Tessa stood in the middle of the howling wind. The tip of her nose had already turned red from the biting cold. Her heart squeezed painfully.
Anne was only 11 years old, yet her life was already coming to an end. For the sake of his sister, Lucas had dropped out of school early, choosing instead to work to earn money to pay off her medical bills. Now that he was crippled, his ability to work had been taken from him. He had only just turned 19.
The silence stretched on for a long time.
Tessa pulled out her phone and placed a call. "Contact a few hematologist-oncologists for me. Also, come over to Eastview Hospital on Brighton Street. We'll arrange for a hospital transfer for a pair of siblings."
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After leaving the hospital, Tessa left for the law firm to organize the information for Lucas' case. When the Social Security Administration opened on Monday, she would bring Lucas to file for a workplace injury assessment.
Tessa was swamped with work for the whole afternoon. She was so busy that she forgot that she promised Stephen to meet up with him at night.
When Stephen called her, she was still looking through the case documents.
"Tess, where are you? I'll pick you up."
"Huh?" It was as if she was snapped out of a dream. "Oh! I forgot to tell you. I'm working overtime at the law firm."
"Overtime?" he questioned. "Didn't you go shopping with Sienna?"
Tessa cradled her phone between her neck and shoulder. Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she answered, "No, I accepted a last-minute case, so I went back to the firm to organize the information for it."
"Have you eaten?" Stephen asked.
"No."
"I'll pick you up for dinner. You can continue with your work tomorrow. It's already so late."
Tessa glanced at the time displayed at the bottom right corner of her monitor. "Okay. I'll be at the firm. You can come over."
"Alright. Wait for me. I'll be there in 20 minutes."
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The readers' comments on the novel: His Unveiled Passion
This is funny! Jacqueline was also the culprit why James knew that nancy was Stephen's cousin. So, really, what happened when steohen tortured jacqueline hahah...
I wonder how many authors does this book have? Suddenly jacqueline was back and continue to bad mouth tessa. And was stunned that tessa knows her feelings about stephen. And then rowena was freaking mad at tessa too; because there werw multiple instances that tessa sharp-tongued her. 🤣...
What is wrong with the story flow? At chapter 160-164 there’s this whole thing about Stephen revealing in front of all the Jacobsons family members about Jacqueline’s inappropriate feelings towards him and her involvement in murder. There’s even this “Just like that, Jacqueline was officially expelled from the Jacobson family. Stephen then promptly handed her to the authorities.” So I was already glad the bitch is out of the picture. And then suddenly at chapter 236, Jacqueline appears again like nothing happened, still being the adoptive daughter of the Jacobson family and the family being unaware of her feelings for Stephen. Seriously? Doesn’t make sense anymore....
The latest update is just a repetition of the previous chapters...
I don’t like that Stephen is dropping Tessa. They could work together to go after James. But if this happens then I’ll stop reading....
Whats wrong with the typing?? There a lot of weird words...
More frequent updates please...
When will there be more chapters...