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269. I'M VERY SORRY!
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Now, not only was Vivian crying, but her mother was also crying when she opened the door for her daughter. Her bedroom was near the living room, so the woman might have overheard Vivian's conversation with Steen. And even though Vivian's question was quite vague, she seemed to understand the meaning behind it.
"I'm sorry, Vivi! I'm very sorry!" The older woman suddenly apologized as her cheeks were wet with tears. She didn't even take a step closer to Vivian, leaving a few feet of distance between them as they faced each other in the front of the bedroom.Steen was still there too, and he looked flustered after hearing the old woman's sudden apology. When he turned his gaze to Vivian, he could see how the brunette girl looked hurt, but he didn't understand the reason behind the hurt expression.“Why don't you tell the truth, Mom? Why did you hide everything from me?” Vivian asked coldly, and she didn't respond to the apology at all.It was obvRelated chapters
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That was also what Steen wanted to confirm, and luckily, Vivian asked her mother that question straight away. That was also what Steen concluded from Sarah's story. The woman said that the first time she met Vivian was on a vacation with her husband on their tenth anniversary, and Vivian was right when she said that her mother made absolutely no mention of how she gave birth to her. Thus, Steen concluded that Vivian was not born from Sarah's womb, and Sarah only met the young girl one day while on vacation with her husband. When Steen turned to Sarah again, he could see how frightened she looked after hearing Vivian's question. The fear on the woman's face was clear, even her lips were trembling so she couldn't immediately answer the question. At this moment, Steen could get answers from her silence, and maybe Vivian was the same as him. The young girl could definitely understand the meaning behind her mother's silence. “What happened that day, Mom? How
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Citrus and sandalwood. A familiar scent greeted her nostrils, but this time she wasn't just relying on her nose to study her surroundings. Today, she could use her pair of eyes to see what kind of place it was, and that was why she kept her eyes fixed on surveying her surroundings. She was in a spacious room that looked like a living room. There was a set of black leather sofas along with a coffee table, there were two large glass cabinets displaying various items, and everything was so neat and clean that not even a speck of dust dared disturb the harmony. If she could use three words to describe this place, then she would use “simple, classy, and elegant” after she managed to see everything she couldn't see before. "You can rest in one of the bedrooms in this place," Steen broke the silence in the room when he could see how the girl standing beside him couldn't stop looking around her. "Which room?" Vivian replied. "Is that where y
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Steen looked taken aback, but he didn't say anything and just took his phone out of his jacket pocket, then he opened the gallery app on his phone. His thumb moved swiftly across the screen to find something, and after finding what he wanted, he used his index finger and thumb to zoom in on the image displayed on the screen, and he was once again dumbfounded when he finally understood the meaning behind Vivian's words. After finding his mother's treasure box, Steen focused more on the diary and phone his mother left behind, and because of that, he paid little attention to the photographs left by the woman who gave birth to him years ago. He thought those photos were only treasured by his mother and wouldn't be able to provide him with any information, and that was why he ignored them and didn't look at them carefully unlike how Vivian did when she looked at the photos one by one with extra attention. Finally, Vivian found something from one of the photo
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She looked confused. She looked confused as two pairs of eyes continued to stare at her intently ever since she arrived at this place. "What... what happened here?" Previously she only called Vivian when she had something she wanted to ask, but then Vivian asked her to come somewhere without letting her voice her question. In the end, Elena went to the penthouse, and she was currently sitting across from Vivian and Steen in the living room. She also looked surprised at how Vivian and Steen were together at the moment, but when she could see how the two looked like they had serious matters they wanted to discuss with her, she decided to hold back her curiosity and didn't immediately ask for more explanation on why they could be together at this time. She only asked about what was going on, but she did not immediately receive a verbal answer to her question. Instead, Vivian simply pushed a piece of paper on the coffee table towards her, and she
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Vivian had told Elena that she was not her mother's real daughter. Her mother only found her in a car accident two decades ago, and because she wouldn't let her go, she started raising her as her own child. Vivian had told Elena that their parents had died in the accident, and until now she still didn't know their identities because Steen also didn't know the woman who posed alone with his mother in front of the camera. Vivian also told Elena that her mother had hidden everything very neatly until now. If it weren't for the photo left by Patricia Dahl, she might not have known the truth until now. Vivian had revealed everything in front of Elena, but the girl sitting across from her still didn't give a response. Elena just looked blank, and it was clear she was shocked by the story she had just told. Sure enough, it was hard for Elena to believe everything, right? “Perhaps this truth will be bitter for you, but I have to tell you tha
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Lily's eyes once again widened in shock after hearing Vivian's cold command. Not because Vivian dared to order her like that, but because of the order that had just left the girl's lips. "What... what are you talking about?" Nervously, Lily responded to Vivian. “I am Elena's mother, and I never abandoned her! How can you carelessly say that I dumped her twenty years ago?" Lily tried to deny the accusation, but she looked really nervous at this time. Cold sweat had even started to coat her forehead, and the three people sitting with her in the living room could definitely see how she was trying to hide something. "Vivian didn't speak carelessly," Steen responded to the curly woman, and before he continued his words, he took something out of his jacket pocket before shoving it to where Lily was sitting. “Look at the woman in the photo, the one who has two toddlers in her lap, and tell me whether or not that woman is you.” It was a photo found in
I'm a Prostitute, Not a Substitute 277. THE REAL CRIMINAL
"YOU ARE THE REAL CRIMINAL, LILY VESTER!" Elena even got up from her sitting position pointing at Lily who was still sitting on the sofa in front of her. Lily had just confessed her crime two decades ago, and it was Elena who reacted immediately to the confession. "Calm down, Elena!" Vivian replied as she too stood up from her seat and walked over to Elena before trying to push the girl into the sofa again. “She has confessed what she did to you many years ago, but we still need to hear more from her, right? That's why we shouldn't be shaken by our emotions." At this time, Elena finally learned of her origins. She wasn't part of the Vester family, but she was part of a family that had bad luck years ago. By now, Elena was truly furious, but she still listened to Vivian as she once again sat down on the sofa behind her. Seeing how well Elena was listening to her, Vivian finally breathed a sigh of relief before returning to her seat next to Stee
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