“I’m not trying to look down on you. I just think, even a person with a good memory won’t be able to remember all the important points at once. Also, I’m not willing to teach you the second time, Ms. Blake. I placed the phone here to record the process down so that you can refer to it in the future.”Fiona was stunned. Luna’s reason was irrefutable at that moment. She bit her lips, her expressions were rather ugly. “Y-You’re…right. We should record it.”Then, she turned around and started washing the vegetables. In an angle where Luna could not see her, Fiona’s eyes turned resentful.Luna, that hag! How did she know to place a camera in the kitchen! The thing Fiona wanted to do that night was to drug Granny Lynch and place the blame all on Luna! However, with the phone taking a video there, she could not do it anymore! At that thought, Fiona secretly sneaked a glance at the phone. Luna picked a strategic spot. The phone was facing a mirror. Thus, whether she was facing the camer
After buying fruits, Luna was not anxious to go back. She walked leisurely on the road with her things. She even took the chance to call Samson, giving him some guidance.In the end, she received the news from Nigel, making sure that Fiona did what she wanted to do in the kitchen, then only she slowly made her way back. “Luna, you’ve been gone for so long.” The moment Luna returned to Orchard Manor, Fiona came out from the kitchen with an apron in her hand. She smiled brightly. “I almost got Joshua to head out to look for you. I thought you got lost!”Luna smiled calmly. “I had a phone call on the way back, so I walked slower.” Luna accepted the apron from Fiona. She put it on while entering the kitchen.The kitchen was left in the same state when Luna left. Even the camera that was used for recording was still silently laying there.Luna glanced at the Grilled Cajun Shrimp in the distance she did previously. She sneered. Perhaps Fiona had already finished doing what she wanted t
“My memory is not that great. Plus, I haven’t seen Granny Lynch for such a long time.”Then, Luna sighed helplessly. She swapped the Grilled Cajun Shrimp with the dish in front of Fiona. “Granny, here, try this instead. This tastes good too. I made them especially for you.”Granny Lynch’s expressions relaxed a little.“Let’s eat, let’s eat. I’m starving!”Seeing that Joshua was still staring at Luna with a darkened expression, Nellie immediately smiled and placed some food on Joshua’s dish.“Daddy, try the Skinny Orange Chicken Mommy did. It’s really sweet and delicious!”Joshua furrowed his brows and laughed a little. “Sure.”Fiona, by the side, looked at the scene in front of her. Her eyes turned even colder.Nellie called Joshua Daddy and Luna Mommy. She even stressed those words. She was clearly trying to assert Luna’s dominance! Both Joshua and Luna, one of them was Daddy, the other was Mommy. Fiona, on the other hand, was the outsider! At that thought, her already ann
“Mr. Lynch, after the preliminary diagnosis, they are showing signs of being poisoned.”When the family doctor came, he checked up on Granny Lynch and observed the two children. His conclusion was, “Even if they were not poisoned, they must have eaten food that produced toxins. Their symptoms were a reaction to food poisoning.”Joshua furrowed his brows tightly.Poisoned? Food that produced toxins? How did this happen? Fiona and Luna made the meal together. Although Fiona was not great at cooking, Luna was a pro. How could such a thing happen?“This is according to my diagnosis. I have already called an ambulance over, but it’s the suburbs, so we might have to wait a while.”Then, the doctor looked at the feast on the dining table. “Were you having dinner just now?”Joshua nodded. “Yes.”“Then, let me use the time to check the food on the table.”The doctor sighed and took the first aid kit next to the table. “It would be best if I could find out what the poison was.”Fiona’
“But all this while, Granny had been telling me that you’re a good person. She said that know how to take good care of others! How could you…poisoned Granny Lynch!”Joshua frowned hard at Fiona’s words. He swept Luna a cold glance. “You’re the one that made this dish, right?”Luna sneered, “It was me.”Joshua closed his eyes. He secretly clenched his fist.“Fiona’s right. Although Granny did not used to like you, throughout this time, she had always been thinking about the good you do! How could you…”Before Joshua could finish his sentence, the ambulance arrived. Granny Lynch, Nigel, and Nellie were placed into the ambulance. Joshua was worried so he planned to follow them to the hospital.“I’ll come along.” Fiona worriedly bit her lips. Tears kept falling. “Granny Lynch is already so old. She must be extremely uncomfortable.”Then, she could not help but look at Luna. “How could you be so cruel?”Although Fiona did not know why Granny Lynch would be in pain even though she di
“Yes.”Facing Joshua’s stunned expressions, the doctor cleared his throat. “Granny Lynch has been taken to the toilet with the help of the nurses. Although it was laxative, she had been constipated recently. I guess it’s a blessing in disguise.“As for Nigel and Nellie, they did not consume any laxatives. Perhaps they consumed cold things during the afternoon which caused them to have a tummy ache. I’ve already prescribed them some medicine.”The doctor sighed, “But, Mr. Lynch, although it’s only a scare, the food at home has truly been poisoned. You have to carefully investigate this matter.“Also, Granny Lynch can’t consume too many drugs like laxatives.”Then, the doctor closed his file, turned, and left.Joshua furrowed his brows while looking at the doctor leaving. After a while, he turned around. Behind him, Fiona was sitting on the bench with teary eyes. She sobbed while wiping her tears away.“Thank goodness, thank goodness that Granny Lynch only had laxatives. If she at
