The Wrong Woman

Chapter 214

Nathan walked into the study. He invited Loretta to sit on the lounge. chair and began seriously questioning her.

“Have you seen Chubs at all during the ten years she was abroad, Madam Hoffis?”

“No,” she replied. “She was extremely occupied with her studies and had no time to return to the country. But we do talk on the phone.”

“What about video calls?”

“Those were quite rare.”

“At what point did you notice that she looked a bit different?”

Loretta was puzzled by his questioning. She nervously sat closer to him and asked, “Why are you asking me all this?”

He pursed his lips and thought for a moment. “Just answer me truthfully. I want to know more about Chubs.”

Upon hearing that he was interested in t jranddaughter, she was overjoyed and began telling him everything.

two. When we

get some minor procedures done to her face. That and being busy from work had worn

your daughter-in-law also in the same video?”

son, my daughter-in-law, and my adopted son, Oliver. They

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having Thanksgiving dinner and called to

finally understood why Zach and Loretta never

same frame as Chubs’ parents.

were their reactions? Was there anything bad? Were they nervous, uptight… Or were they unhappy?”

fell. She thought about it for a while before shaking her

of these calls have you

covered in wrinkles. Her eyes watered as she choked, “I don’t know if they knew what was going to happen. Her parents frequently made video calls to me that month. They even said Sally would be good

of their deaths. By the time we rushed back to Sunterland,

crying as she spoke.

some tissues. He couldn’t bring If to make her

couldn’t stop. She carried on by herself woefully, “Sally is a poor child. She lost her parents so abruptly that we couldn’t do anything but bring her back to the

was indolent and didn’t care for the family business, let alone help her grandfather manage