Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 904

With that, Bella grabbed her keys and stormed out of the house.

She didn't care that it was the middle of the night; she had to find Sebastian immediately.

Even though the insults they hurled at each other were vicious, Bella knew deep down that they were right. If even the Mercer men realized that Sebastian only valued powerful women, how could she, having been by his side for years, not know it too?

It was precisely because she knew him so well that panic set in.

She had originally counted on the Mercer men to step up and definitively brand Lillian as a fraud. She never expected Nathan to drop such overwhelming evidence that indisputably proved Lillian's identity.

As much as Bella refused to accept it, she knew it was the truth. She had scrutinized the evidence closer than anyone, and the deeper she looked, the more undeniable it became.

But the clearer the truth became, the harder it was to stay calm.

Behind the wheel, Bella drove straight toward the suburban villa where Sebastian often stayed. Even though the staff had repeatedly confirmed he hadn't returned, she had to see for herself. If he wasn't there, she would check the next place. She had to find him. Before leaving the house, she had already called every connection she had to track him down.

Meanwhile, at 4:00 AM, while countless people were too wired from the drama to sleep, a single light flicked on in the faculty housing at St. Kingsley University.

A middle-aged professor reached for his phone on the nightstand, grabbed his glasses, and sat up against the headboard. After scrolling through the latest news, he immediately got out of bed and headed into his home office.

Booting up his computer, the professor opened several documents and quickly logged into the university's official social media account.

Unless they were completely brain-dead, it meant they genuinely had no idea about her true identity or her academic records.

Once the internet connected the dots, the narrative shifted drastically.

Half of the internet began relentlessly mocking the Mercers for their sheer stupidity, pointing out how they eagerly tried to tear her down without even knowing the facts. The other half flooded their pages, demanding to know how a father and brother could be so entirely oblivious to her high school grades.

The Mercer Group's official pages were completely overrun. The comment sections were an absolute bloodbath.

[Tried to steal a chicken and ended up losing the rice. What a massive backfire. Hahaha... mercilessly mocking them.]