Joshua could not understand why Luna wanted to go up against such an old person! “Maybe…it was not Granny Lynch who offended Ms. Luna, it was me.”Just when Joshua was clutching Luna’s neck questioning her, Fiona, who had been sitting on the chair in the distance, wiped her tears and stood up.Tears were still in her eyes. She sobbed and looked at Joshua and Luna. “Ms. Luna must have known that Granny Lynch and I did not see eye to eye, so she tried to hurt Granny Lynch and framed it on me.”Fiona cried until her eyes were reddened. “After all, in the entire Orchard Manor, only I would have the motive to hurt Granny…” The more Fiona spoke the more aggrieved she was. She sobbed until her entire body started twitching.Luna was being pinned against the wall by Joshua. She could not help but smile.“Ms. Blake, your act of accusing me is done to perfection. Such great acting skills. It’s a pity you’re not in the entertainment industry!”“Luna!” Joshua’s expressions darkened instant
The atmosphere in the corridor froze.Joshua furrowed his brows and looked at Luna. His gaze was complicated.He remembered that when they reached Orchard Manor that evening, Nellie insisted on letting Granny Lynch drink the lemon iced tea, which was made for Fiona because it has more words than herbal tea.Thus…The laxatives were laced in the beverage meant for Fiona? Joshua was not only the one that was shocked. Fiona too. She bit her lips and glared at Luna. “So, from the beginning, you laced the beverage, wanting to give me diarrhea!”Luna laughed. She turned to look at Fiona coldly. “Why? Can’t I? How many times have you schemed against me all this while, Ms. Blake?”Luna crossed her arms around her chest. Her tone was arrogant. “Last night, My friend John got hurt because he stopped you from killing yourself. You did not even thank him, yet Mr. Lynch had the audacity to threaten us, saying if anything were to happen to you, he would not forgive us.“Yet the next day, yo
At that, he looked at Gwen. "Actually…"Steven found himself unable to finish his sentence. After a long while, he shook his head and smiled. "Forget about it.""Steven…" Gwen looked at him, and her tears fell.Her heart was not made of stone. How could she not know Steven's feelings toward her?She was silent for a long while. In the end, she stood up and slowly walked over to Steven with arms opened wide. "Give me a hug."Steven hesitated for a while, but he still stood up.They hugged."Gwen." Steven hugged her thin figure. "I have to meet you earlier in the next life so I can compete fairly with my brother."Gwen nodded with tears streaming down her face. "Okay."They thus hugged once more. Minutes later…"He's gone," said Stefan.Tears kept falling.They hugged for a while longer before pulling apart. Gwen looked at Stefan with her tear-stricken face. He had tears on his face as well.She bit her lips and reached out to wipe his tears. "A—Are these tears…yours or his?
The next day, Rachel flew from Merchant City to Sharnwick City to diagnose Anne's condition. Theo tagged along as well because he had another identity, Rachel's boyfriend."According to the report, Anne's condition is slowly recuperating." Rachel was relieved after assessing the report. "Although she is very weak, she is going to get better with lots of rest."There is nothing wrong with her vocal cords too. It could be a psychological thing that makes her lose her voice. A knot in her heart that causes it." She looked at Luna, then at John. "Considering all factors, I think that knot is Luna."Rachel continued, "John, I know Luna is the root cause of all these bad things. Being away from Luna, Joshua, and other people is going to guarantee a safer life for you and your family. But have you thought about it from Anne's point of view? Other than you and Sammie, she has her own life and her circle of friends. Never has she blamed Luna for what happened, yet you forced her to leave Lun
It was almost a miracle for Anne to willingly leave the house just to visit him!Robyn, meanwhile, sobbed at the sight.The nurse who accompanied Anne to the ward was puzzled. What was going on with these people?She snuck her phone out of her pocket and took a photo of this surreptitiously. Then, she sent it into the nurse's group chat with the caption, [What a strange family I met today.]The nurses in the group chat began gossiping about this. One of them tagged a fellow nurse named Daisy and said, [Hey, isn't this the guy who saved the old man you're looking after? What a hero!]Daisy was, at this moment, walking into Andy's room to help him change his wound dressing. She saw the message but was not able to type on her keyboard to respond, so she recorded a voice message instead. "Yes, that's the man. What's wrong with his family? What are you guys talking about?"As soon as she finished her sentence, she lifted her head and finally realized that Andy was not there.Instead,
