“I just can’t understand what the parents of this child were thinking. They actually managed to make up their mind to abandon such a lovely child.” Samantha grumbled.Looking at Samantha’s gaze when she was staring at the child, Maisie could see that she really loved children.Maisie thought of the baby she had been carrying three years ago. If the child had not been lost in the accident back then, it should be about two years old now.Kennedy put the baby products away and went into the kitchen. “I guess none of you have had lunch. I’ll cook us something.”Maisie and Samantha were teasing and playing with the baby together. After a while, the baby started giving off cues, indicating that she was hungry, so Samantha went to make her some infant formula milk. After all, neither of them had any breast milk to feed her.Seeing the baby sucking the milk from the bottle, Maisie chuckled.“Do you know how Francisco has been doing recently?” Samantha asked Maisie all of a sudden.Maisi
Barbara stared blankly at the door of the morgue. Nothing was going through her mind, and her lips slowly closed after a long time. “T-This is impossible.”She could not believe it at all.‘Katrina is dead? But how could a woman as cunning and scheming as her die just like that?’Officer Zaleski stared at her. “Ms. Chase, would you like to cross-check her body?”Barbara did not speak.She followed Officer Zaleski into the morgue and stopped right in front of the refrigerated storage cabinet where corpses were stored. Officer Zaleski opened Freezer #16, and the woman lying inside was indeed Katrina.The astonishment in Barbara’s eyes gradually turned into gloominess. She pursed her lips tightly, not knowing what to say and feel at the moment.After a long time, she said with difficulty, “I’ll inform my father about this.”…Maisie did not know about Katrina’s accidental death until two days later, and Nolan was the one who broke the news to her.“That sudden?” Even Maisie was
Helios caught her subconsciously, but it was more like a hug. Barbara’s cheeks rested on his broad shoulders, and her fluffy hair was rubbing against his neck.He sat stiffly as his Adam’s apple rolled before raising his hand to press her head that was tickling his neck downward.In a blink of an eye, he felt a sudden pressure being placed on his upper body and realized that Barbara had fallen asleep with her head tilted and resting against his shoulder and neck. Her shallow breaths gently brushed against his neck, and a strange feeling seemed to have found its way into his heart.He sighed helplessly, picked up Barbara horizontally, brought her into the bedroom, put her on the bed, and tucked the blanket for her.He stood by the bed for a moment before leaving quietly.Nina parked the car at the side entrance of Skyhigh Condo, lifted the rearview mirror, and looked at Helios when he got in the car. “Mr. Boucher, is Ms. Chase okay?”Nina knew that Barbara was the woman who shared
“Ms. Hannigan, I’m doing things for you for the sake of Mr. Grant. However, Mr. Grant is in prison now, and I’ve helped you solve your trouble by killing someone.” The man then scoffed. “Now the police are looking for me everywhere, and I have to leave Bassburgh, but I’ll need some money to do so.”Maizie replied sullenly, “Haven’t I already given you $500,000?”“Ms. Hannigan, how would $500,000 be enough? Mr. Grant gave you more than $500,000 back then, didn’t he? Besides, if I were to be caught by the police, I'd only spend 10 to 20 years in prison. But you’re different. You’re the mastermind of this murder, and let’s not forget your title as the future daughter-in-law of the Bouchers. It would be bad if this were to ruin your future.”Maizie understood the underlying meaning of the man’s words and trembled with wrath. She had been under the impression everything would come to an end after getting someone to solve the trouble that she had initially. Still, she did not expect to ha
“It was very sudden.” Barbara frowned, pondering. “But I think what happened to Katrina wasn’t an accident.”Maisie was stunned. “Not an accident?”She nodded. “I went to see the surveillance footage at the police station during the past two days. The car lingered in the area she got into an accident for a long time. I think it was a planned accident.”Maisie held her chin in thought. “Do you think Katrina made anyone angry?”Barbara thought for some time. “She met Maizie the day of the incident.”Maizie?Maisie squinted. Katrina knew Maizie. Barbara looked at her. “The driver who killed Katrina in the accident, Gideon Robinson, was an escaped criminal from Asperia. I have a feeling that this Gideon might have known Katrina, but I don’t know what she did to anger him.”A convict had come all the way to Bassburgh and killed someone in an accident, and that someone happened to be Katrina. That was too much of a coincidence. Maisie looked up. “I’ll get Nolan to look into Gideon
Nolan didn’t finish his sentence. Maisie arranged the files and raised her brows with suspicion. “We need to find evidence that Maizie wanted to kill Katrina…”Even if they suspected Maizie, they couldn't prove that Maizie had paid off Gideon without evidence.Quincy said, “Once we find out where the money in Gideon’s account came from, we might get our answer.”Meanwhile, at the Bouchers…When Maizie told Elder Master Boucher that she would give birth to a son, Richard was delighted and asked the entire family to dine together. He even got a few more dishes for the babysitter.Maizie was secretly pleased that Richard cared about the great-grandson she was carrying so much. She looked at Francisco, who was quiet and with a stoic expression. If Richard accepted her because of the baby, she wouldn’t need to care if Francisco was happy about it. She was going to marry into the family. Richard looked at Helios. “Look at Francisco. He’s getting married soon. You’re older than him
“Father, there’s no need to wait for the child to be born. We can take a sample now.”“Mrs… Mrs. Boucher, getting a sample now isn't good for the baby.” Maizie turned pale. She hated Christina, who had been trying to stop her. Why wouldn’t this old woman just die?Christina’s expression remained the same. “Don’t worry. We’ll find an expert and won’t hurt the baby or you.”“But—”“Ms. Hannigan, isn’t your child Francisco’s? Why are you hesitant? If you want to be part of the family, you need to take care of the family name, right?”Christina was very pushy, and Maizie almost lost it because she was so nervous. She was lucky that Richard defused the situation by saying, “Enough, the food is getting cold. We should finish it.”Maizie heaved a sigh of relief, but she was still worried and didn’t dare let her guard down. She took another look at Christina, then bit her lip. Her existence was a threat to her. She snapped out of it and then noticed Helios’ eyes. Her heart dropped, b
Barbara was stunned and didn’t speak after a long time. She finished watching the video, and her brows were tightly scrunched together. Katrina had asked Maizie for $8,000,000, and even more shocking was that Katrina knew that the baby Maizie was carrying wasn’t Francisco’s.Was that Maizie’s motive?After a long pause, Barbara thought with her hand under her chin. “I saw Maizie with a man I’ve never seen before the other day.”“When was that?”“The day before Katrina got into an accident,” Barbara recollected. “That man sent her to the cafe, and something seemed to be going on between them.”Maizie was pregnant but claimed that the baby was Francisco’s. Katrina had obviously known that it wasn’t, so she used this secret to blackmail Maizie for $8,000,000.Maisie narrowed her eyes. “I think Maizie was planning to lie to the Bouchers, trying to get into the family with the baby she’s carrying.“She’s quite cunning, so she shouldn’t have left a trace. It will be pretty difficult