How could Lily suddenly appear right in front of me if the police couldn’t even track her down?
And by the looks of it, she had hired someone to kidnap me.
Sensing my stare, Lily turned around from the passenger seat.
“Awake already? You’ve got an impressive metabolism,” she smirked as the car bumped along the road. The motion hit me hard, and I immediately started dry–heaving.
“Pull over! I’m gonna be sick.”
I threw up the eggplant I had eaten earlier. Lily grimaced in disgust as she dragged me out of the car, turning to the driver with a frown
“Did you give her too much of the drug?”
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way, I followed the dosage exactly. Could it be the side effects of using two drugs together?”
The driver was the same guy who had delivered the food earlier. Turns out, they weren’t taking any chances. They used two drugs just to make sure.
After I finished throwing up, they hauled me back into the car.
Eventually, we stopped at a construction site, where the delivery guy dragged me into a metal shack.
He tossed me to the floor, and Lily waved him off.
“You can go for now. Get us something to eat. She’s not dying anytime soon.
She crouched in front of me, grabbing my chin.
“Look at you, all skin and bones. Where’s the beauty in that? What does Leonard even see in you? Maybe it’s that deathly glow, huh?” she sneered, her face pale and contorted with anger.
I couldn’t believe she was already out and about after having a miscarriage. Shouldn’t she be resting? Why kidnap me? None of it made any sense.
Seeing that I wasn’t responding, Lily didn’t get angry. If anything, her grin grew wider, amusement dancing in her eyes.
“You don’t even love Leonard. Why don’t you just divorce him?
“Or better yet, why did you marry him in the first place? You never should have, you know that, right?”
“But, honestly, I should thank you. If it weren’t for you, I would’ve never caught Leonard’s eye in the first place.”
I narrowed my eyes, studying her closely. Without makeup, she didn’t even resemble me that much. Had she been trying to mimic me this whole time? But why? Who was behind this?
“I’m already divorcing Leonard, We’ve signed the divorce agreement.”
“That’s impossible!‘ Lily suddenly snapped, grabbing my collar in a fit of rage.
“Eva, stop lying to me. You’d never divorce him! You love money too much to walk away!”
“You’ve seen the divorce agreement, haven’t you? The only reason he hasn’t left me is because you were
pregnant. He didn’t want to tarnish you with the label of a mistress.”
At that moment, I silently thanked Jill. If I hadn’t watched all those ridiculous soap operas with her, I
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wouldn’t have known what to say next.
As expected, Lily’s face
paled. “No… That’s impossible.
“The Harmon family can’t have a mistress as the wife. Leonard wanted to
his grandfather couldn’t object.”
“You already know we’ve been over for a long time, right?”
walt until the baby was born so
Lily had always believed that Leonard loved her, and that belief was my one trump card in this situation.
“If you hadn’t caused all this trouble, you would already be Mrs. Peyton. He loves you, doesn’t he?”
I thought I had her. I really did. I believed, at the very least, she’d calm down and stop causing me grief.
I I
But I was wrong. In the next instant, she completely lost it.
“He loves me? He has never loved me. He only loved me because I looked like you!”
She practically screamed the words, and I was stunned
She looked nothing like the person I used to be. Why would she think that?
Lily’s laughter bubbled up, manic and self–deprecating, growing louder and louder before cutting off abruptly.
She glared at me, hatred burning in her eyes. “Leonard has only ever loved you! I was just a stand–in. A damn stand–in!”
