The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 625

Hilda stared at Raymond, stunned and silent, unable to find words for a long time.

The two of them sat in heavy silence until finally, it was Raymond who broke it.

"Let's go outside and talk."

"Alright." Hilda's answer was immediate-she was desperate to hear any news about her daughter.

Before they left, Raymond turned to Manley and gave clear instructions: "I'll be out for a bit. If the surgery ends, let me know right away."

Neither of them could settle their nerves about their daughter, so they found a quiet coffee shop near the research center, somewhere private where they wouldn't be disturbed.

they'd left off. "Ever since Citrine returned to the Carmichael family, I've been having these dreams. They come to me, night after night—I see her being mistreated by those people who trafficked her, then living with the Iversons after Sawyer adopted her. I've seen her time on Mirage Cay, and I've seen the end— how

detail of his dreams, holding nothing

as he described what he'd seen in his dreams, a strange expression washed over her face. Shocked, she looked at him, her voice barely

met her gaze. "Do you really

unable to speak. If these were only dreams, they felt far

in her eyes. "What

"I don't know why we're sharing these dreams. But I can tell you with absolute certainty: everything you saw in your dreams truly happened.

scenes from her dreams were still burned into her memory. If all of it had really happened, then Citrine's life had truly

that it had all just been a nightmare. But Raymond

I thought it was just a bad dream too. But after each one, I sent people to investigate, and nearly everything I saw in those dreams turned out

tell you what I suspect. What we're dreaming of—it's Citrine's past life. In her previous life, she never broke ties with the Iversons, and she never acknowledged me as her father. She fell in love with Theo, only for him to hurt her again and again. She spent her life repaying the Iversons for raising her, and in the end, at