The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 398 What Was Going On?

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Ryan’s phone rang. Stella assumed it was Tempest calling. Clearly, Ryan had been dealing with at lot from the Hale family lately. Even if she didn’t say it, Stella could feel the resentment Ryan carried toward them now.

After hearing the news over the phone, Ryan’s eyes widened in shock. “Alright, got it.” She hung

and turned to Stella. “Madam Susan’s in the hospital.”

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Everyone around Stella referred to Susan as Madam Susan, never as your mother. They all knew she didn’t deserve the title. And in Stella’s heart, she wasn’t a mother.

Stella raised an eyebrow, “What happened?”

“No idea. A colleague from the hospital called. If her body really gives out now, the Reed family’s situation will get even worse.”

Stella was speechless. Worse? The Reed family was already a complete disaster. But if Susan was out of the picture, then Lillian would have no one left to protect her.

Wait…

She thought she might know why Susan ended up in the hospital. “It’s probably because of Lillian.”

Ryan looked confused. “Hm?”

you heard? Bing’er

thought those rumors were scary enough. She didn’t expect them actually be true. “So after all these years, who exactly was Madam

her to distinguish between insiders and outsiders,”

speechless. ‘Raised her well–those words couldn’t be more fitting when describing Susan. She used to accuse Stella of not knowing where her loyalties lay. Well, now she did. A little

probably losing her mind,” Ryan

she crawls out of that hospital just to keep finding ways to help

speechless again.

it’s no longer

to Falvaria soon.

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call came in for Ryan, again about Susan. After she hung up,

catch her

any

calm. It wasn’t that she was cold–it was just that she felt nothing. She never had feelings for those people. And after the way they treated her upon her return to Rivermount–not kicking

really died, then Lillian would

were about to order, Stella’s phone rang. It

Abraham even let her out was rare. If

up, and Ryan grinned.