Chapter 786
Teresa shook her head. “Don’t worry. Jonathan helped out. He gave Jennifer false information and didn’t tell her the real test results.”
Evelyn finally let out a sigh of relief. She understood Teresa’s good intentions. She said, “I know it’s not right to lie, but this is a white lie. If Hannah finds out that Peggy is her real mother, she’ll definitely be devastated and do something stupid.
“I know Hannah very well. We have to wait until she’s completely over Peggy. Maybe after some time, she’ll be able to accept it.”
Teresa nodded. She thought, ‘Hopefully, after some time, Jennifer will be able to accept the truth.’
Suddenly, a dull thud came from outside the door. Teresa froze for a moment. “What was that sound?” she asked.
“Did you hear something?” Evelyn asked. She didn’t hear anything.
But Teresa, ever alert, had definitely caught the noise from just outside the door. She slipped her hand out of Evelyn’s and stepped out to take a look.
There was no one outside. Teresa wondered, ‘Did I hear it wrong?’
Just as she was about to turn back into the room, she spotted a fruit basket sitting on the floor. She froze. She thought, ‘So there really was someone out here just now! Who could it have been?’
She stopped a nurse passing by and asked her. The nurse pointed down the hallway and said, “I just saw a woman with long hair run off, covering her mouth. She was wearing white and looked really skinny.”
Teresa thought, ‘Long hair, skinny, and she ran off covering her mouth? Could it be…’
A sudden sense of foreboding hit Teresa. The first thing she did was call Miriam. Teresa wondered, ‘Did Miriam come to see Lucas? After all, Miriam had mentioned just last night that if she got the chance, she wanted to meet her own brother.’
However, Miriam denied it right away. She said she hadn’t been to the hospital at all. She and Edward were having fun with Michael.
Teresa hung up, and her sense of foreboding only deepened. She thought, ‘Could it be… Jennifer?! But… Wasn’t she supposed to have gone back to Nareigh?’
She hurried to the security office, asking to check the surveillance footage.
Meanwhile, at the airport, Jennifer, with tears in her eyes, hurriedly boarded her flight. After finding out she wasn’t Peggy’s daughter yesterday, Jennifer had spent the whole night awake, lost in thought.
She thought about all the mistakes she had made in the past. She wondered if she was so lucky that she still had a glimmer of hope in her life.
She remembered how Evelyn had held her hand, telling her that no matter what happened, she would always be her first child. But Jennifer had just pulled her hand away impatiently, telling her to stop pretending to care.
She hadn’t missed the white hairs on Evelyn’s head and the pained look on Evelyn’s face. A wave of guilt washed over her. She shouldn’t have treated Evelyn like that.
After spending a sleepless, lonely night at home, Jennifer booked an early morning flight to Jarisburg. She used the excuse of visiting Lucas as a reason, but deep down, she just wanted to apologize to Evelyn.
But she didn’t expect that she would end up overhearing Evelyn and Teresa’s conversation. After the paternity test results came out yesterday, the police called her again, but she refused to answer.
She couldn’t even say what exactly she was afraid of. Maybe the call was about Peggy.
She didn’t want to think about things like why she looked so much like Peggy, or how she even shared blood with Teresa, yet the test results said she wasn’t Peggy’s daughter. She didn’t wanna know if there was something fishy going on.
She didn’t dare to think about it any further. She had believed that phone call – the one that said she wasn’t really Peggy’s daughter. But now, the last string holding her together finally snapped.