Chapter 5
This time, it was Gabriel’s turn to be dumbstruck.
His pupils shrank, and his body went rigid, frozen like stone, and it took him a long moment before he could find his voice:
“Dad… what are you saying? How could anything happen to Mom? She couldn’t have died on the operating table. That was…..”
Before he could finish, the voice on the other end cut him off harshly. “Shut up, you bastard! Take your mother’s ashes home immediately. Friends and relatives are already here!”
The call ended before Gabriel could respond.
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He stood frozen in place, trembling all over. His eyes were swirling with shock as if his soul had been ripped away.
In all the years I had lived with him, I had never seen such a complex expression on his face.
Angelica hurried forward and grabbed his arm. “Mr. Simon! Calm down! Don’t get worked up. Sir Simon must have misunderstood something. At the hospital, we clearly knew who had passed away. Maybe Mrs. Simon said something to him that caused this huge misunderstanding.”
Hearing that, Gabriel seemed to clutch at a lifeline. He lunged toward me, shouting, “It was you! You told my dad this? Amelia, what the hell are you thinking? Are you really capable of doing anything just to get back at
me?”
Revenge? At this point, he actually thought I was plotting against him.
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I let out a bitter laugh, my voice dripping with sarcasm. “If I’m lying, why don’t you go home and see for yourself? If your mother’s still alive, you’ll see her there, won’t you?”
Gabriel blinked, as if waking from a dream. He grabbed my hand without a word and started walking home.
All the way, he muttered to himself, “No… no, Mom can’t be hurt. This has to be a misunderstanding! It must be a mistake!”
But the moment he stepped inside, all hope shattered. Right in front of him stood a black–and–white portrait. Who else could it be but Lillian?
He froze, then bolted upstairs to her room like a man possessed. He searched everywhere, but no one was there. He tore through every room in the house, but she was nowhere to be found.
Panic surged in his eyes as he stumbled toward Patrick, his voice shaking. “Dad! What are you doing? It wasn’t Mom who had the accident. It was Amelia’s mother! Why did you set up the memorial at our house?”
His agitation grew. “I was at the hospital that day, I couldn’t have been mistaken! I couldn’t have!”
He grabbed me, as if trying to confirm something, and turned to face Patrick. “Amy… say something! I need to explain to my dad! It was Clarissa who died, right? Tell everyone!”
But before he could get another word out, he received a heavy slap across
the face.
Patrick glared at him through gritted teeth. “You bastard! You’re still losing your mind? You signed your mother’s death certificate yourself, and you still think you can hide the truth from me?
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“I’ve been abroad for just a few days, and this happened to your mother? I swear I’ll strangle you with my own hands!”
He threw the death certificate at Gabriel’s face.
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Gabriel stood there, completely dumbfounded. Slowly, he brought the paper up and finally saw the name. His expression shifted drastically, his body trembling, as if he no longer had the strength to stand.
At that moment, my parents, who were visiting the countryside, arrived.
She
When he saw Mom, he completely collapsed. He ran toward her, screaming, “How is it you? How can it be you? Weren’t you dead? How are you standing here perfectly fine?”
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