Falling for a Lie: My Stepbrother's Hidden Revenge

Chapter 78

“In Patric’s villa?”

Sarah’s sleepiness instantly evaporated as she sat bolt upright in bed.

“Spill it, how on earth is Hedda connected to him?”

“Don’t tell me you’ve forgotten? Since Sylvia divorced Edgar, she’s been as thick as thieves with Patric. Despite Edgar transferring the bay villa to her, she didn’t move in, and we’ve never been able to pin

down her actual address.”

“What are you implying?” Sarah scowled.

“Isn’t what I mean obvious enough?” Nancy rolled her eyes, “It means she’s likely shacked up with Patric! We’ve turned Frant City upside down looking for Hedda but to no avail, which makes me think that

Sylvia could’ve tucked him away in Patric’s villa!”

After mulling it over, Sarah conceded that Nancy’s theory held water and promptly dispatched someone to investigate.

After ending the call, Nancy tossed her phone aside in frustration, reclining against the headboard as she

awaited Sarah’s intel.

Hedda’s miraculous survival as a vegetative patient remained a thorn in her side.

No matter how much she strutted like a peacock in public, Hedda’s existence was a constant reminder of

her illegitimate birth.

Having become the Mellis Group’s heir apparent, she sought every chance to eliminate Hedda, but given her mother’s eagle–eyed vigilance, almost never leaving Hedda’s bedside, she struggled to find an opening.

But as long as Hedda clung to life, her claim to the Mellis Group throne would remain shaky.

It was inevitable that she’d be compared to her in the public eye.

Hedda’s disappearance presented a golden opportunity he had to seize the moment and knock off the two most troublesome obstacles!

The dawn gradually illuminated the sky, the morning sunlight softly kissed every nook and cranny, gently rousing the city from its slumber.

Nancy watched as the skies brightened outside her window, her anxiety escalating with each passing

second.

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phone frilled. Snatching it up, she quickly

certain that Hedda is in Patric’s villa, but our guys have reported that the villa’s security has nearly

No matter how much clout the Mellis Group or the Grammer family wield, we can’t afford to get on Patric’s bad side,

Nancy deflated.

end, totally stumped about

my own plans. You don’t have

hung up before Nancy could respond, hurling her phone

had always given her the cold shoulder, but suddenly, he started treating Sylvia with kid gloves, which

and Hedda potentially being in his villa, she was so

angrier she got. She made up her mind to do some snooping

and shine, get up

yanked Elon out of dreamland.

by Patric’s villa this morning, get everything arranged pronto. If anything goes off the

the sleep from his eyes, was champing at the bit to argue that he was just a bodyguard, that these chores should be handled by an assistant, but eventually he gave in with a grunt of

“Yes.”

finishing the task assigned to him by Nancy, Tim hopped on the red–eye flight back to Frant City from Wind

scent, he decided to swing by his own apartment, freshen up

hit the office to clock

in. Before he could button up the

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turned and saw it was Edgar.

face was as dark as thunder.

over Tim, but he tried his best

poker face.

residence was arranged by Edgar, so

need to see me?”

just given me a bell if you needed anything, there was no need to come down here. It’s still early,

you been?”

He snuffed out his cigarette in the ashtray with his slender

replied, “Well, I don’t think I should be cooped up in the office all the time. I’ve been itching to stretch my legs a bit more, but never seem to find the time. Didn’t want it to mess with my

“Is that so?”

his long legs, crossing one over the other, his fingers

make

I’m just hitting the pavement for a bit of morning exercise. Don’t read too much

of fatigue crossing his face. “Do you think I’m clueless about

“I don’t know what

been removed. You used my name for it. And last night,

chatter, his eagle–eyed gaze focused