The butler shook his head and said, “No, it hasn’t been verified. But after hearing the news from the servant of the Davis family, I felt strange and checked Azalea’s background again. Then, I found something wrong.”
After hearing this, Francis looked at the butler quietly and waited for him to continue.
The housekeeper gasped for breath and said. “I heard that Azalea is the daughter of Madelyn and the Clark’s family’s driver. After the death of the Clark family’s driver, the Clark family gave Madelyn a large sum of money as compensation. Well, Madelyn could raise Azalea on her own after getting the money, but she did not keep Azalea by her side. Instead, she left Azalea behind in the Clark family. Madelyn is quite indifferent woards Azalea, but Madelyn’s sister, Emily, who had no blood relationship with Azalea, treated Azalea very well and regarded her as her own child.”
Francis asked in return, “Emily? Are you talking about Callum’s ex-girlfriend?”
“Yes! Emily and Madelyn are not related by blood, and she hates Madelyn very much. Well, Emily has no reason to treat Madelyn’s illegitimate daughter this well. However, Emily has always taken care of Azalea well, so I have a guess of my own. Could Azalea not been Madelyn’s child, but Emily’s daughter instead?”
After that, Francis continued to ask, “If your guess is true, then it means that what the servant said was correct.. This also explains why the Davis family thinks highly of Azalea, even though she doesn’t have a wealthy family supporting her.” “That’s right! That’s what I think. Hence, I came back immediately to tell you about this matter.” Wayne muttered to himself, “However, if Azalea is really the eldest daughter of the Floyd family, why are they treating her so coldly?”
“In fact, the Floyd family treated Azalea very well before. Furthermore, they once allowed her to be the spokesperson of the family, but I don’t know why they suddenly cancelled the plans.”
“Hmm, I still think something isn’t right here. If Azalea is the eldest daughter of the Floyd family, who is Angel?” Francis asked.
The butler immediately replied, “I think that the case with Angel is weird too. After all, the Floyd family used to spoil her a lot, but they suddenly kicked her out of the family for some reason. Hmm, I think that Angel isn’t one of the daughters of the Floyd family. If that was true, the Floyd family wouldn’t have kicked her out.”
“What? This whole incidend is just weird! How could Angel not be one of the daughters of the Floyd family? How did she become part of the family in the first place?”
“Could it be that someone swapped the babies?” The butler guessed.
“Huh? Who swapped them? In fact, who can swap the children of the Floyd family under their own eyes?” Francis asked.
“This… well…” The butler couldn’t explain it clearly. After a while, he said, “Could it be that they were swapped when she was born in the hospital?”
“This is just your guess, isn’t it? You don’t have any evidence.” Francis asked in return.
“It is just my guess, but there’s something strange about this, Mr. Gurney. After all, after the Floyd family chased Angel out, she has been taking care of Madelyn. So, I think this situation is weird.”
“It’s very strange indeed. Angel is not the eldest daughter of the Floyd family, but I don’t think Azalea is a child of the Floyd family. Let’s continue to investigate this matter. However, we need to be careful of how we probe into this incident because we don’t want to alert anyone.”
On the other hand, at half-past eleven in the evening, Madelyn pushed open the door of a pharmacy that was open for 24 hours and sneaked in while wearing a pair of sunglasses.
Meanwhile, there was only one shop assistant on duty in the pharmacy. Thus, Madelyn wandered around the pharmacy for a while and then walked to the shop assistant before asking softly, “Do you sell medicine for abortion here?”
The shop assistant was stunned after hearing this. She looked at Madelyn cautiously and shook her head before answering, “No!”
“I can pay a high price. Can you sell it to me?” Madelyn asked.
“No, abortion medicine can only be issued by authorised personnel, so you can only find them in hospitals. We don’t sell them at all.”
Madelyn had asked several pharmacy shops about this, but they all said the same thing. Thus, she felt troubled by this. If she could go to the hospital to buy this medicine, would she still come to ask about this in a pharmacy?
After that, Madelyn continued to ask the shop assistant, “Can you get it for me? As long as you can get it, I will really pay a high price to buy it.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter what price you can pay. There are laws on this medicine, so we can’t sell it.”
“Then do you know what medicine can stop her pregnancy?” Madelyn saw the salesgirl looking at her cautiously, and she immediately added, “I have a rebellious daughter, and a man with a a family cheated on his wife and slept with her. Now she is pregnant, and she doesn’t care that she has a family and wants to marry that man. Whatever I say is useless now! Alas! I don’t want her to destroy other people’s family, and I don’t want her to be ruined at such a young age, so I think I can first get rid of the baby in her belly…”
After hearing Madelyn’s words, the shop assistant felt a little sympathy for her and thought Madelyn was a good person. “It’s easy to get into trouble if you take medicine to kill the fetus. It’s better for you to go to the hospital to do an operation or ask the doctor to prescribe you some medicine.”
“I want to take her to the hospital, but she doesn’t want to listen to me. Alas! I had no other ideas, so I had to resort to this.”
Madelyn said pitifully. Then, the shop assistant hesitated for a moment before saying, “Give her food that will lower the body’s temperature instead.”
“I’ve already tried everything I could think of! I’ve given her bitter gourd, barley and any other food possible, but it’s useless! I’m so troubled right now. What should I do if she really gives birth to this child?”
“Then let us eat some other medicine then,” The lady hesitated for a moment and said, “Let’s give her some motherwort, ergot, oxytocin, and trichosanthin.”
Madelyn was overjoyed when she heard this. “Then you should sell them to me!”
However, the shop assistant was worried that something terrible would happen, so she waved her hand and said, “No, now that I know the truth, I will only make the situation worse by selling it to you. If you want to do this, you should buy these herbs from another shop. However, I need to remind you. After taking these herbs, your body will be weaker. So, I think you should prepare yourself in case something happens.”
After that, Madelyn thanked the shop assistant and left. Then, she went to another pharmacy to buy medicine and hurried back to the apartment where she and Angel stayed.
On the other hand, Angel had already fallen asleep. When she heard Madelyn coming back, she got up and opened the door to scold her.
“Where did you go in the middle of the night? Did you go and do some shady business again?”
“No! What can I do now? I just met an acquaintance and forgot the time because we were chatting.” Madeline felt guilty, so she could only smile while lying.
Obviously, Angel did not believe Madelyn’s words. So, she scolded her by saying, “Hah! Do you think I’m a fool? How dare you say that? I’m warning you, you should better behave yourself in front of me. If I find out what you did behind my back, I’ll kill you mercilessly!”
After scolding Madelyn, Angel went back to her room and continued to sleep. Meanwhile, Madelyn also went back to her room.
Ever since Angel got pregnant and after the Floyd family had driven her out, she had gotten even more emotional. In fact, she would offend scold and humiliate Madelyn.
However, Madelyn couldn’t talk back at all because Angel would scold her even more fiercely.
Therefore, she could not hesitate right now. Instead, she had to take action as soon as possible.