Under the heiress facade

Roman, who had been bawling his eyes out, froze at Hera's words. His heart leaped into his throat.

Linda had sent all the bodyguards away before Roman pulled Xavier into the water. It was the perfect time to act.

He had taken action because Aurora said the drug she obtained from the backyard was for her baby. Hence, the Killian family was trying even harder to look into this to find out who the perpetrator was.

Roman felt guilty about it. Xavier had seen him talking to Linda before, so he feared that Xavier would tell others about it.

Roman wanted to give Xavier a warning, but he never expected Hera to appear out of the blue and ruin his plans.

Looking at how terrified Xavier was at the moment, Roman felt a sense of pleasure. However, his glee was short-lived because Hera had started questioning him, and he started to fret.

Hera demanded, "Why don't you tell us why you pretended you didn't know how to swim and dragged Xavier into the water?"

"I-I didn't!" Roman stammered, frightened at how cold and hostile Hera was.

almost losing his life in the water, he was terrified of Hera. She really had the guts

lying! You kicked Roman away and dragged him underwater! How dare you say that you tried to help Xavier!" "Are

but don't you dare think you can fabricate such lies here in the Killian residence!" "That's enough, Linda!"

at

Roman and Mr. Xavier got into a fight beside the lake and accidentally fell into the water. I don't know why they got into a fight in the first place. Ms. Linda said she lost the earrings Mr. Rhett gave her in the garden and asked me to look for them." She continued, "When I came back, I saw Mr. Roman stuffing Mr. Xavier's mouth with mud, and then

eyes turned bloodshot after hearing what Roman did to Xavier. No one

you people have to say?" Karen turned to the bodyguards beside them. "Why didn't any of

Your job is

of all the

bodyguards lowered his head, abashed. "We were looking for Ms. Linda's earrings. None of us realized that somebody had fallen into the lake." Feeling everyone's gaze on her, Linda took out a golden earring

from Rhett. I lost one of them and started panicking, so I asked the bodyguards to look for it. When they found it, I heard someone's cries and immediately brought them

"It's strange, though. Talia, why were you the

while Marriot was Xavier's caretaker. Marriot had always stayed

some reason, she wasn't here with Xavier today. People would become suspicious of her because such a major incident happened when she