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

It was too dramatic!

her life

accept it now, but it's the truth!" Daniel licked his lips, inching closer. "Think about it calmly. If you were Cindy's daughter, why is it that

choking her, the suffocation climbing from her

witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together with Cindy at the rehab center.

checked your DNA..." He paused. "You and

welled up in Maisie's eyes. Thinking about the past—the hardships she had endured from

idea," Daniel said softly. "I could sense that Wilfred feels differently about you, but it's not a romantic feeling... He doesn't

at him. "Then,

when screeching brakes sounded from the hotel

Wilfred got out of it

the lobby. Instead, he hurried toward the top

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