The Wrong Woman
Chapter 214

Nathan walked into the study. He invited Loretta to sit on the lounge chair and began seriously questioning her.

"Have you seen Chubs at all during the ten years she was abroad, Madam Hoffis?"

"No," she replied. "She was extremely occupied with her studies and had no time to return to the country. But we do talk on the phone."

"What about video calls?"

"Those were quite rare."

"At what point did you notice that she looked a bit different?"

Loretta was puzzled by his questioning. She nervously sat closer to him and asked, "Why are you asking me all this?"

He pursed his lips and thought for a moment. "Just answer me truthfully. I want to know more about Chubs."

Upon hearing that he was interested in her granddaughter, she was overjoyed and began telling him everything.

"It was probably three years ago. We hadn't made a video call to her in a year or two. When we finally did, her chubby face was so much thinner. Her grandfather and I were so heartbroken." She continued, "But she didn't like how young she looked, so she went to get some minor procedures done to her face. That and being busy from work had worn her out so much."

Nathan was bewildered. "Was your daughter-in-law also in the same video?"

"Yeah. My son, my daughter-in-law, and my adopted son, Oliver. They were having Thanksgiving dinner and called to say hi."

He stilled. He finally understood why Zach and Loretta never questioned Sally Hoffis's true identity.

The phony appeared in the same frame as Chubs' parents.

Nathan asked again, "How were their reactions? Was there anything bad? Were they nervous, uptight... Or were they unhappy?"

Loretta's face fell. She thought about it for a while before shaking her head. "It's been too long. I can't remember."

"How many of these calls have you guys made?"

Loretta's face was covered in wrinkles. Her eyes watered as she choked, "I don't know if they knew what was going to happen. Her parents frequently made video calls to me that month. They even said Sally would be good to Zach and me when she returned.

"Not even a month later, I received the news of their deaths. By the time we rushed back to Sunterland, I was only able to see their gravestones."

She started crying as she spoke.

He panicked and hurriedly handed her some tissues. He couldn't bring himself to make her go through those depressing events again.

However, she couldn't stop. She carried on by herself woefully, "Sally is a poor child. She lost her parents so abruptly that we couldn't do anything but bring her back to the country.

"Maybe losing both her parents was too traumatic for her. She became stubborn and depressed. She was indolent and didn't care for the family business, let alone help her grandfather manage it.

She wiped away her tears and said, "Zach and I don't want this grand inheritance to fall into the hands of Oliver. If you and Sally get married, we'll feel at ease and leave the Hoffis family business in your hands."

The inheritance of the Hoffis family?

Upon hearing this, Nathan understood that Oliver was conspiring with a shadow organization to nab this massive amount of wealth.

The answer was now out in the open.

Now, the best way to protect Chubs was to let her remain in this safe position. Then, he would have to look for her parents' whereabouts.

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