Caught Him Cheating My Life Restarted (Natalie) novel Chapter 647

Elaine Ward’s hands trembled. She couldn’t bring herself to believe Marie wasn’t her daughter.

She couldn’t face it. Because if Marie wasn’t her daughter, then Natalie was. That would mean she had hurt Natalie far too deeply. It might even mean Marie was responsible for her son’s death.

Elaine couldn’t bear such a consequence. She said angrily, “Natalie, I won’t believe you. I don’t believe you! Marie is my daughter. She is my daughter!”

Seeing Elaine’s stubborn insistence, Marie breathed a sigh of relief. She didn’t realize Elaine was only saying this because she couldn’t face the truth.

Marie still thought she had her mother’s unconditional trust.

Just then, a staff member brought over a thousand copies of the stock inheritance agreement.

Marie quickly took the agreement, signed it, and handed it to her father, Richard.

She said, “Dad, hurry up and sign. I don’t want the Ward family’s fortune, but with things escalating like this and everyone watching, if you don’t sign this contract, people will question my identity. I’ll become the laughingstock of high society.”

Richard hesitated, his hand hovering, not taking the pen from her.

Marie urged him again, “Dad, please, just sign it.”

Even with Marie’s urging, Richard held the pen, motionless.

Everything that had just happened was too much for him to process.

Kate Verdan’s panicked and furious expression, as if terrified of a family tragedy, hadn’t seemed like an act at all. That raw pain had shaken him, forcing him to have doubts.

Could Kate Verdan have really switched them all those years ago?

But thinking about it now, was that when their child had already been swapped?

Richard’s expression grew darker and darker.

“Dad, what’s wrong?”

Richard didn't answer Marie. Another thought had struck him.

He suddenly remembered his son, Marcus Ward, saying he had something important to tell them but was afraid they couldn't handle it. He had said he’d tell them after he took care of something and brought someone back. When Richard had asked who he was looking for, Marcus wouldn’t say.

At the time, he’d assumed Marcus had broken up with a girlfriend who had run off with their child.

But now, he wondered… was *this* what Marcus had been talking about?