Chapter 354 The Results Had Dropped
Chapter 354 The Results Had Dropped
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“Mom, Selina, stop begging Anneliese already. She’s a cold–hearted witch. She’s just stringing us along, never meant to actually help.”
“Exactly. Get up! Don’t tell me the Whites, with all the connections and clout we’ve built over the years, have to grovel before Mrs. Fullbuster. She wants to stand there with that icy stare? Fine. She’d better not expect me or Perseus to stand up for her if she ever gets mistreated in the Fullbusters.”
Timothy gently cupped Selina’s swollen cheek, his voice aching with pity. “Sweetheart, does it hurt? I’m your father. Stop calling me Mr. White.”
Selina was always the tactician. She dropped to her knees and made a show of humbling herself. In that moment, she looked both pitiful and self–sacrificing.
That left Anneliese, cast in their eyes as nothing more than the vicious viiness of the story.
Selina’s tears fell free as she lowered her gaze, hiding the darkness that flickered beneath hershes.
<i>I’ll </i><i>make </i><i>Anneliese </i><i>pay </i><i>back </i><i>the humiliation </i><i>I </i><i>suffer </i><i>today </i><i>twice </i><i>over</i><i>. </i><i>She </i><i>thinks </i><i>just </i><i>because </i>she’s Mrs. <i>Fullbuster </i><i>now</i><i>, </i><i>she </i><i>can </i><i>use </i><i>this </i><i>chance </i><i>to </i><i>kick </i><i>me </i><i>out </i><i>of </i><i>the </i><i>Whites</i><i>. </i><i>She’s </i><i>got </i><i>no </i><i>idea </i><i>how </i><i>far </i><i>out </i><i>of </i><i>her </i><i>league </i><i>she </i><i>is</i>.
Selina shot Anneliese another provoking nce, eager to catch even a flicker of jealousy, frustration, or, despair on her face.
But to her surprise, Anneliese wasn’t even looking at them. She was busy scrolling through her phone, eyes narrowed with an expression that seemed almost amused.
Selina’s gut told her whatever Anneliese was looking at wasn’t ordinary. And she wasn’t wrong. She knew Anneliese too well. What was on that screen was the result of a paternity test.
On her way to the hospital room earlier, Anneliese had logged into the testing center’s system, only to find the report still pending. Now, out of the blue, the results had dropped.
She read them in silence. Timothy and Selina confirmed as biological father and daughter. Selina and Mikita confirmed as mother and daughter. And Mikita’s little boy, Billy White, was also confirmed as Timothy’s son.
After lifting her gaze from the phone, Anneliese looked at the family clinging to each other
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like they’d never let go. The sight struck her as nothing but cruelly ironic.
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Such a devoted and <i>loving </i><i>family</i>. <i>But </i><i>if </i><i>Mnie </i><i>and </i><i>Perseus </i><i>find </i><i>out </i><i>the </i><i>truth</i><i>, </i><i>will </i>they still <i>treat </i>Selina with <i>the </i>same <i>tenderness</i>, with no <i>trace </i><i>of </i><i>resentment</i><i>? </i><i>I </i><i>honestly </i><i>can’t </i><i>wait </i><i>to </i><i>see</i><i>. </i>
“Anne, did you change your mind?” Selina caught the flicker in Anneliese’s eyes, that strange shift in her mood, and her gut told her Anneliese must’ve seen something on her phone.
She had no idea what it was, but she wasn’t about to let it slide. Selina lunged at her, grabbed the wrist holding the phone, and tilted her head to glimpse the screen. However, it was toote; the disy went dark before she could make out anything.
“Hard times are what really test love and loyalty. I truly hope the five of you will always stand by each other. Losing money or going broke, that’s nothing in the end. With love, even the simplest life feels full.
“What matters most is that you never lose Selina, who means so much to you.” Anneliese yanked her hand free. Before walking off, her gaze lingered on Mnie, Perseus, and Christopher, her eyes glimmering with something unspoken.
<i>If </i><i>I </i><i>throw </i><i>that </i><i>paternity </i><i>report </i><i>in </i><i>front </i><i>of </i><i>the </i><i>three </i><i>of </i><i>them </i><i>right </i><i>now</i><i>, </i><i>they </i><i>won’t </i><i>believe it</i>. <i>Timothy </i><i>and </i><i>Selina </i><i>can </i><i>talk </i><i>their </i><i>way </i><i>out </i><i>of </i><i>anything</i><i>, </i><i>and </i><i>those </i><i>three </i><i>would </i><i>rather </i><i>side </i>with <i>them </i><i>than </i><i>ever </i><i>trust </i><i>me</i>.
<i>But </i><i>tomorrow</i>? <i>Tomorrow</i>, <i>Timothy </i><i>is </i><i>meeting </i><i>Mikita </i><i>at </i><i>the </i><i>restaurant</i>. <i>And </i><i>really</i>, what <i>could </i><i>hit </i><i>harder </i><i>than </i><i>seeing </i><i>it </i>with <i>their </i><i>own </i><i>eyes</i><i>? </i><fne86a> Latest content published on find?novel</fne86a>
Anneliese had just stepped out of the ward when her phone buzzed. It was Jonathan.
She answered, her tone clipped. “What is it?”
Jonathan’s hand stilled over the papers in front of him. That calm, distant voice of hers caught him off guard.
<i>Last </i><i>night </i><i>in </i><i>my </i><i>arms</i><i>, </i><i>she </i><i>wasn’t </i><i>like </i><i>this </i><i>at </i><i>all</i><i>. </i><i>Her </i><i>voice </i><i>and </i><i>her </i><i>manner </i><i>were </i><i>soft</i><i>, </i><i>almost </i><i>unbearably </i><i>sweet</i>. <i>When </i><i>things </i><i>got </i><i>rough</i><i>, </i><i>she </i><i>even </i><i>looked </i><i>at </i><i>me </i><i>with </i><i>teary </i><i>eyes </i><i>and </i><i>tried </i><i>to </i><i>act </i><i>coy</i>. <i>But </i><i>now</i><i>, </i><i>just </i><i>through </i><i>the </i><i>phone</i><i>, </i><i>I </i><i>could </i><i>hear </i><i>that </i><i>cold </i><i>distance </i><i>in </i><i>how </i><i>she </i><i>speaks</i>.
<i>It </i><i>gave </i><i>me </i><i>the </i><i>feeling </i><i>of </i><i>one </i><i>of </i><i>those </i><i>dainty </i><i>little </i><i>women </i><i>who </i>y <i>sweet </i><i>and </i><i>delicate</i><i>, </i><i>then </i><i>the </i><i>second </i><i>they </i><i>step </i><i>off </i><i>the </i><i>bed</i><i>, </i><i>they </i><i>act </i><i>like </i><i>they </i><i>don’t </i><i>even </i><i>know </i><i>you</i><i>. </i>
Jonathan paused before he finally asked, “Rough day?”
Truth was, Anneliese wasn’t in the best mood. First, the Whites always managed to drain her
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energy, and then Selina had said something in the elevator that left her unsettled.
Without meaning to, she took it out a little on Jonathan.
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The moment she realized it, her voice softened. “Sorry. I just ran into someone I really can’t stand.”
“You didn’t get the short end of the stick, did you?” Jonathan asked.
That caught her off guard. Warmth spread quietly through her chest at his concern.
Anneliese’s bad mood faded so easily with him. She felt her lips curve before she even realized it. How he treated her–gentle, protective, almost indulgent–made it far too easy to believe she was loved.
And that was what scared her most. Falling for him felt like the easiest thing in the world. Pressing her lips together, she forced herself to answer lightly.
“No, I’m fine.”