The Wrong Woman

Chapter 214

Nathan walked into the study. He invited Loretta to sit on the lounge. chair and began seriously questioning her.

“Have you seen Chubs at all during the ten years she was abroad, Madam Hoffis?”

“No,” she replied. “She was extremely occupied with her studies and had no time to return to the country. But we do talk on the phone.”

“What about video calls?”

“Those were quite rare.”

“At what point did you notice that she looked a bit different?”

Loretta was puzzled by his questioning. She nervously sat closer to him and asked, “Why are you asking me all this?”

He pursed his lips and thought for a moment. “Just answer me truthfully. I want to know more about Chubs.”

Upon hearing that he was interested in t jranddaughter, she was overjoyed and began telling him everything.

ago. We hadn’t made a video call to her in a year or two. When we finally

“But she didn’t like how young she looked, so she went to get some minor procedures done to her face. That and being busy from work had worn her out so much.”

“Was your daughter-in-law

son, my daughter-in-law, and my adopted son,

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having Thanksgiving dinner and called to say hi.”

Zach and Loretta

phony appeared in the same

anything bad? Were they nervous, uptight… Or were they

it for a while before shaking her head. “It’s been too long.

calls have

she choked, “I don’t know if they knew what was going to happen. Her parents frequently made video calls to me that month. They even said Sally would be good

month later, I received the news of their deaths. By the time we rushed back to Sunterland, I was only able to see their

as she

If

she couldn’t stop. She carried on by herself woefully, “Sally is a poor child. She lost her parents so abruptly that we couldn’t do anything but

She became stubborn and depressed. She was indolent and didn’t care for the family business, let alone