Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 567

Sylvia held up the tiny shoe, perfectly acting out the role of a hysterical, heartbroken mother.

"I just asked her to call me Mommy, but she refused and tried to run away! I grabbed onto her, but she bit me, slipped, and fell right into the water!"

"What did you just say?"

The words struck Ivy like a bolt of lightning. She threw herself against the stone railing, desperately searching the murky depths of the city's treacherous river.

A split second later, she hoisted herself up, fully prepared to dive into the raging currents to find the child.

Bystanders, assuming she was trying to end her own life, rushed forward and grabbed her arms.

"Miss, what are you doing? Don't do anything stupid!"

Ivy violently clawed at the strangers holding her back, tears streaming down her face.

"My daughter! My daughter fell in! I have to go find her! Let me go!"

The good Samaritans held on tighter, refusing to let her jump.

"The river is incredibly deep and murky! Jumping in now won't guarantee you find her! We've already called the police—let the professionals handle the rescue!"

Ignoring her frantic struggles, they forcefully dragged a hysterical Ivy away from the stone railing.

Her legs completely gave out, and she collapsed onto the pavement in a heap.

She had absolutely no strength left to stand.

She grabbed onto Sylvia's leg, weeping as she screamed at her.

"I trusted you to watch her for two minutes, and this is what happens?! Call Alaric right now!"

Seeing a large crowd gathering around them, Sylvia completely dropped her act. She viciously hurled the little shoe straight at Ivy's face.

"How dare you blame me?! If it wasn't for you playing stepmother, would my daughter be gone?!"

"This is all your fault! You lost my baby! Give me my daughter back!"

Acting like a woman driven utterly mad by grief, Sylvia lunged forward, wildly slapping and hitting Ivy.

Ivy was in a state of absolute shock. Oblivious to the blows raining down on her, she scrambled to pick up Stella's tiny shoe. She simply couldn't comprehend how a child could fall into the river in the brief two minutes she had looked away.

Stella had to be okay.

She was only six years old.