Chapter 708 The Buried Truth
Mason looked at herand felt the ache of it move through him.
“Ethan’s injuries are minor. Some burns on his arm. He came around before you did.
“As for Hannah…”
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The name landed with weight. “Faye knocked her out with the sedative before she could get out of the building. The fire got to her before anyone could reach her. The doctors say she has severe burns across most of her body and a serious infection has already set in. She doesn’t have much time left.”
Amelia felt her chest drop despite herself.
She had no sympathy left for Hannah, not after everything. But hearing the end of her story still produced something, a hollow, complicated kind of grief for a life so twisted by jealousy and bitterness that it had consumed itself.
A person warped by those things from the very beginning, ending like this. It was its own kind of reckoning.
“Before she lost consciousness, she gave a statement to the police,” Mason continued. “She told them Faye was the one who put her up to setting the fire with you inside. She probably never understood, even at the very end, that Faye never intended for her to walk out either. Faye wanted to remove both of you in a single move. The real heir and the imposter, cleaned up together.”
Amelia had felt it from the first moment she laid eyes on Faye, that indescribable quality of wrongness, the low-grade instinctive resistance she hadn’t been able to name.
But she had never imagined that something this vicious was sitting underneath that composed, maternal face.
“Why?” The word came out full of genuine confusion. “Why did she go this far? Because she had feelings for Lenny, and Lenny only ever loved Demi?”
Mason looked at her, visibly surprised that she’d already worked out that much, and then gave a heavy nod.
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“After the police brought Faye in, she didn’t hide any of it.
“She said she’d spent almost her entire life living in Demi’s shadow. From the time they were children. whatever it was, she was always the backdrop. Always picking up what Demi left behind.
“She actually met Lenny before Demi did. But Lenny met Demi once, fell for her immediately, and never looked at anyone else again.
“That was where it started. The jealousy took root. Then the Jewell family pushed hard to keep Lenny and Demi apart, and Demi left for Premond. Faye assumed that was the end of it.
“Then Lenny consolidated his control of the family, and the first thing he did was fly to Premond and find her. They picked up where they left off. They got married, over every objection anyone raised.
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“And then Demi ga pregnant. So after the birth, Faye bribed the fending medical staff and took you while Dem was still unconscious and recovering, When Demi woke up. Faye told her the baby had bee Milon. That the medications Demi had been taking throughout the pregnancy had caused the child to
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His your dropped further. “She made sure Demi spent the rest of her life believing she had killed her own child. That quik, on top of everything else Faye had done to her, eventually broke her completely
A heavy silence settled over the room afterward, and for a long moment afterward neither of them spoke. Every detail that had been sealed away for more than twenty years had just come into the light, and the weight of it pressed down on the room like something physical
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