Chapter 57:

“What sort of gossip?” queried someone, leaning in with keen interest.

Tessa smoothed back her hair, her smile broadening as she focused on a specific individual. “This piece of gossip involves… Mrs. Thomas.”

The statement shifted all attention to Mollie, seated prominently among them. Mollie’s demeanor didn’t waver. She casually raised her eyelids. “Oh? Something concerning me?”

Tessa nodded affirmatively. “Precisely.”

“It concerns you and Mr. Thomas’ goddaughter, Belinie.”

The room’s focus shifted to Tessa, everyone visibly eager to hear the impending revelation. After all, everyone here had only heard positive comments about Belinie

across her lips. “I spoke with Ryan Adams. His aunt’s husband, who happens to be the chief physician at the Cardiac Surgery Department at the Grand Plains General Hospital, told him…

the doctors—among the nurses, too. However, intriguingly, there is a caregiver with the surname Thomas at that hospital.

A caregiver? That simply can’t be

disbelief, though her

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especially given Mollie’s known fertility struggles. She herself had fertility struggles as well, but her husband despised her because of that. Seizing the opportunity to tarnish Mollie’s reputation, Tessa wasn’t about to let this chance slip

reaction to Tessa’s insinuations. With a feigned air of innocence,

small laugh, continuing, “Of course, I’m sure there’s no dishonesty from you or

She indeed joined the Cardiac Surgery Department at the

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