The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming

Chapter 503 The Phone in the Safe

Natalie stepped forward and pulled Grace up. "Save your confessions for the officials, not me."

"I know what you're investigating, Nattie, and I know you're working with the police department. The password to the safe in my room is your birthday. Please, go get

it."

Grace continued to plead. "If I have to die, so be it. But before that, I really want to know if my daughter is still alive and if she's doing well. I have to know, or I'll take this regret to my grave."

Just then, someone knocked on the door. "Please come out for a second, Ms. Walker," one of the officers said.

"Alright."

Natalie turned to Marcus. "You stay here and watch after her, Marcus."

Marcus nodded in reply.

Then, he stepped forward and placed a firm hand on Grace's shoulder, guiding her back into the chair.

"Megan was introduced to the Holdens by Lucy back then. Lucy took her own life, and her body was sent back to the Maines."

With a cold voice, Marcus asked, "How well did you know Lucy, Mrs. Langley Senior?"

Grace froze. After a moment of hesitation, she nodded slightly, then shook her head as if confused. "I saw her with Cassie before. She had feelings for a married man, but he never reciprocated. So, Cassie drugged that man and lured him to a hotel. I don't know if anything happened between him and Lucy, but I do know that Cassie was behind it."

"That man was Elijah and Noah's father," Marcus said as he tapped his fingers on the desk lightly. "Jessy is Lucy's biological daughter, but there is no familial connection between her and Elijah or Noah."

"Why are you

trying to set me up with Jessy before," Marcus stated bluntly. "Lucy has been overseas for years, but Jessy stayed close to Cassie. And if anyone knows where Megan is,

missing, I assume you'd have spoken to

it together. "Cassie used Jessy as leverage to threaten Lucy. So when your mother's Umbrahex was exposed, Lucy killed herself to show her loyalty to Cassie, hoping she'd leave Jessy alone. Is that what

years using Jessy, then, as you said, Megan was involved in harming my mother.

down those involved in harming my mother, but so far, we've only tracked down Julie and Lucy. There's

escaped, and by sheer luck, my people rescued her.

Marcus. He was undeniably handsome, but his cold demeanor and emotionless

air.

carefully thought over Marcus' words. If there was someone behind all of this, could it be the mysterious woman who had

the mysterious woman's purpose in

gain Laura's trust, making Laura think of her as a sister.

was separated from her baby right after birth was eerily similar to how that mysterious woman took Grace's daughter back

searching for a cure, and against all odds, they eventually found a doctor who freed

them, Grace wasn't so lucky. She might have escaped being poisoned, but she

tell

the table. "This might be one of the last chances you have to

Grace steadied herself, meeting Marcus' gaze. "Every word

back then, promising to make the Langleys the richest in Amberton-but only if

at the hospital was her doing. I never saw her face, never knew who she really was. But I do know she wasn't Cassie because when she approached me,

was

to your grandfather, to make him take me in

phone from my safe just