"Susan?" Tessa continued her line of questioning. "Isn't she locked up in the detention center?"
Stephen finished switching his footwear before replying, "I'm sorry, Tessa. I was worried you would be anxious so I didn't tell you. A month ago, Susan lied that she was pregnant. When she was on the way to the hospital for a check-up, she was kidnapped."
His story checked out with what Zachary had told her the night before. The only difference was that Stephen had used the word "lied".
"Lied? So she wasn't pregnant?"
Stephen nodded. "Yup. We've been searching for her ever since she was kidnapped. We finally found her on the Castellion border, in an area infamous for telecommunications fraud. She admitted herself that she wasn't pregnant."
Tessa followed after Stephen as they headed to the living room. "Who kidnapped her? What were their motivations?"
"That's the reason why I was worried you would be anxious." He turned to her with a somber expression. "The person who kidnapped her is someone considerably powerful. After some initial investigation, I'm sure that he kidnapped her because of me."
Stephen frowned. He was quiet for a moment, expression grim, before he continued, "Last night… when I was on the way to pick you up, I received a call informing me that Susan is dead."
Tessa's eyes widened, her expression turning into fright.
"When my people found her, we had planned to ask her who was manipulating things behind the scenes. However, she was silenced before we could get any answers."
Terror gripped Tessa. Susan had been guilty, and she had also hated Susan. Yet, Tessa believed that the law would punish her adequately since Susan was charged with kidnapping and attempted homicide. Based on how the court operated in this day and age, she wouldn't have received the death penalty.
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The readers' comments on the novel: His Unveiled Passion
Whoa! Hahahahahaha! Go, Sophia! Burn, stupid Rowena! Lol...
Sooo~ Chapters 310-318 were just a repeat of Jacqueline’s punishment, official expulsion from the Jacobson family, and arrest. With few changes since Tessa and Stephen are not together this time. So Tessa didn’t witness how Jacqueline was tortured at Stephen’s base, though at least Tessa was still called over and witnessed how Stephen officially expelled Jacqueline from the Jacobson family and how Stephen’s subordinate made Jacqueline grovel in front of Tessa. Lol. I hope Jacqueline’s really out of the story now....
Also a lot of chapters were missing here. I went back to the application where it was originally published that’s why i know that this site is not reliable...
Fucked up book! Seems like the authors were not talking to each other. LOL. Yes authors, because of the inconsistencies....
The story went downhill after pg200 1. Why is Jacqueline back… she was expelled from the family already 2. There was no reason for Rowena to be mad at Tessa 3. The Jacobson already knows that Stephen wants to get back witb Tessa after they deal with James, so why is Rowena pushing hard? LOL 4. The family also knows that Stephen and Nancy have some sort of deal. The story was okay from page 1-199, but clearly it’s a thumbs down. I can deal with grammatical errors, but story errors is just different now....
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....