The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband

Chapter 572

And yet, despite the suffering she had endured from him, a part of her still screamed that he didn’t deserve to die the way he did in Brandon’s hands. No matter what kind of criminal he was, Jethro was still her daughter’s father. Lydia had always been soft— so much that some people might even call her a coward.

She was a quiet, servile woman who had always heeded her husband’s beck and call. Perhaps it was also because she depended on him for everything. Now that he was gone, she, too, had lost any semblance of direction.

Lydia looked down at her daughter and closed her eyes in pain, tears streaming down her cheeks.

“I’m sorry, darling…” she slowly uttered to the child in her arms.

The baby, blissfully innocent and uncomprehending, waved her tiny hands and babbled at her mother.

Natalie’s heart sank deeper with every step she took away from the ward.

She was pulled out of her despairing thoughts by the ringing from her phone. She looked at the screen, her brows furrowing at the caller ID.

Why was Brandon calling her?

Sean must have told him about her visit to the hospital. Natalie didn’t answer the call, afraid that Brandon would question her. She put the phone back inside her bag and pretended not to hear anything.

Just as she walked out the hospital gate, a woman wearing a blue baseball cap brushed past her. The stranger felt familiar for some reason. Natalie was about to take a second look, but she bumped into a man who was walking towards her.

woman! Don’t you have eyes? You knocked my phone to the ground!” the man

up the phone, and then handed it to him. When she looked back again,

things? The woman’s side

gingerly poked her head out from her hiding place to look at the gate

She

Natalie’s face. It could only mean that Natalie wasn’t able to persuade Lydia to appear

was one step ahead. She had already paid someone to pretend to be an employee from Jethro’s factory and tell Lydia that her husband was killed

It was easy enough to make up a story where Brandon had bribed the police to

everything

didn’t take you for this much of a fool, Natalie,” Vivian mocked as she walked into the

nothing money can’t fix.” Before entering the room, Vivian

plan was simple. She would make Lydia to change her mind later and then take the credit for

inside the

new visitor. The woman wore

cameramen following this woman. She

baby closer. “Who sent you

always had a smile on her face, to make

right in. She held Lydia’s hand kindly, saying, “As long as you make everything

felt sick for no reason. Maybe Vivian’s pungent perfume had caught