Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee by KIKI

Chapter 633: Uncle's Status Drops to Third

An hour later, Stephanie finally woke up, her face deathly pale and her voice weak and breathless. She had never felt so terrible in her life. It was like she was dying! What Grace had given her turned out to be a bottle of sleeping pills-she had thought they were vitamins. Had she known, she wouldn't have taken any!

"Stephanie, you're awake," Marie said with relief as she saw Stephanie come around, feeling as if a great weight had been lifted from her heart. To emphasize her frailty, Stephanie intentionally coughed twice, almost causing her stomach to cramp up from the effort.

"Aunt Marie, what happened to me?" Stephanie asked, her eyes brimming with tears-not from pretense, but from genuine pain.

Marie sat beside her on the hospital bed, wiping her tears away, "You silly child, dare you ask what happened? You almost never got to see me again."

Stephanie feigned surprise, lifting her wrist and a look of realization crossing her face, "I... I'm sorry, Aunt Marie. I wasn't thinking straight."

"You really are..." Marie grasped Stephanie's hand, her heart full of words she couldn't express.

Meanwhile, Jared sat on a sofa with a grim expression, his dark eyes like storm clouds without an end in sight. Tina, on the other hand, looked amused. Such potential, truly. It seemed Stephanie wasn't far behind Grace in her antics. If she were properly groomed within the company, she might even surpass Juliet.

Juliet: Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Tina, supporting her chin with one hand, was already plotting eagerly.

After a few words with Stephanie, Marie looked up at Jared, "Jared, you take Sophia back. Everything's settled here; I'll stay."

Stephanie slowly sat up, her eyes filled with guilt as she looked at Jared and then at Tina, "Jared... Tina."

Tina stood up, looping her arm through Jared's, and smiled warmly at Stephanie, "Long time no see." The warmth was such that even Tina herself would have been surprised by it. She really wanted to make money. Money was her lifeblood, Uncle was just a bonus!

Now I rank lower not only than strawberry cake but also

right, there's the strawberry cake. You're only third place now, a mere

Jared: No way!!

bed, then knelt on the floor with a thud. "Tina, I was wrong about

her intention to be so dramatic; she

bit of realism, and she had

came forward to

out loud, but her excellent

the entire hospital room was silent, filled with an

timidly and pitifully at Tina. "Tina,

back at Stephanie, mimicking her tone, "What are

his lips, and gently stroked Tina's hair, "Yeah,

is good. Forgiving you means you are sincerely remorseful, and not forgiving you is also understandable. Who asked you to go so far? Kneeling and bowing like this, making it hard for people not to forgive you,

just in

get up, what's the need for kneeling and

Stephanie screamed internally, though

Aunt Marie, I didn't want Tina to misunderstand me." Stephanie got up from the ground, not sure if it was intentional, but as she did, she felt

of the bed, one hand covering her

came over to help

to recover?" Stephanie persisted, gripping Marie's hand tightly,

delicate flower that falls at the

gently, "With today's technology, what can't be healed?

standard comforting