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 villainess of the story.
Selina’s tears fell free as she lowered her gaze, hiding the darkness that flickered beneath her lashes.
I’ll make Anneliese pay back the humiliation I suffer today twice over. She thinks just because she’s Mrs. Fullbuster now, she can use this chance to kick me out of the Whites. She’s got no idea how far out of her league she is.
Selina shot Anneliese another provoking glance, 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 loving family. But if Melanie and Perseus find out the truth, will they still treat Selina with the same tenderness, with no trace of resentment? I honestly can’t wait to see.
“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 too late; the display 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 Melanie, Perseus, and Christopher, her eyes glimmering with something unspoken.
If I throw that paternity report in front of the three of them right now, they won’t believe it. Timothy and Selina can talk their way out of anything, and those three would rather side with them than ever trust me.
But tomorrow? Tomorrow, Timothy is meeting Mikita at the restaurant. And really, what could hit harder than seeing it with their own eyes?
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.
Last night in my arms, she wasn’t like this at all. Her voice and her manner were soft, almost unbearably sweet. When things got rough, she even looked at me with teary eyes and tried to act coy. But now, just through the phone, I could hear that cold distance in how she speaks.
It gave me the feeling of one of those dainty little women who play sweet and delicate, then the second they step off the bed, they act like they don’t even know you.
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.”
