The Rose He Showed Off Is Putting Down Roots in a Garden of Her Own novel Chapter 304

"So we're really just going to sneak off with our tails between our legs?" Elena asked weakly.

"Who said anything about sneaking off?" Beatrice countered. "If the girl is a wealthy heiress, she must drive a nice car, right? Let's go down to the parking garage. We can easily figure out who she is by checking the license plates."

Elena pondered this for a moment. "But if she's really an heiress from a good family, why keep it such a massive secret?"

Beatrice thought about it and started listing possibilities. "Number one: She could be divorced with a kid."

"Don't give me a heart attack! Becoming a stepdad right out of the gate? Zion wouldn't be that blind!"

"I'm just saying it's a possibility."

"Absolutely impossible!"

Beatrice quickly pacified her. "Okay, okay! That's completely out of the question. My mistake. Then maybe she's divorced, but without kids."

"Can't you think of a single positive scenario?" Elena grumbled.

"If it were a perfect scenario, he wouldn't be hiding her like she's on the FBI's most wanted list," Beatrice pointed out reasonably.

"Give me another option," Elena demanded.

Beatrice stroked her chin. "Maybe she's from a rival family. That's how it always happens in those rich-people soap operas."

"You know perfectly well our family doesn't have mortal enemies."

In their elite social circle, the golden rule was to avoid making enemies and maintain a polite, civil facade at all costs.

"Divorced with kids, divorced without kids, blood feuds... If it's none of those, then the only option left is that she's a married woman."

Elena looked absolutely horrified at the thought. "Beatrice, stop analyzing! If she's not divorced, that means it's an affair! They'd be adulterers, morally bankrupt, absolute degenerates! Zion isn't that shameless!"

"Then there's only one possibility left," Beatrice said gravely. "She's physically disabled or chronically ill. Just like the one my family married."

Chronically ill?

Elena's mind immediately flashed to a prominent heiress who had been in a horrific car crash a couple of years ago. A wave of nausea hit her.

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