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But Simon knew that pendant. Elsa had always tied it with that same red string. The moment he saw her fingers brush against it, his mind betrayed him, dragging him back to the ruins of his childhood–back to the
warmth of clinging to Lizzy, to her light, to her sunshine. No matter her faults, in his heart she had always been the best girl in the world. He couldn’t bear to see her suffer.
Tearing his gaze from the string, his jaw tightened as though it might break. He ground out hismand at Lily. “Apologize!”
“Sir…”
Before the weight of his order could settle, the butler stepped forward holding a tablet.
James didn’t even nce at it. His voice was calm, but edged with steel. “Show him. Let him see exactly what kind of filth his precious Elsa really is.”
“Yes, sir.”
The butler inclined his head respectfully, then walked directly to Simon and held the screen before him.
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Simon frowned in confusion, his phoenix–like eyes mirroring James’s, clouded with suspicion.
“Please watch,” the butler said evenly.
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Still uncertain, Simon cast a quick nce at James before lowering his eyes to the screen.
The footage was crystal clear. He saw Lily at the sink, quietly washing her hands.
Then Elsa appeared.
The high resolution left nothing to doubt–the flicker of malice in her gaze, the way she lightened her steps to avoid making noise, her careful angle to stay out of the mirror’s reflection. She crept closer, closer, until she stood directly behind Lily.
Her lips curved with poisonous triumph. Convinced Lily had no chance of escape, certain the child in her belly would be lost, she raised her hand and shoved with all her strength.
Simon’s heart jolted. Though Lily stood before him now, unharmed, watching that moment unfold on the screen still gripped him with icy dread.
But Lily had sensed danger. She sidestepped swiftly,
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Elsa, caught off bnce by her own force, mmed into the sink herself, doubled over in agony. Lily had turned, seized her hair, and dealt her two perfectly even ps.
The video cut out.
Simon stood frozen, as if his soul had been ripped from his body.
He had already seen Elsa disgrace herself once before, in the theater. It had devastated him then, overturning everything he thought he knew. But afterward she had shown remorse, again and again. She had even tried to kill herself, wrists slit open, because she imed she couldn’t forgive herself for hurting Lily.
Yes—people rarely changed. But she was Lizzy. His Lizzy. The girl who had given him warmth when he needed it most. If she said she would change, he had wanted to believe her.
But all of it–her remorse, her vows, her tears–had been lies.
She had schemed again. She had tried to kill Lily’s child.
And he… he had been her fool. Again.
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His chest heaved with shock and agony, disbelief burning through him like acid.
James’s voice cut across his thoughts like a de. “Simon. Apologize to Lily.”
Mary’s words followed sharp and merciless. “Immediately. Apologize to Lily!”
Her fury trembled through her voice. “I should get a paternity test. How could I, Mary, have given birth to such an idiot?”
“Jamie, tomorrow you’re going with me. We’re testing him too!”
Simon’s resemnce to Jamie was undeniable, but Mary’s rage left no room for reason.
“He’s definitely your son, not mine,” she snapped. “I’ll do the test myself. I swear, I think you swapped my child for some bastard you had with another woman!”
“You-!”
Jamie nearly choked on his frustration. He had never touched another woman in his life–his body, his heart, all of it belonged to Mary.
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But with his wife spitting venom at him, he could only re harder at their idiot son. Heshed out with a kick. “You just love causing trouble for us, don’t you? Apologize to Lily!”
This time Simon didn’t dodge. The kicknded squarely, knocking thest of his defenses loose. His eyes half- lowered, his voice empty, as though in a waking nightmare.
“Lizzy… didn’t you say the theater incident was a mistake? That you regretted it? That you would make it right? You promised you’d never again frame or hurt anyone. So why? Why were you creeping up behind Lily, plotting to kill the child she’s carrying?!”