Chapter 263

Isadora frowned, thinking she must have misheard.

"Suicide?" she repeated, her voice barely above a whisper.

Laura, worried Isadora wouldn't believe her, spoke slowly and clearly. "Yes. Mr. Vaughan and Mrs. Vaughan have been fighting a lot lately. This morning, after another huge argument, Mrs. Vaughan went straight to her room and didn't say a word. She stayed in there for ages. When we were cleaning, we found her in the bathroom-she'd cut her wrists. Thank God we found her in time, or she would've bled out."

Only then did the weight of the situation hit Isadora.

Eleanor Vaughan was the kind of woman who'd never even lift a finger for chores, let alone tolerate pain. If she'd tried to take her own life, something truly devastating must have happened.

Isadora glanced up at the looming glass tower of The Fitzgerald Group just ahead, hesitated, then turned the steering wheel and changed direction.

Half an hour later, she pulled up in front of Vaughan Manor.

She got out of the car and hurried through the grand foyer, heading straight for Eleanor's bedroom.

moment she opened the door, she saw Eleanor

face was utterly drained of color, lips a ghostly pale, her whole

family doctors were at her bedside, administering an

Isadora stepped forward.

her own life just

was firm. "Thank you. Could you please give us a

doctors nodded and

as a deserted house.

stir something. Eleanor's eyelashes fluttered, and suddenly her eyes filled with tears. One fat drop

heart softened at

up a stool and sat by the bed.

first, Eleanor only sobbed quietly, but then her grief broke loose in a wail. For a while,

instinctively-then hesitated, her hand suspended awkwardly in the air. After all these years of Eleanor's coldness, Isadora no longer felt hatred, but

eyes landed on a stack of documents on the bedside table. She picked

looked up, her eyes red and swollen, and croaked, "That's the divorce agreement Richard Vaughan gave me. The bastard transferred all my shares, the house, the money—everything—out of my name.” Isadora flipped to the next page and found

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