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.

understand what she had done wrong to face this

It was too dramatic!

hoping her life would be the same as before when she woke

lips, inching closer. "Think about it calmly. If you were Cindy's daughter, why is it that

as if someone was choking her, the suffocation climbing from

"I've 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

your DNA..." He paused. "You

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

sense that Wilfred feels differently about you, but it's not a romantic feeling... He doesn't know this yet, but

up at

reply when screeching

luxury car stopped, and Wilfred got out of it in

lobby. Instead, he hurried toward the top floor conference

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