In the Lap of Luxury novel (Grace and Benjamin) novel Chapter 404

Adeline seemed to lose focus momentarily. Then, she said, "Why do you want to know about this? Isn't it normal for friends to lose contact?"

"But you grew up together, and you must have a deeper relationship than most people. Something in particular must have happened to make you suddenly break off contact with each other, right?"

Adeline smiled slightly. "You're overthinking this. It wasn't anything in particular. It was just that our paths in life diverged.

"She's now an internationally renowned designer who's in high demand. I'm just a single mother who was cheated on by a scumbag. I'm just scraping by with this bookstore.

"The two of us live in two completely different worlds. There's no need to bring up the past, is there?"

"Is that true?"

"Why should I lie to you?" Adeline looked perfectly calm.

She asked instead, "Why did you come to me? What's your purpose? I doubt it's that simple, is it?"

Grace voiced out her doubts. "Ms. Wentworth, I won't hide things from you. I suspect that the Jessica we're seeing now isn't the real Jessica. Someone else has replaced her."

Adeline looked startled. It took her several seconds to pull herself together.

In disbelief, she said, "You must be joking! A person getting replaced by another person? That only happens in the movies. How could it happen in real life? Stop joking around with me."

Grace stated the evidence for her theory. "It does sound ridiculous, but no matter how much a person changes, their blood type won't change. Their design style wouldn't change either."