Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 490 The Trap

Damian explained everything, recounting how Jeffrey and Carl had been working in secret, investigating Alisa and trying to expose those supporting her.

They knew she was not acting alone and had planned to reveal the network behind her.

Apparently, Alisa had been trying to keep her pregnancy viable until six months, when medical

intervention could give her baby a chance.

She was just two weeks shy of that mark and had been staying secluded in her room.

However, Jeffrey made a cold decision. He added a miscarriage-inducing drug to her late-night snack, ensuring the child would not survive.

As harsh as it was, he could not allow a child from someone with such malicious intent to threaten the family in the future.

Alisa panicked when she realized she was losing the baby. Too afraid to alert anyone in the household, she secretly contacted her people to help her.

What she did not know was that Jeffrey had set a trap. Her attempts to fix the situation only led to the exposure of those aiding her.

The plan was flawless. I could not help but admire how well it was executed, though I regretted not witnessing it unfold myself.

"And the baby?" I asked, feeling a mix of emotions.

Damian shook his head. "It was too early-barely five and a half months. The baby didn't survive long enough to take its first breath."

Alisa had fought so hard to save that baby. Just half a month more, and it might have lived.

I remembered how she once told me it was a girl, and I could tell she had been sincere about her hope for her child.

why was she singled out as

when you were so anxious and barely sleeping, Mr. Carter took it upon himself to dig deeper,"

is it?" I

to a woman about five-foot-five

add up. If someone like Wisteria wanted you dead, she wouldn't be so obvious. Even her past actions

me in the back

pregnancy made me overlook a lot, but I always had this gut feeling something was not

divert attention to

so soon after we returned it couldn't have been her. She wouldn't have had time to get back here unless she snuck in, and even then, it would've taken weeks. "If she did return, it would've required a carefully planned identity change. However, Mr. Carter pieced together clues that pointed away from Wisteria. Whether she's alive or not, this case isn't her doing. Someone deliberately used her name

"I see," I muttered.

she used that knowledge to frame Wisteria. She staged everything-the murder scene, the severed head, the photos of my supposed death-all to break me mentally and use Wisteria's name

Carl kept me so well-protected. So she went after

was to make me

me. In the early stages of pregnancy, the development of

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miscarriages within the first three

certainly was not someone to

of her own miscarriage over the past couple of weeks and she did not have time to focus on me, she might have resorted

In that moment of miscarriage, she must have felt

her is vulnerable at

and said the baby must be doing well, there

her own child, yet she resented my

but Carter made sure that did not happen, letting her face the consequences of her

nodded. "Yes, lately, Alisa's been focused on protecting her pregnancy, so she hasn't

did you catch last