Chapter 51
“Will you two be okay alone?“ Elijah asked worriedly while furtively glancing at me.
Jenna smiled at him and said. “Tve calmed down. Don’t worry, I’m not planning to fight with Natalia”
“Alright. I’ll stand guard outside the room. Call me if you need anything” Elijah closed the door and left.
Only Jenna and I were left in the room. I stood stifly where I was. It had been a long time since I’d been alone with Jenna
I had no idea what she wanted to say to me. My instinctive reaction was to frown and resist whatever the asked of me
Jenna asked me to sit down and said calmly. Tve been lying idly in bed for the past few days. I kept recalling things in the past. I recalled the first time I saw you in the orphanage. You were only three years old. Your eyes were very similar to that of Skylar. You were so innocent and cute. After i brought you home. I would think of Skylar every time I heard you call me ‘Mom‘. At that time, I always told myself that Skylar was not lost. You were Skylar
Jenna spoke casually, and there was a smile on her face. However, her words pierced my heart like knives.
Growing up. I respected her, appreciated her, and loved her, Because she was good to me. I treated her as my biological mother.
She adopted me and gave me a warm and happy home.
1 used to believe that she was an angel on Earth
I was too young to realize that
at the dress she put on for me and the braids she braided for me were all to dress me up like Skylar
Suppressing the bitterness in my heart, I said in a low voice, “I’ve always been Skylar’s substitute. Since Skylar has returned now. you abandoned the substitute.
I had never thought of snatching anything away from Skylar. In the past, I only hoped that I could stay by their side and that Jenna would still treat me as her daughter, even if I was not her most beloved daughter.
Jenna sighed and looked me in the rye. She confessed, “Alter Skylar came back, I also dought about treating both of you equally. However, I couldn’t do it because Skylar had suffered too much after she went missing. The person who adopted her was from an ordinary family. She didn’t receive a good education. She didn’t get to dress up nicely and didn’t even travel abroad. Things that you’ve been taking for granted. Skylar was denied.
“That’s not fair. Skylar is my precious baby, and you’re just a child from the orphanage. Why are you living better than Skylar! The more Outstanding you are, the more I feel sorry for Skylar
I couldn’t understand Jenna’s twisted mind. From her point of view, constantly suppressing and torturing me was a form of compensation for Skylar.
I chuckled and retoried, “And then what? You raised Skylar well. Are you satisfied with the outcome now??
Jenna knew very well how Skylar had turned out after being pampered by her for the past two years Jenna knew the trouble Skylar had caused
Jenna’s eyes were filled with resentment. She pursed her lips and remained silent.
said indifferently. “Did you call me here today just to tell me this?”
This was not Jenna’s style. My intuition told me that she must have other motives for agreeing to my request of severing ties family.
with the flinton
Jenna said. “Promise me that if anything happens to Skylar in the future, you will do your best to save her. I know you. for more than 20 years. This is my last request”
hate
but I’ve
red you
I was stunned. Combined with
h Elijah’s worried reaction just now, I guessed that Jenna’s heart condition had most likely worsened.
She didn’t know how much longer she could live, and she didn’t trust Elijah, so she wanted me to shoulder this burden.
“Aren’t
you overestimating me? I have no time to take care of myself. How can I protect your precious Skylar?” i mocked.
Jenna smiled when she heard that. She said, “You went to the Madden family alone and got Quinn to agree to marry you. Since then, I knew that you were extraordinary. After all, I raised you. What do you say? If you agree to my request, I’ll give you the legal documents you need.”
I didn’t want to continue talking nonsense with her, so I nodded in agreement.
Jenna called Elijah in and instructed him to call Lucia and ask her to send the legal documents over.
While I was waiting, I went to the washroom and called Rose. I told her the good news. I said, “Rose, you previously said that you know someone that can help me get Benedict’s custody. Can you introduce me to that person!”
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problem,” Rose agreed readily. Til contact the person now.”
After hanging up the phone, I wandered around the garden for a while. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds above my head, I was in a good mood. I had finally settled one of my worries.
Estimating that Lucia should be arriving soon, I took the elevator upstairs.
group o
of medical staff brushed past me and hurriedly pushed someone into the operating theater.
It happened so fast I didn’t get a good look at the face of the patient on the bed.
The next second, Skylar and Elijah ran out of the ward crying
My heart skipped a bear. I hurried forward and asked them, “What happened?”
“Not long after you left, Jenna said that she was dizzy and started vomiting. I felt that something was off. When I called the doctor over, consciousness.” Elijah was extremely anxious. After saying that, he ran toward the operating theater.
Why did Jenna lose consciousness out of the blue? What Elijahs described didn’t sound like the symptoms of a heart attack.
Skylar stood rooted to the ground and glared at me. She looked like she wanted to skin me alive.
I didn’t want to talk to her. After some thought, I decided to follow Elijah to the operating theater to check on the situation.
Skylar grabbed my arm and said with a dark expression, “Natalia, you want Mom to die, right?”
“What did you say?” I frowned and shook her off coldly.
- r. she had lost
Skylar looked straight at me and said, “If Mom dies, then y
you are the murderer.”
With that, she quickly headed toward the operating theater.
An hour later, a doctor came out and informed Elijah with a solemn expression. “We discovered a large amount of psychiatric drugs in the patient’s blood. The hospital has called the police,
“Psychiatric drugs?” Elijah widened his eyes and muttered, “How is this possible? Where did the hospital get these drugs?”
Skylar pointed at me and shouted, “Natalia, it’s you! You must have injected Mom with the psychiatric drugs. You were alone with Mom for so long just now. You were holding a grudge, so you did this to Mom!”
“Skylar, stop running your mouth without thinking.” I retorted immediately.
A few police officers arrived at the hospital. Skylar cried and continued to accuse me of drugging Jenna,
When the police officers heard this, they frowned and asked me to follow them to the police station. An officer said, “Ms. Hinton, please cooperate
with us.
ect all of a
sudden.
I became the prime suspect
When one of the officers saw me not responding to them, he tried to forcefully grab my arm.
At the same time, a man pulled me into his embrace.
I looked up and met Quinn’s deep eyes.
