Chapter 88 Vincent Collapses
At those words, the servants all lowered their heads, trembling.
“What news? Let me see it.”
None of them dared refuse. One of them handed over their phone.
The more Vincent read, the more horrified he became.
He coughed, and blood sprayed across the screen. His eyes went wide.
Then he hit the ground.
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Azure General Hospital.
Stella, Frederick, and Elias rushed in.
“Kenneth, how is he?”
“No word yet. He’s still in surgery.”
Kenneth glanced toward the operating room doors, worry etched across his face, his voice tight.
“What happened?”
At that, Kenneth’s gaze locked onto Stella.
She looked confused.
“Ring…”
She glanced at her phone. “Excuse me for a second.”
She stepped away to answer. Tess‘ frantic voice came through, and Stella’s brow furrowed.
“Stella, someone’s putting out vicious rumors about Miss Shaw. They’ve also leaked your connection to her. It’s trending hard. They’re saying you’re a trafficker’s daughter, that you’re cold–blooded for sending your own father to death row.”
“Any idea who’s behind it?”
“Not yet.”
“Got it. Dig into it.”
“On it.”
Stella hung up and turned around to find the Shaw brothers both staring straight at her.
Chapter 85 Stella’s Painful Secret
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Dad was wrong, Nicole. Please come home.
As Stella walked through the gates of Shaw Estate, she turned away from the house, and finally let the tears fall.
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Chapter 88 Vincent Collapses
“Please… save him.”
The doctor paused, looking slightly stunned. “The mystery surgeon?”
“If it’s possible, I’d like to assist. I know your chief of surgery–we’ve worked together before.”
“That’s perfect. He’s actually leading the procedure himself.”
Stella drew a steadying breath and, without hesitating, followed the doctor to prep.
“Kenneth, that was too much.”
Frederick patted his brother’s shoulder gently.
Kenneth said nothing, just leaned against the wall.
Time crawled by.
t idle eith
‘d already texted Gideon to find out who was behind the leak.
Seeing An
“Elias,
“Am
his screen, he had a pretty good idea why she was calling.
with all this online drama? Is it true?”
he time.”
with Stella–you have to know. She’s Nicole’s daughter, isn’t she?”
cracked, her eyes welling up on the other end of the line.
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at Luna woman, the one those monsters tortured… that was Nicole.”
calm down.”
he went dead.
ly, Elias was the one who hung up on his sister. This was the first time she’d ever done it to him.
Shaw, the results are back.”
expedited DNA test.
Enneth grabbed the report eagerly–then stopped, unable to open it.
le closed his eyes, took a breath.
The moment he saw the numbers, the tears he’d been holding back broke free, tracing lines down his. devastatingly handsome face.
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“Kenneth.”
Frederick squeezed his shoulder.
“I just visited Aunt Nicole’s grave. It’s real. She’s… she’s really gone.”
Kenneth was quiet for a long moment. He stared at the operating room light, his voice eerily steady. “I need to step out. I should call Mom and Dad. They need to know about Grandfather–and everything else.”
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