Harrison's head shot up, and he stared at Natalie. He looked as if he was about to pop a vein, and his eyes were wide and bloodshot from agitation.

“What else did that b*tch do?” he hissed, his voice full of rage.

Natalie pulled over a stool and sat down. “Well, I'm sure you know about Jasmine! She is your own daughter, after all... Except, wait, sorry, she's not! Surprise!”

With that, Harrison spat out a thick spray of blood across his sheets and collapsed onto the bed.

Natalie jumped at the sight and quickly raised her hand to call for a doctor.

However, Harrison quickly pulled at her wrist to stop her as he croaked, “D-did you just say that Jasmine isn't my daughter?”

Natalie looked down and responded, “You'd better calm down. I'll get a doctor to check on you first before saying anything else.”

“No! You're going to tell me exactly what's going on right now!” Harrison barked.

under his death grip, but she didn't pull away. She just stared at him calmly. “She's not your daughter. She's also Warren's child, not yours. She's a

didn't seem as agitated as before at this

blankly. It was as if he had aged ten years in the blink of an eye. After a long time, he finally croaked again, “You're not lying to me,

would I lie to a dying man?” Natalie

worn-out eyes and

Susan at the television station and heard them talking about Jasmine being their daughter. At the time, I thought they were just kidding, but

knew there was

finished her sentence, Harrison suddenly started laughing, his chuckles full of self-deprecation. “This is hilarious. Hilarious! I never thought that I would have fallen for something like this and

hadn't actually loved Jasmine in the beginning. After all, she was an only child, and she was a girl. A patriarchist like himself never took her seriously, even though back

Jasmine had. Natalie had also never ever sucked up to her dad or acted coquettishly like Jasmine had. Jared, on the other hand, had been sickly from a young age and was always going in and out of the hospital. Naturally, Harrison distanced himself even

Natalie and Jared, who were both

now, that is, when he finally found out that

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