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.

done wrong to face this upheaval in her

It was too dramatic!

could consider it all a dream, hoping her life would be the same as before when she

to 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 your

dizzy as if someone was choking her, the suffocation climbing

helping me. Chris witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together with Cindy at the rehab center. If they weren't a family, why would Jodie

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

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

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

at him.

reply when screeching

stopped, and Wilfred got

in the lobby. Instead,

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