The Heir's Secret Bride

Chapter 124

Maeve froze for a moment. "Wasn't it you who saved me?"

"No." Byron replied, his brows deeply furrowed. "When I found you, you had fainted on the path leading to that abandoned

warehouse.

If the kidnappers hadn't released her, how could she have ended up there?" Byron wondered.

"I don't know, I was knocked out from behind. After that, I don't remember anything. Maeve murmured, her eyes filled with confusion. "Wait, are you suspecting that I had something to do with the kidnappers?" As the realization hit her, she stared at Byron in disbelief. "You were both abducted and while Karen was harmed, you managed to escape unscathed. Do you think that makes sense?" Byron countered coldly.

"So what?" Maeve's heart sank. "Whatever happened after I was knocked out was beyond my control. Are you saying that unless I suffered like Karen, it wouldn't make sense?"

Byron frowned. "Maeve, don't be unreasonable. I'm just trying to get the facts.

"Unreasonable?" Maeve almost laughed out of frustration. "You've already decided I'm a suspect, haven't you? I don't have a grudge against Karen, so why would I do such a thing? Even if you're suspicious, shouldn't there be some basic logic to it!"

If I had really done it, I'd admit it. But for something I didn't do, no one can force me to confess, Maeve thought, seething in anger.

The ward fell into silence. After a long pause, Byron spoke slowly, staring at Maeve's reddening eyes. "Back then at the restaurant, you didn't want me to meet Karen, and you even complained about her, didn't you?"

Maeve's fingers clenched tightly, a trace of desolation creeping into her gaze. "So that's why you suspect me? Byron, are you! disappointed that nothing happened to me? Do you wish it had been me instead of Karen? I'm so sorry to have let you down

"Maeve!" Byron's eyes hardened. "Do you even know what you're saying?"

colluded with the kidnappers? I'm asking you, what

Karen is the one he holds dearest. What about me? Am I so worthless? Not only do I have to endure

in his expression. "Think whatever you want,"

unrelenting wind. She thought, Karen is pitiful, but what about me? Is it my

ward and threw herself into Maeve's arms at that moment.

Maeve wiped the tears from her eyes,

the bodyguards at the door? They almost wouldn't let me in. Did Byron send them to keep an eye on

watching me? Maeve's face turned ashen, thinking. He really thinks I colluded with those

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night? Or because I inexplicably fainted outside that abandoned warehouse! I don't even

not be that. Maybe he's just worried about

didn't strangle me. And now he wants to protect me?

As a fellow woman, she didn't wish such a fate. upon Karen. But being wrongfully accused made her

something wrong with Maeve. She and Karen were kidnapped together. How could the kidnappers just let her go? I can't believe there's no foul play involved!"

just passed away,

happened, how can Karen ever get married?

No one else will know." He would repay Karen with the kindness her

she left her room. After much persuasion, she finally got out. She found Karen's ward and

pale on the bed. When she saw Maeve enter, her gaze became sharp with hostility

come?" Maeve frowned. "What did you mean by that