The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 450

"Let's open it up and see."

Aline took the package from Dick and fetched a box cutter. With careful, deliberate strokes, she sliced through the cardboard, peeling it open bit by bit.

When she saw there was just an envelope sitting on top, a little relief washed over her. Her whole body seemed to relax.

She reached inside, about to pull the envelope out, but as soon as her fingers brushed against it, her expression changed in an instant.

"Aaah!" she shrieked, lurching back and flinging the box across the room.

"What happened?" Dick demanded, seeing the color drain from her face.

Aline was visibly shaken; her hands were trembling, her voice choked with fear. "I... I felt something soft. And warm. And... it moved. It's alive, Dick."

That's when Dick noticed the blood smeared on her hand. "You're bleeding," he said.

in there." Aline couldn't stop her hands from shaking. The

box warily where it had landed a few feet away. He approached it with caution, picking it up and

what was in

Someone stabbed it right through, but it isn't quite dead

Aline's face twisted in horror as realization struck. She'd touched a dying rat. Her stomach lurched, and she

the time she came back out, she looked drained, as if

the sofa, she muttered weakly, "It was Citrine. It had to be that bitch.

was careful. There's no

the envelope lying on the floor. He hurried over, picked it up, and dumped

a second thought, Dick plugged it into the

popped up, filled with

one at random

miss that she was heavily pregnant. The

on the screen: shots of Aline and Dick together before her wedding to Sawyer, and more from after she was married-secret rendezvous behind Sawyer's

on screen, Aline