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.

she had done wrong to face this

It was too dramatic!

it all a dream, hoping her

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, except you? Are you lucky? No,

felt dizzy as if someone was choking her, the suffocation climbing from

Lena have been helping me. Chris witnessed Jodie visiting Owen together

He paused. "You and Cindy have no blood

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

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

at him.

when screeching brakes sounded from

stopped, and Wilfred got

Daniel and Maisie in the lobby. Instead, he hurried toward the

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