Maisie widened her eyes in disbelief, her mind going blank as she froze in place.

Daniel tried to hold her shoulders, but she recoiled as if electrified. She stumbled back, her eyes revealing a trace of fear.

"Maisie..."

"Is what you're saying true?" Maisie's voice quivered. "This... This is too sudden, I..."

Her words were incoherent. She didn't know how to express the emotions flooding her at that moment.

Panic? Confusion? Anger?

It seemed like all of them, yet also like none of them.

She couldn't comprehend how she suddenly transitioned from being Cindy's daughter to the Newhouse heiress. She couldn't understand why her parents had abandoned her in the first 20-some years of her life.

didn't understand what she had done wrong to face this upheaval in her

It was too dramatic!

all a dream, hoping her life would

calmly. If you were Cindy's daughter, why is it that your entire

if someone was choking her, the suffocation climbing

been helping me. Chris witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together with Cindy at the rehab center.

paused. "You and

welled up in Maisie's eyes. Thinking about the past—the hardships she had endured from childhood and the injustices she had faced—she suddenly

that Wilfred feels differently about you, but it's not a romantic feeling...

looked up at him. "Then, my

was about to reply when screeching brakes sounded from the

and Wilfred got out of

Daniel and Maisie in the lobby. Instead,

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