“Oh!” The employee who was still sympathetic
immediately changed his face and spat at my
body: “This kind of mistress who destroys other
people’s families deserves to die.”
Chapter 2
It was late when Liam suddenly remembered he
hadn’t checked on Grace.
He stood up, saying goodbye to Chloe’s
parents. “Mom, Dad, you guys stay with Chloe.
I’m gonna go see Grace.”
Chloe’s eyes immediately welled up. “Liam,
can’t you stay?”
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“Chloe,” Liam said, his voice dripping with
sympathy. He wanted to refuse, but Chloe cut
him off.
“Liam, have you forgotten? When your business was on the brink of collapse, I wired you money
to help you out.”
“To get that money, I was working three jobs
and even selling plasma,” Chloe said, tears
welling up. “Have you forgotten?”
Liam sighed. Of course, he remembered. When
Brad handed him that wire transfer slip, he silently vowed to himself that he would repay
Chloe, no matter what.
After Chloe came back sick, he hired the best
doctors and teams to find a solution for her.
Until Chloe cried and said that only Grace could
save her.
Liam sighed again. Now that Chloe was saved,
would he and Grace finally be able to put this
behind them?
With that thought in mind, he spent the next
two weeks by Chloe’s side.
Occasionally, he wondered what Grace was up
to, if she was still mad at him.
Thinking of this, he’d personally pick out
jewelry, accessories, and desserts that Grace
used to like and send them to Grace’s room.
But no matter what messages he sent Grace,
she never replied.
He couldn’t help but feel a little frustrated.
He’d already given Grace an out, so why was
she still being so stubborn?
Over the years whenever she had problems
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Over the years, whenever she had problems
with his adopted parents, did she never
consider the reason?
If she were a little softer, a little more humble, if
she had been more tolerant of Chloe when they
came home, would she have been resented by
her own parents for so long?
He sighed, rubbed his temples, and said to
Chloe’s parents, “Mom, Dad, I’m with Chloe. Do
you guys want to go see Grace?”
The parents, who had been all smiles,
immediately frowned.
“Grace probably doesn’t want us to see her,”
Chloe’s father said, his voice low. “After she
drove Chloe away, I hit her. She’s been holding
a grudge ever since and won’t come home
anymore.”
“I’m not going,” Chloe’s mother said. “She gave
hor torus to Chlon
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her uterus to Chloe as repayment. I’m going to
let her suffer a little so she won’t keep bullying
Chloe when she comes home.”
Hearing Chloe’s mother say that Grace could
come home, Liam’s tight frown finally relaxed.
“Don’t worry, she won’t dare anymore,” he said.
As he spoke, there was a knock on the door
from the media.
“Mr. Thompson, we’re the media you scheduled
to interview.”
Liam remembered that the company had come
up with a plan to have the media interview Liam
and his wife to coincide with Valentine’s Day.
Liam had agreed because he hadn’t introduced
Grace to the media and the outside world in
years.
But he didn’t expect to run into surgery.
He waved his hand. “I’m sorry, my wife just had
surgery, so she probably can’t be interviewed.”
“It won’t be too disruptive,” the reporter said
with a smile. “We’ll just say hello to the viewers
on the livestream, which will show your
affection for your wife.”
“We’ve been teasing the event for a few days,
and viewers are saying how sweet you and your
wife are in the photos of you holding her in the
hospital bed.”
The smile froze on Liam’s face. He hadn’t even
seen Grace, so when did he take pictures with
her?
“You must be mistaken…”
Before he could finish, the reporter had already
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turned on the camera and pointed it at Chloe:
“Mrs. Thompson, hello. Mr. Thompson has put
aside all his work to be with you since your
surgery. What do you have to say about that?”
Chloe’s cheeks flushed red, and she shyly
glanced at Liam before sweetly greeting the
camera: “Hello, everyone.”
“I’m very touched,” she put her hand on her
stomach, “Liam is already thirty, and I want to
give him a gift.”
The reporter said with a smile, “The comments
are praising you two for being so loving, and
some people are asking if you have children…”
“Enough!” Liam blocked the camera.
The reporter and Chloe both froze.
Liam’s face was angry and confused. “She’s not
my wife, where did you hear all this gossip
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The reporter was confused. “Didn’t you admit it
yourself?”
“When did I say that?” Liam said, his voice
rising, “To protect my wife’s privacy, I’ve never
revealed her identity.”
The reporter looked at Chloe, who was pale,
with suspicion.
“This is my wife’s sister,” Liam explained,
“She’s not married yet, so don’t say things
randomly.”
“Huh?” The reporter was surprised. “But the
photos of you and her were posted on your
official account, and the caption said that a
good thing was coming, so viewers wanted to
know if the good thing you were talking about
meant having a baby…”
Liam’s heart tightened, and he immediately.
pulled out his phone. Sure enough, in the days
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account had actually posted the pictures.
It was a candid shot of him holding Chloe.
He was furious.
“Get the person who took this photo and delete
it immediately.”
The person in question was found, looking
confused.
“We didn’t make it up, didn’t you say this room
was for Mrs. Thompson?”
“Besides, you never denied it when we called
Chloe Mrs. Thompson.”
“You’ve been with Chloe all the time.”
Liam’s veins were throbbing, he wanted to get
angry, but he didn’t know who to be angry with.
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He could only say in a dark tone, “Don’t say
that again, my wife is Grace! The donor of this surgery.”
As soon as he finished speaking, a file in the hands of a nurse fell to the ground with a thud.
Liam looked over and saw that the pale nurse looked familiar.
“You…”
His eyes were suddenly drawn to the necklace around her neck.
“Where did you get the necklace around your
neck?”
His heart sank. This necklace was clearly a gift he’d asked Brad to give to Grace a few days
ago as a way to apologize.
How could it be on a purono nook now?
How could it be on a nurse’s neck now?
A picture suddenly flashed in his mind.
That’s right, this nurse, she was the one
pushing a body away when he met her that day.
His heart was seized, and a bad thought kept
circling in his mind.
“That day, the body you pushed away, who was
it?”
He grabbed the nurse’s shoulders and
demanded, “Whose was it?!”
“Could it be…”
“Mr. Thompson,” Brad stopped him.
“Where’s Grace? Why is the gift I asked you to
give Grace on her?”
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“It’s not my business, it’s not my business,” the
nurse said in tears, “I picked it up.”
“The madame threw all the gifts away,” Brad
said slowly.
Liam slowly let go of her hand, as if relieved.
“I’m sorry,”
He couldn’t hide the fatigue and displeasure on
his face. “Grace is too thoughtless, she almost
made me think something happened to her…”
“Where is she now? Did she go home?”
Brad hesitated. “Well, I don’t know…”
“Why doesn’t she know she’s wrong yet?!”
He bypassed Brad and planned to talk to Grace
in person.
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But after asking around, no one knew where
Grace lived.
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“All the patients in the VIP ward checked out a
few days ago, except for Ms. Thompson’s
room.”
