Anneliese''s limbs became limp, and her face turned pale.


    "Grandma, do you really hate him that much?" she asked in a trembling voice.


    Anneliese knew Nishay had a knot in her heart, but she never imagined it was to this extent.


    Nishay stared at her and said sharply, "Yes! If it weren''t for him, your family wouldn''t be dead! Your mother was about to give birth!" Her voice was hoarse yet piercing. Tears filled the brim of her eyes, and she clutched her chest tightly.


    Looking at her reaction, Anneliese was terrified. She reached out and wanted to soothe Nishay''s chest, but thetter pped her hand away.


    Smack!


    A red mark quickly surfaced across the back of Anneliese''s hand. She ignored it and tried to pour water, wanting to give Nishay some emergency medicine. However, Nishay knocked the water cup away too.


    "You just have to be with him, don''t you?" Nishay panted, ring at her.


    Anneliese bit her lips and said, "Grandma, I... Breaking up with him isn''t that simple..."


    "What do you mean?"


    Anneliese gritted her teeth and said, "Grandma, we''re already married."


    Hearing her words, Nishay was in disbelief. She couldn''t believe what she was hearing.


    Seeing her nk gaze, Anneliese was terrified Nishay would faint from the shock.


    "Grandma, don''t scare me. I''ll get the doctor..."


    p!


    Before Anneliese could turn around, a heavy pnded on her face.


    Unlike the earlier unintentional p on the hand, the p this time was full strength.


    In that split second, Anneliese''s cheek instantly stung.


    She held her face and stared at Nishay in disbelief.


    Since childhood, neither Nishay nor her adoptive parents had ever hit her. Even during those three years after her parents died, when Nishay''s emotions were at their worst, she neverid a finger on Anneliese either.


    Although she had been pped many times by the White family, she never knew that being pped by someone you love would hurt like hell.


    The pain in her heart was far worse than the pain on her face.


    Feeling hurt, wronged, panicked, and wounded, tears immediately fell from Anneliese''s eyes.


    Nishay was stunned too. When she regained her senses, she reflexively tried to reach out, but she quickly withdrew her hand and scolded harshly, "I can''t believe you did something like this! Are all men dead to you? Why do you insist on staying with the man who killed your family? You are a traitor! Your parents shouldn''t have adopted you in the first ce! Get out!"


    Those words were too cruel.


    Anneliese''s mind turned nk, and her face went as pale as a ghost.


    It took her a long moment before her voice returned.


    "Okay, I''ll leave first. Rest well, Grandma. We''ll talk after you have calmed down."


    Then, Anneliese quickly left the room.


    In the living room, Jessica was


    sitting on the couch and replying to


    Zane''s messages. Hearing


    movement, she turned to see


    el.r


    Annelieseing out with her head


    lowered.


    Jessica was going to ask how Nishay was, but she noticed Anneliese immediately headed


    toward the resting room of Maisie and the others. She asked Maisie to check on Nishay again and O immediately went to the master bedroom before Maisie could say anything.


    Sensing something wrong, Jessica hurried after her.


    However, Anneliese wasn''t in the room.


    After searching around, Jessica knocked on the locked bathroom door.


    "Annie? Are you in there?"


    A momentter, Anneliese''s voice came through the door.


    "Yes. I''m fine."


    "Do you want me toe in and keep youp....."


    Before she finished her words, Anneliese''s voice sounded again.


    "I''m really fine."


    Then, the sound of running water followed.


    Everything seemed normal, but Jessica still felt uneasy. She said nothing more and


    left the master bedroom.


    Instead of returning to the living room, she went straight to the study room.


    Just as she knocked, Jonathan''s voice sounded.


    "Come in."


    Then, Jessica poked her head in.


    Jonathan was behind theputer, dealing with documents. When he saw Jessica,


    he immediately knew that something was wrong.


    In that split second, his expression changed drastically, and he stood up.


    "What happened?"


    "I''m not sure. I just feel that


    something is off with Annie. Sh came out of her grandma''s coom and locked herself in the master bathroom. You should..."


    Before she finished, Jonathan rushed past her like a gust of wind, disappearing into


    the master bedroom.


    When Jonathan reached for the bathroom door and tried to push it, he noticed that it was locked.