When The Family Reads The Fake Heiress Mind

When the Book–Traveling Girl Meets the Reborn Girl

Chapter 437 A Devastating Blow

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“As for Mr. Dalton’s illness,” the housekeeper said, her voice tight as she bit her lip. I’m not entirely sure. I’m no medical expert… but I heard it’s bone cancer. A tumor growing inside the bone.”

Her words landed like a hammer in the quiet room, and everything fell into a stunned silence.

Jean froze.

Her breath caught in her throat, her eyes trembling with disbelief. Her fingers curled tightly into her palms.

She had braced herself for something serious, had even prepared for the worst.

But this… this still hit like a punch to the chest.

Bone cancer.

A serious illness, no question.

Next to her, Winston didn’t speak.

His face was devoid of expression–like it had been wiped clean by a layer of frost. He looked calm, but the sharp set of his jaw and the tension in his shoulders gave him away.

turned to glance at

ink that refused to

was something frightening in his

quiet, restrained storm. Grief held under

reached out and grabbed his

asked softly, worry

tremble in his arm. Subtle, but undeniable. A

Her brows furrowed deeper.

“Winston?” she called again.

like he’d just been hit by a truck. On the surface, he was quiet and composed, but she could feel the chaos just beneath it. Like a

sharp, slicing through the quiet like icewater. He stared

away. Lately, things seemed better, so he insisted on going back to school…

the air–had been knocked out

and just like that, all the coldness, all the distance in

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the first time, Jean saw something she’d never seen

Confusion. Pain:

He wasn’t calm anymore.

He looked… vulnerable.

him, stunned, unable to