Faux Vows, True Desires

"Feeling okay?"

Two bodyguards asked Janice first.

Janice didn't answer them; she was busy coddling the doll in her arms.

Lucinda wasn't sure if this woman was her birth mother, but she had seen her twice in her dreams. Seeing her treat the doll like a child really tore at her heart, so she stepped forward and helped her up again. Janice, being held by Lucinda, looked up at her.

Lucinda looked back.

"Can you check if she's hurt?"

The two bodyguards didn't dare touch Janice, and she wouldn't let them either.

They felt like they recognized the young woman in front of them but couldn't put a finger on where they'd seen her before.

Only when they saw her fancy car did they realize that Janice was out of it. They had been following her and had seen her narrowly escape being hit by a car several times.

That softened their attitudes toward her.

"Baby."

Janice suddenly grabbed Lucinda's hand, holding it tightly, as if letting go meant Lucinda would fly away.

Stefan stayed silent.

Was this woman the one Lucy saw in her dreams?

Was she Lucy's birth mother?

Looking closer, they didn't look alike at all.

"Your hand is bleeding."

Janice was gripping Lucinda's hand so tightly that Lucinda finally noticed her skin was abraded and bleeding.

Lucinda immediately crouched down to check her legs.

Luckily, her legs were fine.

She had just scraped her hands when she fell.

"Ouch."

saw the blood

was there to prevent

"Janice."

were scared out of their wits. One of them said, "Janice is terrified of blood."

decision decisively, and Stefan helped her carry the unconscious Janice into

bodyguards didn't have a car, so they hailed a

family's house, waiting for a

informing him that his mother had left the hotel and almost got hit by a car. Although there

meeting Owen and rushed to the hospital

had already been treated. It had been

also woken up from her

as she woke up, she

handed her

"Baby, baby."

the pain in her hands, Janice clung to the doll, pressing her face against the doll's face, calling for

her like this, Lucinda was extremely distressed

her hand. Lucinda thought Janice had remembered her, but when she woke up, she was calling the

just seeing her like this

whispering comfortingly, "Let's wait for her son to come, then we can talk properly. Whether she's your mother or not, you should do a DNA test since

Lucinda nodded silently.

this woman really was her

saw that woman in her dreams, Lucinda felt her

life only

voice came from outside

to the hospital

very cautious, afraid to

had taken his mother on a

driver was able to brake in time; otherwise, the consequences

to let Ethan get to

"Mom."

gently picking up his mother's bandaged hand. He couldn't tell how serious the injury

said her injury was

"My dear, it hurts."

she looked very pitiful and

blew on her hand,

"Baby."

into her arms, then coaxed her to

Janice was probably exhausted.

was asleep, she occasionally