Nathan's face sank. "I'm sorry."
Ava had to stay in the hospital for observation, and Nathan needed to work. He went home to pick up his laptop before heading back to the hospital to accompany her.
When no one was around, Ava sent a text to an unknown number. [Chloe has discovered my identity. What should I do?]
The reply came swiftly. [What do Nathan and the others think?]
Ava replied, [Everyone else believes me.]
The response came, [Then there's no need to panic.]
*
Joseph arrived home in the early hours of the morning. He had matters to handle at the Whitman Group, so he went to Docwood after leaving the hospital. After resting briefly in the living room, he headed to the office for a meeting just as the sky began to brighten.
After the meeting, Lucas brought breakfast and placed it on the coffee table. "Sir, please eat.”
There were two black circles around Joseph's eyes, and he sounded weary as he said, "I'm fine. Has Chloe contacted me?"
Lucas took out his phone and checked if there were any unread messages. However, there were none. He shook his head slowly. "No..."
Joseph gazed at the ceiling above and said, "Yesterday, she insisted that Nathan's fiancee is Ava, her half-sister."
"What? That's impossible! They look nothing alike," Lucas said.
He had met Amelia and could not find any resemblance between her and Ava.
*
After returning from the hospital, Chloe became extremely obedient. She no longer sarcastically confronted Joseph and behaved like an emotionless doll. He thought she had realized her mistakes and regretted her impulsive actions, so he planned to take her out to brighten her mood.
But as Christmas approached, his work piled up. Numerous tasks from Docwood and Aesper that required his attention came knocking. He was so busy that he had to put the matter regarding Amelia to the back of his mind.
On Christmas Day, Chloe found herself alone at the dining table, surrounded by a feast of dishes. As she looked at the empty chairs around her, a self-deprecating smile tugged at her lips.
Time flew by, and three months passed in the blink of an eye. Xavia was about to give birth, and Chloe was nine months along. The hospital determined Chloe’s due date to be on the tenth of the next month.
In recent days, Chloe pretended to follow the prescribed schedule for the herbal medicine. As soon as the maid left, she secretly poured the medicine into a flower pot. She did not dare to let her body recover fully, fearing that she might wake up one day to find herself on the operating table.
On this particular afternoon, she had arranged to meet with Emily at Joseph's house to share her plan with her. But before Emily arrived, chaos erupted outside the house. It was as if more than a hundred people had flooded in at once, chattering incessantly and creating a ruckus with their non-stop talking.
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