Buying My Forever Wife novel Chapter 575

Mason still couldn't fathom a mother being cruel enough to harm her own flesh and blood.

He looked at Alaric. "She's the child's mother. She knew we wouldn't just hand Stella over, so sneaking around to catch a glimpse of her is perfectly normal."

Alaric had zero patience for this debate. He stood up, ready to leave.

"I refuse to believe Stella is gone forever. She has to be alive, and Sylvia is the only one who knows where she is. I'm going to rip the truth out of her."

He just might have to use some less-than-legal methods to break Sylvia.

He hoped it wouldn't take too long.

He didn't want Ivy waiting in Silverton forever.

Mason was still practically shaking with rage. He yelled at Alaric's retreating back.

"You're just making excuses to protect Ivy! If she wasn't your woman, I'd have dragged her back here to pay with her life!"

Maisie desperately tugged on his sleeve.

"Mason, please, enough! Stella is missing, don't you think Alaric and Ivy are just as sick with worry? Blaming Ivy doesn't fix anything!"

Mason slumped back, a sharp pain radiating through his chest.

"That's Sebastian's child! You all know what she means to me. Now she's missing, maybe dead—how am I supposed to stay calm?!"

The moment he heard she fell in the river, his heart stopped.

He had his men comb every inch of that water, yet they found absolutely nothing.

Maybe Alaric was right. Maybe she wasn't in the water at all.

But his preliminary background check on Sylvia hadn't flagged anything suspicious.

A child vanishing into thin air wasn't something Sylvia could pull off alone.

Mason buried his face in his hands, trembling with dread over the little girl's fate.

Listening to his raw grief, a heavy realization settled over Maisie.

Her brother was still deeply tethered to Sebastian's memory.

He clearly intended to raise Sebastian's daughter as his own flesh and blood.

Did that mean their plans to conceive a Miller family heir together were off?

Maisie remembered Gideon was still sitting right there, his eyes practically glued to her.