The Mocked Miss’s Hidden Crowns novel Chapter 1183

“Yes.”

Marcia nodded, then paused as a new thought surfaced. She glanced up at Aloys, her brows knitting together. “Grandpa just fainted from the shock. He’ll wake up soon. Should we tell him about the bracelet?”

Aloys turned to her, but the movement made him wince. His face went pale as the pain flared in his wound. “Are you sure that, if Allanson finds out about Charlotte and Mrs. W, he won’t treat Charlotte differently?”

“Treat her differently?”

Marcia blinked, caught off guard. “Grandpa’s spent forty years hung up on Mrs. W. He searched everywhere for her, only to find out she married someone else. He’s never really accepted it.”

So why would he do Charlotte any favors?

Aloys let out a bitter laugh, eyes drifting to the window. “Do you know why your grandfather dotes on Franco but barely acknowledges me?”

Marcia shook her head. She only knew that her dad and Franco were half-brothers. Franco’s mom was Allanson’s official wife. Her own grandmother… well, she never managed to marry into the Hawk family, no matter how hard she tried.

“It’s because…” Aloys’s gaze turned cold, a twisted smile appearing. “Franco’s mom looked a lot like Mrs. W.”

What?

Marcia’s mind went blank for a second. So Grandpa married Franco’s mother just because she looked like Mrs. W?

“And the girl Grandpa forced Franco to marry twenty years ago? She looked a little like Mrs. W, too.”

Marcia just stood there, stunned, her thoughts swirling. No wonder Allanson had acted so strangely around Charlotte the first time they met. She’d thought it was just the family connection. She never imagined it was because Charlotte looked so much like Mrs. W.

Now that Allanson knew Charlotte was actually Mrs. W’s granddaughter, what would he do?

She couldn’t even guess.

Olivia sent back a wry laugh. No one on earth wants her dead more than I do. Just do what I say and the bracelet will be yours.

Go on, Marcia typed, her nerves settling a bit. This might actually be easier than she thought, especially if it kept the bracelet out of Charlotte’s hands.

She’d always assumed Charlotte didn’t care about the Churchill family and wouldn’t be a threat. But now, Charlotte wasn’t just the Hawk family’s heir. She was also Mrs. W’s granddaughter.

Suddenly, Marcia was terrified Allanson would just hand everything over to Charlotte.

So Charlotte had to go.

We’ll follow your instructions, she sent. The Hawk family’s hacker team will cover you from the back end, help keep Charlotte from breaking through. Remember, you’ve only got two days.

The location scrambler was their hacker group’s prized invention and could block ninety percent of all tracking attempts.