Chapter 86

Blossom was baffled, her brow furrowed in thought. “You passed out after work, and normally, if someone was to rescue you, they’d take you straight to the hospital, not drop you off in the middle of nowhere. But if you ran into some bad news, well, they didn’t hurt you or the babies. They just left you in the wilderness. It’s like they wanted you to fend for yourself, but that doesn’t quite add up either. If someone wanted to harm you, they wouldn’t bother letting you give birth, let alone perform a C–section and stitch you up afterward.”

It had slipped out during their daily walk that Elysia and the children lived in the woods. But Elysia had skirted around the details of her saviors and life in the wilds, mentioning only a quaint village at the foot of the mountains.

Elysia was just as puzzled, this enigma nagging at her.

The person who took her to the wilderness didn’t seem to want to harm her, but didn’t exactly seem to be helping her either. It was just… weird.

“Didn’t they leave any clues behind?” Blossom asked.

Elysia shook her head. “None.”

“And they never showed up again?”

“Not once.”

moment, then shrugged. “Oh well, why rack your brains over it? The truth will come out sooner or later.”

agreement. That was often how things went; you could think until your head hurt and get nowhere.

lightning

you

me and the kids. I want to hear about you and Winona these past years,”

it’s my mom

believe it? A woman of her intellect, turned matchmaker! She’s relentless! Between her and my aunt, it’s like they’re on a mission. I dread their visits. The second

“I can’t picture Hollis getting

hitched, but she’s aiming for blue blood! Like, seriously, why would any tycoon want to

me? They’d have to be

and she didn’t stop there.

at how slow I was, even cried over it. Kept wondering how two brainiacs like her and Dad could have produced such a dunce. She even toyed with the idea that I wasn’t theirs. If it weren’t for my striking resemblance to them, they might have dragged me to a paternity test by now. They used to lament about how two positives made a negative. If they weren’t

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