A 12-Year Love Turned to Nothing Chapter 06
A knock sounded at the door. Chase got up to answer it, and Alice’s tearful face appeared without warning on the other side. Her eyes were red-rimmed, glistening with tears, like a wounded little rabbit.
Chase’s heart melted on the spot, his voice softening before he even realized it. “Alice, what are you doing here?”
Alice threw herself straight into his arms. “If I hadn’t come, who knows what kind of lies Nora would’ve spread about me by now!
“Is she really telling people I killed her mother? I didn’t! I swear I didn’t!
“I heard Nora’s mother wasn’t doing well, so I asked Ollie to take me to visit her.
“The second we got to the door, I overheard Nora talking to her mother. They were planning for Nora’s mom to fake her own death and pin it on me, so you’d hate me for good and the two of them could keep control of your
money…
“Chase, you’ve been so good to them, and this is how they repay you. It made me so angry on your behalf. I stormed into the room to confront her, and the second her plan got exposed, she tried to kill me right there!
“Chase, I was so scared. I really thought I was going to die. I thought I’d never see you again!”
Alice sobbed softly against Chase’s shoulder.
He hesitated for a moment before gently wrapping his arms around her, murmuring, “It’s okay, it’s okay. I’m here. I’ll get to the bottom of this. Don’t worry.”
Chase glanced back at me, his expression a tangle of conflicting emotions.
Two women. One was the girlfriend he’d loved for twelve years. The other was the mistress-turned-wife he’d doted on for eight.
He genuinely didn’t know which one to believe.
Olivia, trailing behind Alice, suddenly spoke up. “Chase, I can back Alice up on this.”
“I really did hear Nora and her mother scheming. They had planned to fake Gina’s death and frame Alice for it. The doctor who came in and announced Gina’s death was bribed by Nora ahead of time.
“Gina never actually died. Nora just moved her somewhere else and hid her. If you don’t believe me, go ask the hospital for Gina’s body. They won’t be able to produce it.”
Chase fell silent for a moment, thinking, then his gaze landed back on my face. “Olivia’s right. If we can just confirm whether Gina’s really dead or not, we’ll know who’s lying.”
He called the hospital director on the spot and demanded my mother’s remains,
The answer that came back stopped him cold.
“I’ve checked the morgue records several times over. There’s no body under the name Gina Sutton. Are you sure you have the right hospital?”
