Chapter 714

Less than five minutes later, Joan came out with an old, broken doll in her hands.

“Joan, where did you go?” Mona came down from Thaddeus’ arms and went over to the woman.

Joan's face was streaked with dried tear marks as if she had just cried. “I feel like my child is still inside, like she’s still alive. I went upstairs and found her favorite doll.”

Joan was deeply shaken, and her concentration drifted. Then, she suddenly realized the problem. “Why are my child’s things in there? Why are they here at your house?”

“This isn’t your child, Joan,” Thaddeus said coldly. “I heard from my mother that the things in this house belonged to a child of one of the servants. The servant helped our family a lot and even saved my father’s life once, so my father allowed the servant and his family to live here.”

Joan shook her head. “No. No! That memorial tablet has my child’s name on it! And this doll…I bought this for Sunny when she was young. How…”

She refused to believe it or accept i