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.

wrong

It was too dramatic!

consider it all a dream, hoping her life

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

dizzy as if someone was choking her, the

been investigating this, and Chris and Lena have been helping me. Chris witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together with Cindy at the rehab center. If they weren't a family, why would Jodie do

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

the past—the hardships she had endured from childhood and the injustices she had faced—she suddenly didn't know what

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

at him. "Then,

when screeching brakes sounded from the hotel

car stopped, and Wilfred got out

the lobby. Instead, he

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