“Just tell me already!” replied Gerald as he pushed her hands away.
Wiping her tears away, Alice then began by explaining, “…It… all began on the night when we were at the seaside hotel…”
After listening to her explanation for a bit, Gerald began seeing the bigger picture. Essentially, Alice had drugged him that night with the intent of sleeping with him to hopefully get pregnant. Her thought process at the time was that if she managed to conceive his baby, then she would definitely be able to be part of a wealthy and prestigious family.
Alas, her period came ahead of time so her plans instantly crumbled! At the time, Alice was so angry with herself that she badly wanted to slap herself senseless!
However, she did smear the bedsheets with some blood, under the guise of it being the result of her losing her virginity to him.
With that in mind, it was already clear that she had lied to Gerald about Mable being his biological child.
Regardless, Alice had been filled with resentment and anger the moment Gerald had told her that he needed to rush off to meet Mila back then. As if to add insult to injury, Gerald even gave her twelve million dollars and told her to live elsewhere before running off!
‘I love you so much… How could you treat me like this…?’
Deeply saddened by all this, she decided to make a mountain out of a molehill. She would look for the Crawford family’s island—which belonged to Gerald’s sister—and take things into her own hands!
Though she immediately bought herself a ship that morning to locate said island, she simply couldn’t find it no matter how hard she tried!
Soon enough, night came. Feeling the ocean breeze blow against her face as she looked out at the vast ocean, Alice was just about to return in disappointment when she came across an odd fleet of ships.
Deciding to ask them about the island before giving up for the night, Alice was delighted when the people aboard one of the ships promised that they would bring her to Jessica’s island.
To her eventual dismay, she soon found that she had been lied to when they brought her to an unfamiliar coast, where the Minshall family resided.
The young master of that family went by IssacMinshall, and he had been charmed the moment he saw her while they were still out at sea, prompting him to lie to her so that she would be his.
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