Lost and Found: Return of My Mysterious Fiancee by KIKI

Chapter 779: He’s Victor’s Brother

Ella Bailey turned her head, following Tina's motion.

On the surveillance screen, a room filled with sophisticated medical equipment came into view. A woman lay on the bed, her face deathly pale, her body devoid of vitality. Only the faint white mist on the light blue oxygen mask of the ventilato proved that she was still alive.

There was no sound in the footage, but Ella Bailey could almost hear the rhythmic beeping of the monitors in her ears.

She held her breath. Her heartbeat thudded violently, reverberating through her chest.

Even though she didn't understand medicine, she could tell that her mother's condition wasn't good.

The arms that had once held her so gently were now scarred, deep and shallow cuts crisscrossing her skin.

Some of the older wounds had healed, leaving white marks behind. The newer ones, grayish-brown scabs, threatened to shred Ella's fragile nerves.

"Mom..."

Her lips trembled, her teeth chattered, and the single word that escaped her throat came out broken and hoarse.

Tears began to fall, her sobs spreading like ripples through the quiet living room.

Tina watched silently. With a wave of her hand, Courtney and the others standing behind her led Elsa upstairs. At the top of the stairs, Elsa couldn't resist glancing back.

The Ella Bailey who had always flaunted her strength and pride now looked like a child who had lost her most treasured possession.

Her shoulders shook, her helplessness and despair stark and overwhelming.

mind-of herself standing amidst the blood of her parents after they jumped to their deaths, the world crumbling around her. Perhaps... perhaps she

short as Elsa

Tina picked up the laptop from the table and said calmly, "Over the years, you've helped Victor with so many things-all so

nodded. The once-proud and upright figure now slowly sank to the ground,

and raspy. "I thought... I thought that if I did everything perfectly, he'd tell me where my mom was. I never

urging

"Do you

know those people?"

invisibility. Ella Bailey, her tears nearly spent, wiped her

froze, and after a moment

Tina murmured, her thoughts

He's Victor's half-brother, Ozan Bailey.

"Mmm! Mmm!"

up like livestock by the Mountain Veil Order, squirmed on the ground, his hands and feet bound. Black tape sealed his mouth, but his wide, glaring eyes locked onto Ella Bailey, as if he had something urgent to say. Tina walked over and ripped the tape from his mouth. "What

promised me-he said if I watched over this Farrell woman for him,

glint of steel flashing in her eyes. "So it was you? You were the

Ozan Bailey instinctively shrank back, his small, beady eyes darting nervously. But then he puffed up his chest, glaring defiantly. "So what if I was? Listen here, you brat-if you don't release me right now, I'l tell my brother you betrayed the Bailey

you think I care about being

he is. No wonder

records for you? I promise, all 180 pages of the Bailey family history, and you won't find a single

Ozan Bailey's face turned red, his voice trembling. "He promised me! He promised me-how

out a small laugh. "Why not? Victor even deceived his first wife. A man who climbed to power by stepping on the very woman who helped him get there-do you really think he'd treat you, his rival for the family fortune, any better?" She toyed with a strand of her hair, her tone airy. "If I'm

time, walked over slowly. "How could he? That money was used long ago by Victor to dig up the

inheritance your grandfather left you to condemn