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!

lower not only than strawberry

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

Jared: No way!!

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 know I

so dramatic; she thought that being sick, Jared, if not Sophia, would stop her, or at least

realism, and she had

came

laughed out loud, but her

a moment, the entire hospital room was silent, filled with an awkward

head, looking timidly and pitifully at Tina. "Tina,

"What are you doing? I have never blamed

glanced at Tina, observing her barely contained expression, curved his lips, and gently stroked Tina's hair, "Yeah, our Tina

means you are sincerely remorseful, and not forgiving you is also understandable. Who asked you to go so far? Kneeling and bowing like this,

so harshly by a child just in elementary school, Stephanie naturally

up, what's the need for kneeling and bowing like

for an apology! Stephanie screamed internally, though reluctantly, she couldn't show

want Tina to misunderstand me." Stephanie got up from the ground, not sure if it

the edge of the bed, one hand covering her face, "Ah,

over

persisted, gripping Marie's hand

delicate flower that

"With today's technology, what can't be healed? Just keep a calm mind, and we'll take

standard comforting