Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 1322

"That's impossible. This video has to be a fake!" Sabrina Ward's shrill voice suddenly echoed through the house, drawing everyone's attention.

There was no way the footage was real. Debbie Harris was supposed to be resting safely in a hotel room. How could her hand have been brutally severed?

If anything had happened to Debbie, or if she had been taken by someone else, Bella Ward definitely would have told her.

The past few days had been perfectly quiet. There was no reason for something this bizarre to surface out of nowhere.

With Sabrina's sudden outburst breaking the silence, the family all turned to look at her.

Martin Mercer stared at his wife. "How do you know it's fake?"

Sabrina's lips parted, but she struggled to find the right words. It wasn't something she could easily explain.

"I just... how could something like this be real? She's Debbie Harris. She's Sebastian Blake's biological mother, and she was Old Mr. Blake's woman."

Brandon Mercer scoffed, clearly irritated by the claim.

"What do you mean, the old man's woman? Do you really think Old Mr. Blake acknowledges a woman like her?

She's a worthless piece of trash who used underhanded tricks to crawl into his bed back in the day. It's obvious he loathes her now.

There's zero chance he'd ever give her any official status.

But setting that aside, this video doesn't look fake at all. Dad, where did you even get this?"

Martin frowned, temporarily ignoring his son's question about Sabrina's certainty. "A friend of mine who's traveling abroad sent it to me.

It doesn't look doctored. My friend's company deals with digital media and video production.

If it were a fake, he wouldn't have bothered forwarding it."

During the disastrous, canceled wedding between the Mercer and Blake families, plenty of people had seen Debbie. Those seated near the main stage had gotten a very clear look at her.

Colin Mercer chimed in. "Whoever did this is ruthless. Even if she crossed the wrong people, wasn't there another way to handle it? Severing a hand is way too bloody and extreme."

As the three men discussed the gruesome details, Sabrina couldn't stop her body from trembling.

She couldn't process a single word they were saying. Her mind was entirely consumed by one terrifying question: Where exactly was Debbie Harris?

If she was still in Bella's custody... could Bella have...?

No, no, that's impossible...

Sabrina chanted the denial frantically in her head.

Her precious daughter was kind and gentle. She would never do something so monstrous. It was absolutely out of the question.

Despite Bella's strong-willed facade, Sabrina knew she was terrified of blood.