Shining Bright After Rebirth

Chapter 969

Chapter 969 Your Reputation Is. Ruined

“Jenny,” Diana said, her voice low, “I’ll give you the address in ten days. Be careful, okay? I’m hanging up now, but I’ll send you some gifts later.”

“Jenny…” Diana wanted to ask more, but Jenny had already ended the call.

Diana’s mind raced, and a question she hadn’t considered before began to gnaw at her.

Andrew wasn’t Steven’s biological father–so where was Steven’s real dad?

Jenny had sounded in a surprisingly good mood on the phone, so had she always known the truth?

Had she kept quiet because of how easily Steven was manipulated by Queenie back then?

But no, that didn’t make sense.

Diana, having been a mother herself, knew all too well the lengths a mother would go for her child.

Just like in her past life, when Steven found out she was pregnant, he tried to imprison her, threatening to take the child

In’t obey.

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She hadn’t fought back, staying locked in that mansion for three months, all for the sake of giving birth to her child–and ultimately, meeting her death.

She stood up, her thoughts spinning as the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place.

With every new truth she uncovered this past year, she couldn’t shake the feeling that Leopold was hiding something from her

too.

Diana let out a heavy sigh, expelling the tension from her chest.

She gazed out the window at the swirling snow, her long lashes fluttering as she smiled softly. Her perfect eyebrows arched slightly, and she spoke to herself in a whisper, “Steven, who are we really to each other? Am I your pawn, or are you mine?”

The more she thought about it, the more it seemed like Jenny was the hidden mastermind, the one pulling the strings from the

shadows.

But who had sent her away all those years ago?

Jenny had always been the kind of

the guise of being mentally ill, and

for a

bed,

to the truth, the more she

an onion–every layer revealed something new, and none

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morning, George woke up to find Queenie sitting beside him, her face a mask of concern and worry. His eyes burned with

awake, every time he closed

from

couldn’t understand it–how had his Christmas ended

this?

had turned into one of the most humiliating experiences of his

awake,” Queenie said, her voice trembling with relief. Her eyes were red from crying, and

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her, his voice

need to keep you under observation for another week before you can leave the

George replied, his voice

His

shifted to Queenie sitting in a wheelchair, and he froze for a moment,

without trouble, he let out a breath he hadn’t

to your legs? Why are you in a wheelchair?” he

at her legs. The people who’d done this to her had at least

a wheelchair now, so she wants us to suffer with her,” Queenie said, her voice

been stuck in the

Your Reputation Is

dare she? How could she send someone after us on Christmas?” Queenie’s frustration was palpable, but there was little she could do right now. She, too, needed treatment and hadn’t

where Diana lived. Even if she wanted

Christmas is over, we’ve got a lot of things to take care of.” Queenie’s thoughts drifted to the plot of land she had bought. from the Farleys, and an uneasy feeling settled in her chest. Her dreams were fragmented, and she couldn’t recall anything about that land, not a single

broke through her thoughts. “Hand me my phone. I’m not just gonna lie here doing nothing. Diana has to pay for what she

hiding too much. I never took her seriously before, but

handed him

of this whole situation. Maybe we should come up with a different

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doing is pure revenge. She’s playing the game so well, that I never saw her for what

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