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.

call to her in a year or two. When we finally did,

looked, so she went to get some minor procedures done to her face. That and being busy from work had

bewildered. “Was your daughter-in-law also in the same video?”

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

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having Thanksgiving dinner and

and

same frame as Chubs’

reactions? Was there anything bad? Were

while before shaking her

calls have

they knew what was going to happen. Her parents frequently made video calls to me that month. They even said Sally would be good to Zach and me when

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

as she

couldn’t bring If to make

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

parents was too traumatic for her. She became stubborn and depressed. She was indolent and didn’t