Ceres was huddled in the darkest corner of the dimly lit cabin, so Caleb did not see her face.
Caleb asked with a flicker of confusion, "What's wrong?"
Roy shook his head and said, "It's nothing! They look so much alike that I can't help regarding them as twins. Why does Miss Jamie hate her so much? Don't you think it's too much to disfigure the miserable woman?"
Hearing that, Caleb sighed and said, "She deserved it! Jamie only gave her a taste of her own medicine. Or Jamie would have been disfigured by that evil girl."
Roy nodded and did not refute it.
"It's normal for you to think they look alike. The two girls are sisters, after all!" Caleb added.
Roy was about to speak but said nothing.
"Keep an eye on that woman, too. Jamie promised me that she would release the girl after reaching Country M, but I'm afraid she might break her word," Caleb ordered.
"Yes, Sir!" Roy answered.
After coming out of Caleb's room, Roy suddenly thought of the woman's torn clothes, so he borrowed a dress from a maid on the ship.
When Roy opened the door, Ceres raised her head vigilantly and wrapped herself tightly with a towel.
Noticing Ceres was scared, Roy coughed lightly and said, "Don't be afraid! I'm here to give you a clean dress to change."
Roy then put the dress on the bed and said, "A maid lent it to me. I hope it'll fit you."
Ceres snorted and asked, "What a brilliant trick! Are you trying to buy me off?"
After listening to Ceres's words, Roy looked up at Ceres and said, "I think you have misunderstood me. Mr. Caleb did not know Miss Jamie had kidnapped you. But he knows it now, and he ordered Miss Jamie to release you immediately when we get off the ship."
"Mr. Caleb? Miss Jamie? I don't know who you meant. I heard Mary calling that man 'Daddy,'" Ceres asked.
Ceres had yet to figure out what was going on.
"Mary? Do you mean Jamie Bullock? She is the daughter of Mr. Caleb," Roy said.
"How could it be possible?" Ceres asked.
"Yes, it is. The DNA paternity test confirmed her identity," Roy said.
Ceres thought, 'If that is the case, my mother must have slept with Caleb after marrying Mike. She even lied to Mike, who believed Mary was his daughter.
How could my mother do such a filthy thing!'
With a blush, Ceres could only feel extremely ashamed of her mother!
"Mr. Caleb is not a decent man, either. How shameless he is to have seduced somebody else's wife and left his child to others to raise," Ceres said.
Roy didn't want to refute that, but he could notice a hint of stubbornness in Ceres's eyes.
That stubbornness could be found in Caleb's eyes, too.
"I don't want to argue with you. Wear it if you want. Throw it if you don't!" Roy said. After that, he walked out of the room.
At midnight, Jamie quietly got up and went to Ceres's room.
Jamie couldn't let go of such a rare opportunity to torture Ceres.
Jamie wanted Ceres to experience every pain she had suffered before.
Jamie tiptoed to Ceres's room. Just as she was about to open the door, somebody called her name.
"Miss Jamie! What can I do for you?" Roy asked.
It was Roy who waited at the door.
Jamie immediately withdrew her hand and stood in front of the door awkwardly. "I'm fine! I can't fall asleep, so I came out for a walk," Jamie answered.
Ceres doubted it.
'Jamie made a great effort to catch me. Why would she release me so easily?
Will there be a trap for me?' Ceres wondered.
"Do you want to know the reason?" Jamie asked. She then took out a mirror from her bag and put it in front of Ceres's face.
When Ceres saw her face in the mirror, she quickly snatched the mirror over.
"What happened to my face?" Ceres cried.
Jamie laughed out loud.
Ceres looked at herself in the mirror in disbelief. The bathroom in the room she lived on the ship was nearly empty of furniture with no mirror. Therefore, she had no idea about her appearance for the past two days. Neither did she know the red spots reappeared on her face!
Ceres had no idea why those red spots reappeared. What was worse, the color grew deeper.
"You liar! How dare you deceive me!" Jamie said with a sneer. "I only found out the truth after the investigation. There is a chemical that makes people grow red spots on their skin. There is also another chemical that can neutralize it and make those red spots disappear. That is how you deceive me!" Jamie yelled.
Ceres didn't refute it since she had fooled everyone with that chemical method.
"This is the price you have to pay for fooling me! The doses of shots I gave you this time got injected directly into the surface layer of your skin. Besides, I also added other substances to it. Even with a neutralizer, they won't disappear. And those marks will be left on your skin forever!
"Ceres, you have to spend the rest of your life with them!" Jamie added.
With a proud smile on her face, Jamie asked, "I wonder how much Johny loves you. Will he accept you with this ugly face?"
Ceres got lost in thought.
"As for me, I will be the eldest daughter of the Bullock family. In the future, I will be the heir to the Bullock Group. Every dog has its day! Keep the mirror!" Jamie said.
After finishing those words, Jamie left.
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