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.

hadn’t made a video call to her in a year or two. When we finally did, her chubby

continued, “But she didn’t like how young she looked, so she went to get some minor procedures done to her

“Was your daughter-in-law also

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

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having Thanksgiving dinner and called

He finally understood why Zach and Loretta never questioned Sally

same

asked again, “How were their reactions? Was there anything bad? Were they nervous, uptight… Or were they

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

of these calls have you guys made?”

happen. Her parents frequently made video calls to me that

even a month later, I received the news of their deaths. By the time we

as she spoke.

handed her some tissues. He couldn’t bring If to make

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

for her. She became stubborn and depressed. She was indolent and didn’t care for