“I had Sophia start negotiations as soon as we got the news. Once this phase passes, the money will be transferred.”
“You would’ve been fine anyway, so why put on this act?”
How could anyone risk their dignity and life just to act?!
I stood there frozen, staring in disbelief at the man I had loved since I was young.
But even after my tears ran dry, Lucas’s expression didn’t change.
He only vaguely blamed me for disrupting his charity event.
Eventually, I was wrapped in a blanket and taken away.
Sophia pretended to care.
She deliberately loosened her scarf, revealing hickeys on her neck.
“Aren’t you curious why your parents didn’t save you?”
“Isn’t it strange that Lucas suddenly changed so much?”
“Because… you’re not the Carter family’s daughter at all!”
She told me her parents were nearly driven insane with worry the day they received the ransom letter.
They said they would spare no cost, even bankruptcy, to save me.
But Lucas stopped them.
He showed them a paternity test.
He said I was just a fake—switched at birth by the nanny.
The real Miss Carter had already died from the nanny’s abuse.
Those words made her parents stop trying to rescue her.
The Carter family’s cherished daughter—