“Elena Bush?”
The woman murmured, something crossed her mind quickly and her face followed the memory with a wary look, “You’re Elena Bush, the daughter Edward Ford has been talking about lately!?”
“You know me ?”
“Yes ……” the woman said with a sarcastic look on her lips, “More than that! I’d know you in a million pieces!”
She lifted her face and finally recognised her, “Yes, that’s your face, it looks exactly like the woman Edward Ford loves, no wonder he cares so much about you, no wonder ……”
Elena Bush narrowed her eyes warily, “Who are you? Why are you here again?”
“Me?”
“Right.”
The woman smiled and sat down on the floor as if she thought this was a prison cell, “I’m just a bitter woman who happened to have eyes like hers and was brought here, and thanks to those eyes I got this huge place and the money to take care of my family for the rest of my life… …”
She was clearly smiling, but Elena Bush could see the sadness in her eyes.
Seeing this, she couldn’t help but tighten her brow, “If you don’t want to, then why did you say yes? You could have left ……”
“No promise?”
The woman laughed even more, “What do I have to say no to? I have servants here, beautiful clothes, money and jewellery and cosmetics I could never afford in my life, why wouldn’t I?”
“But I saw you begging Edward Ford the other day, begging him to let you go!”
There was a thunderous bang!
The taut string in the woman’s heart instantly went off, and she turned her head mechanically to look at her, “When did you see that? What did you see?”
Elena Bush pursed her lips, “Saw …… you begging him ……”
“That was just a whim, it can’t be taken seriously.”
“But if you want to leave I might be able to help you!” She said nervously.
For some reason, perhaps the sight of her reminded her of Joanna Lake in general, and her heart couldn’t help but follow a flash of compassion, and she couldn’t watch her like this, or perhaps it was the day she had promised Joanna Lake in her dream ……
Whatever the case, she wanted to help her!
The woman laughed even more, but her body sprang up with a quickness and grabbed her hand, “You can really help me!?”
Elena Bush met her eyes with a hint of expectation and nodded, “Yes!”
“Then ……”
The woman was just about to speak when she didn’t know what had occurred to her again, she couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Forget it, there’s nothing I can ask you to help, if you really want to help me, just admit Edward Ford as your dad, I can see that he might really want to treat you well.”
“So why are you locked up here? Even if you’re Edward Ford’s underground lover you’re still free, so why ……”
“What does that have to do with you!?” The woman said fiercely, “Let me advise you, get out of here now and don’t give me any more trouble!”
Elena Bush gritted her teeth, “Are you willing to do that!?”
As a woman, she even saw that her dignity was gone, was it that important for money?
“What do you know? You don’t know anything!”
“I don’t know what you could have told me.” Elena Bush stepped forward and held her hand tightly, “I’m genuinely trying to help you, I’m not joking or teasing you ……”
“That’s enough!”
The woman waved her hand away, “I’ve heard enough of that and I’m tired of hearing it.”
Elena Bush’s pupils jolted and she couldn’t help but look at her immediately, vaguely guessing what was going on, “Are you saying that someone before me …… was trying to help you too?”
“No.”
She just didn’t think she could get away with it.
The woman smiled miserably, “Don’t worry, no woman for Edward Ford will last more than three months, three months is enough time for him to wake up to the fact that I’m not her, and then, he’ll go and find another woman to replace her ……”
Another woman ……
Once again the maid’s words swirled in Elena Bush’s mind, making her think immediately.
Yes, she was not the only woman like her, there were others ……
The woman didn’t seem to notice her sudden change of face as she continued, “I was brought here by him from G City, adding up to what seems to have been ……”
The woman stopped mid-sentence and looked over at her for a moment.
Elena Bush stared at her the same way and couldn’t help but take a few steps back and shake her head, “You’ve been with him, how many months?”
“Four …… four months ……” the woman looked shocked as she tried to remember, “How is that possible! It’s been four months, how is he still ……”
“Do you know why?” Elena Bush looked at her terrified eyes and they followed suit, mostly red.
The woman looked up and muttered, “Why?”
“Maybe …… you are more like Joanna Lake than I thought …… you were, others are just a little bit similar, and how can others be leave in three months and you stayed until now with a pair of eyes? ”
She seemed to have a similar nature to her, and even heard her say that she wasn’t making too many waves when she said she was taking her away.
It made even her heart rise with an odd feeling, and Edward Ford’s attitude, and her reaction, vaguely confirmed something for her.
Edward Ford had always been looking for a woman who resembled Joanna Lake, whether in looks or otherwise, and she …… was the ‘Joanna Lake’ Edward Ford couldn’t live without at the moment ……
Elena Bush’s words instantly woke her up, causing a gradual tinge of fear to creep into the bottom of her eyes.
“No, it can’t be.” The woman shook her head.
Edward Ford was just looking into her eyes, she could leave, she could go back to her parents ……
Elena Bush held the small of her back and slowly squatted down in front of her, “What’s your name?”
“Claudia Garcia ……”
“Claudia?”
Elena Bush smiled, “Your name suits your character.”
Claudia Garcia immediately looked at her with a chilling look in her eyes, “What do your words mean!?”
Elena Bush took a deep breath and suddenly said, “I remember my adoptive father mentioning something to me once, he said …… that I was too utilitarian, too vicious and too hateful, and that apart from looking like her, I couldn’t learn her gentle and generous nature at all ……”
She said, her eyes turning once more to land impartially on her, “I think …… that she, and you …… are really very much alike.”
“We’re not alike! I’m Claudia Garcia, I’m not some Joanna Lake!” she shook a hand off hard and stumbled to her feet, “I’ve been a substitute for too long and now I’m being told I look more and more like her? So am I Claudia Garcia or Joanna Lake?”
With that, she couldn’t help but laugh a little at her own ridiculousness.
Elena Bush swooped in and clutched her hand, speaking again firmly, “Miss Garcia, do you believe me? If you believe, I can take you away and give you your freedom ……”