering she had endured from him, a part of her still screamed that he didn’t deserve to die the way he did in Brandon’s hands. No matter what kind of criminal he was, Jethro was still her daughter’s father. Lydia had always been soft— so much that some people might even call her a coward.

She was a quiet, servile woman who had always heeded her husband’s beck and call. Perhaps it was also because she depended on him for everything. Now that he was gone, she, too, had lost any semblance of direction.

Lydia looked down at her daughter and closed her eyes in pain, tears streaming down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry, darling…” she slowly uttered to the child in her arms.

The baby, blissfully innocent and uncomprehending, waved her tiny hands and babbled at her mother.

Natalie’s heart sank deeper with every step she took away from the ward.

She was pulled out of her despairing thoughts by the ringing from her phone. She looked at the screen, her brows furrowing at the caller ID.

Why was Brandon calling her?

Sean must have told him about her visit to the hospital. Natalie didn’t answer the call, afraid that Brandon would question her. She put the phone back inside her bag and pretended not to hear anything.

stranger felt familiar for some reason. Natalie was about to take a second look, but she bumped into a man

woman! Don’t you have eyes? You knocked my phone to the ground!” the man cursed

handed it

just seeing things? The woman’s side profile seemed to

against the wall as she gasped for breath. She then gingerly poked her head out from her hiding

the corner. She had never expected to run

It could only mean that Natalie wasn’t able to persuade Lydia to appear

She had already paid someone to pretend to be an employee from Jethro’s factory and tell Lydia that her husband was killed

was easy enough to make up a story where Brandon had bribed the

everything like

woman and a baby. I didn’t take you for this much of a fool, Natalie,” Vivian mocked as she walked into the general

fix.” Before entering the room, Vivian touched

to change her mind later and then take the credit for saving Brandon’s reputation. There wouldn’t be

stepped inside the

as another woman came in. She looked at her new visitor. The woman wore bold make

following this woman. She wasn’t dressed like a reporter

instinctively held her baby

to help you.” Vivian always had a

long as you make everything clear for Brandon at the press conference,

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