From inside the room, Maisie's heart-wrenching sobs echoed through the hallway.
Not knowing what had happened between the siblings, Ivy navigated through the scattered debris on the floor and rushed in to check.
She found Maisie huddled against the headboard, completely bare, clutching the blanket to cover herself as she sobbed uncontrollably, her entire body shaking.
Ivy hurriedly reached out to hold her. "Maisie, what's wrong? Did you have a fight with your brother?"
Maisie continued to cry, entirely incapable of stopping to answer Ivy's questions.
Ivy wasn't naive.
Seeing the unmistakable marks of passion on Maisie's skin, combined with Mason fleeing the room disheveled and frantic just moments ago.
Her jaw dropped in utter disbelief, unable to process the horrifying reality that the siblings...
No, it couldn't be what she was thinking.
They were brother and sister.
No matter how unhinged Mason was, he would never touch his own sister.
She had to be overthinking it.
Ivy looked at Maisie, who was curled up in a weeping ball, and asked softly.
"Maisie, are you alright?"
Maisie finally looked up, her face drenched in tears, grabbing Ivy's hands in sheer desperation.
"Please, you can't tell anyone. Swear to me you'll forget everything you just saw. Promise me you won't breathe a word of this."
She had successfully used the drug her mother gave her to trap her own brother.
When Mason sobered up and realized it was her, he was so consumed by horror that he bolted.
Maisie knew she was acting like a monster.
But what choice did she have?
She owed her adoptive parents her life for raising her.
And the Miller family absolutely could not fall into the hands of an outsider.
So, despite her heart still belonging to someone else, she crossed the ultimate line and slept with her brother.
As Ivy listened, all the color drained from her face.
"But... aren't you blood siblings? How could you..."
Maisie shook her head frantically. "No, I'm not biologically related to the Millers."
"I'm just their adopted daughter."

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