Divorced the Cheat Married the Fleet (Camilla and Lance) novel Chapter 471

"Dad, Tessa is in shock. Just give her a minute to calm down," Oscar pleaded, glancing anxiously at the operating room doors and then back at Tessa, who was trembling so violently she could barely stand.

The old man was shaking with pure, unadulterated fury, hammering his cane into the linoleum floor with heavy, rhythmic thuds.

"She needs a minute to calm down? She's had the entire damn flight back to calm down!

Your son is bleeding out on that operating table! Lance went charging in blind to save her, and do either of you, his own parents, give a single damn about him?!" the old man roared.

If he had said something like that in the past, Tessa would have immediately snapped back and started a screaming match.

But this time, Tessa didn't react at all. She just kept sobbing, unable to catch her breath.

The old man's patience completely snapped. "Stop crying and tell us what the hell happened! We are all terrified out here!"

Camilla and Jeniffer were both suffocating with anxiety, but given that Tessa was an elder and clearly in the middle of a breakdown, neither of them felt it was their place to intervene.

Crushed under the old man's furious glare, Tessa finally choked out, "Dad... I was wrong. I was so wrong. I never should have trusted Sarah.

It's all my fault. I brought a monster into our home. I destroyed Lance."

She rambled on and on without giving a single shred of actual information. Jeniffer finally couldn't take it anymore and scoffed. "You're just figuring out your precious adopted daughter is a psycho? Do you have any idea how much hell Lance went through over the years because of her?"

Instead of lashing out at Jeniffer's sharp rebuke, Tessa just hung her head and muttered deliriously, "I don't know how this happened... Sarah was such a good girl when she was little. How did she turn into this?"

"Because she's been faking it since day one! You guys always played the sympathy card—she was an orphan, she needed a mother—and you showered her with everything while completely ignoring Lance.

You subconsciously believed everything she said, so anything Lance did was automatically a crime!

People don't just snap and turn into psychotic masterminds overnight. This is who she's been the whole damn time!" Jeniffer screamed, finally unloading years of pent-up rage onto Tessa.

Tessa didn't fight back. After seeing Sarah's absolute cruelty firsthand, she had nothing left to say in her defense.

The old man slammed his cane down again. "What's the point of bringing all this up now?! Just tell us exactly what happened out there!"

Tessa finally choked out, "It was Sarah. It was Sarah. She hates me. She was playing me this whole time.

On New Year's Eve, I felt so bad for her being alone, so I flew out to see her. She told me she wanted custom jewelry and begged me to take her to Silvania to pick out the raw stones.

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