Anne stared at John for a long time before forcibly smiling and told him in sign language, "Robyn didn't return after so long, so I got worried and came by to check on her.""Daddy, Aunt Robyn, are you two hugging?" Sammie asked, blinking innocently as she raised her head in curiosity.John and Robyn turned pale at this.It was understandable for such a young child like Sammie to misinterpret them as hugging, but what would Anne think of this?John leaped off the bed and staggered toward Anne. "Anne, it's just a misunderstanding…"However, he was still so weak that his legs could not hold up the full weight of his body at all, and he almost crumpled to the ground.Quick-witted Robyn managed to catch him before he could fall, but this gesture appeared once again rather intimate to both Anne and Sammie. Sammie furrowed her brow and asked rather indignantly, "Are you hugging again? Daddy, how can you hug Aunt Robyn like this when you've never even hugged Mommy and me like this befor
When the nurse pushed Anne to John's ward, she overheard John and Robyn fighting from the door. The fight was about how John was anxious to return home because he was worried about Anne and Sammie.However, as someone who used to work as a nurse, Robyn knew John should not leave the hospital after being shot by a gun. At least, he needed to stay in the hospital and be observed for 24 hours to make sure that he was fine before leaving the hospital. If an infection happened, John's body would crash easily and he would become weak just like Anne.In the ward, John frowned and talked with a serious tone, "I'm really fine. Get me my clothes so I can go upstairs to thank Miss Andie and go back home immediately. If Anne knows that I'm hurt, she is going to worry. She will easily be suspicious since you haven't gone back home for a long time. What if she worries about me and brings Sammie to the hospital to look for me? Can you bear yourself even just thinking about it? She's weak and Sammie
Sammie's soft and cute babyish voice melted Stefan's heart immediately. It had been quite some time since he actually put a smile on his face. "Hi, there. What's your name and how old are you?"Sammie tilted her head to look at Stefan's handsome face and smiled sweetly, "I'm Samantha but everyone calls me Sammie."Then she did not forget to introduce Anne to Stefan too. "This is my Mommy. Her name is Anne."At this point, Stefan had given all of his attention to Sammie and did not notice Sammie mentioned that her mother's name was Anne. He pinched Sammie's cheek and said, "Your Mommy is not feeling well. You have to be a good girl and take care of her, do you understand?"Sammie nodded seriously and said, "I will.""Alright, sir. I will bring them to where they want to go," the nurse saw Anne signing to her anxiously. She smiled and said, "Don't worry. I will take good care of them."The promise from the nurse gave an assurance to Stefan that they would be well taken off. He smil
This was the first time Anne brought Sammie out. Ever since she escaped from death, she became a different person—a recluse and was afraid of the sun. This situation became even worse after she became mute.The last time she left the house was two weeks ago when she had to go for surgery.However, she worried about John. In the morning, Robyn told her John was hurt and needed to stay in the hospital to rest. However, she had a hard time believing what Robyn said.After spending so many years together with John, Anne reckoned she was the one who knew John the most. If it was a minor injury, John would never want to stay in the hospital. He cared too much about her and Sammie, so he never dared to let her worry about him. Therefore, it just did not sound reasonable if John would stay in the hospital because of a small injury.Furthermore, Robyn had not returned home since the morning, which was nearly three hours since she left the house. After much consideration, she decided to call
Tara fell silent upon hearing this. She bit her lip nervously and shot Gwen a tentative glance. "I didn't mean to offend you, Gwen…" "I know." Gwen let out an exhale and interrupted Tara before she could finish, "I know you meant no harm, but I can't deny that this is something I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around. In the future, neither of you—even you, Luna—should bring this up again." Her love life was such a mess that not even she could unravel the ties, much less expect other people to understand. Tara pursed her lips and did not reply. Luna stared at Gwen in silence for a while before finally saying, "But you have to face this eventually, Gwennie. After all that you've been through with Luke, all of us hope for nothing but the best for the two of you. Even if you avoid it now, you'll have to face the truth eventually. Otherwise, are you planning on spending the rest of your life in this complicated relationship with Luke? Can you bear the thought of not being
Stefan was mildly amused by the look on her face. He extended his arms out in a gesture of defeat and said, "I never intended on ratting you out to Joshua. You three spoke about these secrets in my presence." With that, he shot Andy a rather helpless look. "Don't you agree, sir?" Andy was surprised to be called out all of a sudden. "Of course!" Although Gwen and Luke had been together for a long time, Luke had never much cared for maintaining good relations with his future father-in-law. He always thought his relationship with Gwen did not concern anyone else outside of the two of them. Combined with the fact that Andy had done some hurtful things to Gwen in the past, Luke grew even more disdainful of his future father-in-law. Because of this, he had never given Andy as much as a second glance throughout their relationship and rarely ever addressed him directly like this. The truth was, Stefan had already called out to Andy once before, during their rescue mission the day befor