Chapter 144
Author: Pen thinker
last update2026-02-11 23:33:23

At that moment, upon hearing what Madame Veronica just said and knowing fully well that this woman was clearly the type of person who could smell deception from a thousand miles away, someone who gets easily irritated when people try to play games with her intelligence, Dahlia's mother realized that she didn't have any other choice left but to tell her the complete truth.

She could see Rebecca from the corner of her eye, frantically blinking at her and shaking her head slightly, using every sig
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