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.

what she had done wrong

It was too dramatic!

all a dream, hoping her life would be the

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 entire family suffers from diabetes,

was choking her, the suffocation climbing

difficulty. "I've been investigating this, and Chris and Lena have been helping me. Chris witnessed

paused. "You

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

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

up at him. "Then, my

to reply when screeching brakes sounded

Wilfred got out

the lobby. Instead, he hurried toward the top floor conference room

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