Hearing what Elliot had said with fury, Selena was dumbstruck.
She stared at her foster mother unbelievably, and could hardly speak with her lips quivering. The shocked look of Selena rendered Elliot angrier.
She knew long before that Selena had some romantic illusion towards her brother.
At that time, she merely warned her by implication, hoping Selena could behave herself. But now Selena dared seduced her own brother and even had a baby. Elliot felt a surge of outrage inwardly.
"You are not qualified as my daughter. Don't you feel the least shameful by seducing your own brother? Selena, Have the Holland family owed you anything, making you treat your brother like this? I wondered then why were you insisting to get the child born, and I didn't expect that you were targeting your brother...."
Elliot's rage intensified while she was speaking, her eyes full of disappointment.
She got really disappointed in her foster daughter. Though she hadn't committed her heart and soul to looking after her as she did to Jasper, she gave maternal love to her literally. Now Selena betrayed her by what she had done.
"Get out. Leave the Holland family forever when Daniel's surgery finished. I don't want a daughter like you and don't stay with your brother or meet him anymore. If you dare come up with any improper thoughts towards him again, listen, I don't mind forcing you out of this country!"
Selena cried, lying prostrate on the ground.
"Mom, this is not the case, and you have got me wrong. My brother knows nothing, and even now, he still regards the child as his nephew ... I didn't seduce my brother, I really didn't seduce him ... I will leave him as soon as Dan gets his surgery done, and the child was indeed an accident...."
Selena was miserable. She didn't expect that the fact she had been afraid of for such a long time would get exposed now.
As she expected, her foster mother was quite annoyed and disappointed in her as well.
"How shameless you are to call it an accident. What kind of accident could lead you to carry your brother's child? Well, you explain it to me now!"
Elliot didn't trust her foster daughter at all, and she had known how she felt towards her brother long before.
Now she couldn't believe even one word of what Selena had said.
"Mom, it was an accident literally. Do you remember the birthday party of Mr. Murphy last year? On that night, everyone thought Jennifer went into my brother's room, and you even forced my brother to marry her later. Do you remember this?"
Elliot tried to recall and asked Selena with a frown.
"What has Jennifer to do with it?"
Selena let out a bitter smile, the look on her face turning extremely miserable.
"On the night before, I was drugged by an old foe, Emma Lane's brother Eden. He had made some mistakes before and I gave him a lesson when I worked in the police station. He hated me for that and even took nude pictures of me. At last, he wanted to insult me and my brother, cooking up a scandal about my brother and me. He bought off someone to work for him on the banquet, making me faint and drugging my brother, and then they put my brother and me in the same room. I was in a coma while my brother was drugged, the accident happened that way ... After that, I woke up first when my brother was still unconscious. Then I ran away because I didn't want my brother to know what had happened. Some time later, Jennifer knew it somehow, and she went to my brother's room intentionally, leading to your misunderstanding."
Selena finished in tears with pleading in her eyes. After all, Elliot was her foster mother, so she didn't want to let Elliot down.
"It's all one side of the story. Can you prove it?"
Elliot asked with a snort.
"Mother, Jason saw it then and helped me out, or I wouldn't have escaped abroad so easily one year ago. If I really intended to frame my brother up or seduced him, that day I would tell him the truth and let him know I am not his sister biologically. However, I know I shouldn't do that. Mom, please believe me this time. If it's not for Dan got sick and had to find blood relatives to speed up the match of bone marrow, I would not come back to bother you ... I had no choice. Dan is my only son and I couldn't bear his suffering due to the disease. I just want Dan to live on...."
Selena blubbered on her knees, her shoulders shaking violently.
Elliot didn't want to believe the girl she brought up would do such a thing either, so she asked Selena, "I give you a chance to call Jason right now since you said he knew the truth."
Selena knew it's the only chance, so she grabbed her cellphone from her pocket in a fluster.
Almost without a hint of hesitation, Selena called Jason immediately.
She worried that if she could make clear what happened then Elliot would suspend the surgery as well as the marrow donation. Though Dan was Elliot's grandson, Elliot's doubt and aversion to her rendered her frightened.
She dared not gamble and had to eliminate Elliot's hatred against her.
After ringing up, Selena switched to speakerphone mode.
Elliot was sitting aside, looking at Selena drily. This was the last chance she gave to Selena.
"Hello. Who's that speaking?"
It's not Jason answering the phone, and a woman's voice sounded. Elliot glanced at Selena with a cold look. Selena grew pale on her face and asked hurriedly.
"I'm Selena. Isn't it Jason's phone number? Is he there? I would like to let him answer the phone."
"Did you say you were Selena?"
The woman on the phone raised her tone abruptly, and Selena replied puzzledly.
"Yes, I'm Selena. Miss, could you please put Jason on the phone? I have something important to talk to him."
"He is busy now. I can pass your question to him and answer you directly."
"May I ask who's that please?"
Elliot couldn't trust the woman. This matter was so crucial that she merely wanted Jason to answer the phone by himself.
She was aware that Jason had always been flirty, so maybe some girl happened to take his phone.
"I'm Miranda, Jason's fiancee. I can answer whatever relates to him on his behalf. Do you think I am ineligible?"
Perceiving the hostility in her voice at once, Selena hurried to apologize.
"Sorry, I got you wrong. I thought ...."
Selena didn't finish. After all, she's Jason's fiancee, so she couldn't slip out her speculation, which would be too unrespectful.
Miranda sniffed on the other end.
"Go ahead. You can tell me your question to Jason, and I will ask him for you later."
Miranda knew it well that Selena grew up with Jason. She heard that the two families almost got them engaged last year. She had little vigilance against other women around him, and she took them so lightly that she simply asked someone to deal with them.
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