Mistaken Match: Marrying the Enigmatic CEO by Ruby Fennimore

Chapter 1898 The Verkade Scheme

Chapter 1898

“Claudette, what’s wrong? Please, say something!” Laura’s voice trembled

with desperation as she gripped Claudette’s hand tightly, but her daughter

remained as still and unresponsive as a porcelain doll.

“Manuel, what happened to my sister?” Elizabeth asked anxiously.

“She was brainwashed and deeply hypnotized,” Emmanuel explained gravely.

“I killed the person who had control over her, but now she’s like a robot.”

The revelation hit like a thunderbolt. Laura and Elizabeth broke down in tears,

their sobs echoing through the room. Even Felicity, who had been trying to

hold herself together, couldn’t contain her grief. As she wept, a bittersweet

thought crossed her mind–if only Sarah could have been as fortunate as

Claudette, alive even if not fully herself. Just to see Sarah again would have

been enough to soothe her aching heart.

Suddenly, a booming voice shattered the somber mood. “Hey, why are you all

crying? It’s not like Claudette can’t wake up!” Quintus barged into the room,

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his usual bravado on full display.

Elizabeth, momentarily distracted from her sorrow, looked up at her brother

with surprise. “Quintus, you’re still alive?”

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Quintus

sister alive, but you laugh when you see your brother?

clown or something?”

Emmanuel

for the first time, had such a

assured them. “I’ve already sent

medical books. I’ll

return to normal. As for whether

that’s

a whirlwind of emotions playing across her face.

vibrant daughter, now so changed, a secret

and Mackenzie expecting a child, it would be

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1898 The

her memories. She could

in her life. How else could Claudette

ever compete with Mackenzie?

in, “Aunt Laura, did you hear that?

He turned to Mackenzie

you just as

eyes in exasperation. Here she was, heavily

and Quintus still wouldn’t give up his

come on, enough already!

Lenoir,” Emmanuel’s tone became serious

surname Verkade. Do you know what role the

Quillen family

face paling as she

you address me as Ms. Lenoir because

myself in their affairs

as she continued, “Are you

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involved in the Quillen

Laura,

people would have such

situation.

to distance herself from the

do with it.

Verkade family will be

the major families in

of the Nuthana Chamber of Comce.

directly there.”