Chapter 1612
“You should’ve done this a long time ago!” Bethany said, then suddenly seemed to remember something. “By the way, did you ask Lucas about that matter last night? What did he say?”
“Faye is Georgie’s biological child.” Belinda paused for several heartbeats, carefully weighing her next words before adding, “At least, that’s what Lucas knows.”
“I told you, Faye is indeed related to Lucas by blood,” Johnson said.
Bethany added, “Even if Faye truly is Lucas’s niece, that reality doesn’t eliminate the terrifying possibility that she orchestrated Belinda’s tumble down that treacherous hillside. She remains our primary suspect, and every calculated move she’s made since arriving here fills me with absolute disgust and makes my blood boil with rage.”
Johnson didn’t know what to say about that.
He also found Faye’s actions quite annoying.
She had stayed at Belinda’s place for three days, and every night, she had gone knocking on her bedroom door. What urgent matter could possibly demand she do something like that?
“Alright, I need to hang up. I’m going to eat now,” Belinda said.
The longer she dwelled on these infuriating circumstances, the more her anger threatened to consume her entirely.
“Of course, go ahead.”
Belinda ended the call.
Today, as usual, Faye rode in Lucas’s car to the company. However, while in the car, Lucas directly told Faye, “You’re not going back to my place after work today. Go back to our family house.”
Faye’s expression immediately changed when she heard that.
She quickly turned to Lucas. “Why? Uncle Lucas, did I do something wrong? Did I upset Belinda?”
“You upset me!” Lucas replied coldly.
“What did I do to upset you?” Faye’s face showed confusion.
After a moment, she suddenly seemed to remember something and asked, “Is it because I knocked on your door?”
She recalled with perfect clarity Lucas’s previous stern warning about respecting boundaries.
She quickly launched into an earnest explanation, her words tumbling over each other in desperate haste. “Uncle Lucas, I swear I didn’t do it on purpose! Last night, overwhelming concern for Mrs. Wright’s condition consumed my thoughts completely, which led me to—”
After drawing a deep, steadying breath, she added, “I promise I won’t knock on your door again, okay? Besides, Belinda’s injuries haven’t fully healed yet, and if I go back now, my conscience will torment me with guilt and sleepless nights.”
“You’ve seriously disrupted our lives,” Lucas said, his voice low and resolute.
At his words, Faye’s expression faltered. Her lips trembled as she stared at him in disbelief. “Disrupted your lives? I haven’t… How could I have?”
Lucas met her gaze unflinchingly, then rephrased with steely clarity, “You’ve seriously interfered with the intimacy between my wife and me. Is that clear enough for you now?”