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!

rank lower not only

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

Jared: No way!!

a thud. "Tina, I was wrong about before, please forgive me. I was misled by Grace and Grandma, I didn't expect things to turn out this way. It was all my fault, please don't be angry anymore. I

knelt on the floor, her head hitting the ground hard. It wasn't her intention to be so dramatic; she thought that being sick, Jared, if not Sophia, would stop her, or at least

of realism, and she had used

one came

almost laughed out loud, but

room was silent, filled with an

and pitifully at Tina. "Tina, would you forgive

smiled back at Stephanie, mimicking her tone, "What are you doing? I have never blamed

expression, curved his lips, and gently stroked Tina's hair, "Yeah, our Tina is the most forgiving, truly

your fault to begin with. Knowing your mistake and making amends is good. Forgiving you means you are sincerely remorseful, and not forgiving you

by a child just in

up, what's the need for kneeling and

was all for an apology! Stephanie screamed internally, though reluctantly,

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 a pain in

of the bed, one hand covering

over to help

able to recover?" Stephanie persisted,

that falls at the slightest

be healed? Just keep a calm mind, and

standard comforting