The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 364 Cold Truths and Close Calls

The second she saw the gun pointed at her, Susan went completely still.

“A–Ah! Y–You… what are you doing?” She stammered, her entire body shaking.

Her voice trembled, stuttering uncontrollably.

She’d already seen what had happened to Jonathan when he returned from Seaflats Cove- broken, humiliated. She knew the people around Stella weren’t the type you messed with.

But still… she was Stella’s mother. Her mother!How could they treat me like this?

Susan stood frozen in disbelief, her mind spinning.

“You… you can’t…”

Just then, the butler stepped forward between the two maids, hands calmly folded behind hist back. His eyes were sharp, steady–and just a little chilling. “Madam Susan, do you know why. your son left Seaflats Cove last time with a broken arm?”

Susan blinked, stunned. “W–Why?”

“Because he tried to hit Ms. Dawson.”

“He’s her brother!” she blurted out.

The butler’s gaze turned cold. “Her brother? In that case, Madam Susan… I’m afraid you won’t be leaving here so easily today.”

Susan’s breath caught. “W–What do you mean?”

What does that even mean? What are they planning to do to me?I’m her mother, she told herself, trying to stay calm. They wouldn’t actually hurt me… would they?

Her chest tightened with fear.

The butler calmly adjusted the cuff of his sleeve. “The daughter cherished by both the Luke and Dawson families–personally raised by Madam Evelyn and Mr. Abraham–isn’t someone just anyone can claim as their own.”

Susan’s eyes widened.

in slightly, his voice calm but cutting. “You say

throat tightened, and her chest started

keep calling her your daughter,” he went on, “but during her time

hær? And now—what? You suddenlu cara? Or

Truths and Close

“No… that’s not it…”

+8 Pearls

but cutting. “Then tell me, what is all this sudden affection

on the word–like he was dragging her

To see.

was about

Meanwhile, in the car-

had just finished

outside, caught a glimpse of what was happening, and without warning, pulled Stella’s head into his

blinked, caught off guard. “What the–what are you

finish, Abraham leaned down and kissed her, cutting

“Mmph- Seriously?

triggered him again–even thought she hadn’t done a thing. She’d just

move.

finally let

back without

now, she could read him–whenever his breathing changed like that, things always

move away, he grabbed her and

you think youre gone, huh?”

In the car? Stella flushed. “I–I’m not going anywhere. Just let me go.

the car!”

not the time or place for…

cue, the divider screen in the car slowly began