Chapter 196 Return to What It Used to Be

The letter was positively crawling with wishes and hopes for Deirdre, and only a few lines described the mother’s own state of affairs. She had clearly believed this was just another of many letters she would

pen

for her daughter in the future–she had thought she would get to write again.

She had not known, at the time, that she was writing the last letter she would pen in her life.

Brendan’s chest tightened. He had just destroyed one of the most priceless things in the world… with his own hands. If Deirdre knew…

She would go mad.

He immediately called someone in to restore the letter.

Deirdre returned to her room shortly after he left. She instinctively got down on all fours, her hands grazing across the floor to feel for the pieces. To her disappointment, she could not find a single piece, even though she was sure Brendan had scattered it like confetti.

“Miss McKinnon, what are you looking for?” Sam asked.

me look, please?” Deirdre replied with a request. “Are there any pieces

you drop something? Let me

noticeable second, Deirdre seemed dazed. Then, suddenly, she shook her

not important.”

woman abandon her search, he let

Brendan focused on creating a pristine replica of the original letter. Creating a copy of the letter’s content was not hard,

time.

“Mr. Brighthall? We found a candidate. She’s currently waiting downstairs. Do you want

and the words on the letter

the door was pushed open, revealing Sawyer and a middle–aged woman in a nondescript getup. Brendan had

of your requirements, sir,” Sawyer

average and unremarkable, but that was not a problem. The only qualification she

was visibly disconcerted by Brendan’s overall composure. Even her

It was 90% close to Ophelia’s! No,

blindness was the biggest advantage he could ever have asked for. It would have been almost impossible to look for a doppelganger who bore an uncanny resemblance to both Ophelia’s face and voice. But since he only needed one over the other, the

easier.

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