Bobby finally agreed to come back after hearing William’s words, but he was still not at ease. Silas had been investigating Jacelyn’s matter for several days, but there was no news at all. Was there no progress at all?
There was no trace of Jacelyn after she disappeared that year, so wasn’t it too suspicious for her to suddenly appear now?
The key point was that Bobby had described Jacelyn as a kind and selfless person, but William felt an uneasy feeling when he met her in the hospital.
Could time really change a person?
William called Silas as he thought of this. “How’s the investigation going? Or is there no news at all?”
“Sir, I found something. Jacelyn has a twin sister named Jacqueline and they look so similar that most people can’t tell them apart.”
It turned out that she had an identical twin. William frowned and said, “So the person who caused the car accident was Jacqueline?”
“It should be. I heard that Jacelyn passed away in an accident abroad, and the Gurney family has given a lot of compensation to appease the Penhams. Jacqueline has never achieved anything in her life, so Francis specially arranged a job for her in the Gurney family’s winery. She was nowhere to be found by the time I rushed to the winery, and the people who knew her said that she had left with Miss Evelyn. No one knew where she went.”
“Jacqueline was taken away by Evelyn? Was Evelyn the one who asked Jacqueline to throw bricks at my car? Since Evelyn knew about Jacelyn and Bobby, what’s her purpose in doing this? Does she want Jacqueline to take Jacelyn’s identity and get close to Bobby?”
“I don’t know what Evelyn’s purpose is either. Isn’t she just daydreaming if she actually wants to use Jacqueline to control Bobby?”
William thought for a moment and said, “This matter will be much easier to deal with since we are sure that this woman is Jacqueline, and not Jacelyn. You can come back first.”
Azalea woke up on the operating table while the doctor was about to pump her stomach.
The process had to be carried out when Azalea was in a state of soberness and she couldn’t take any tranquilizers. If the tranquilizer was mixed with the propofol that was in her blood, it was very likely that her heart and lungs would suddenly stop and her life would be in danger.
Azalea didn’t know that they were going to pump her stomach at first and wanted to keep up her fainting act. However, Azalea couldn’t keep her act together when the doctor inserted a tube into her mouth because of nausea and pain. She opened her eyes and wanted to shout, but she couldn’t because there was a tube shoved down her throat. She wanted to struggle, but her hands and feet were strapped to the operating table.
The pain from having her stomach pumped was so excruciating that she felt as if she was on the brink of death.
Azalea felt as if the half an hour had lasted a century.
Finally, Azalea was taken down from the operating table and sent to the ward after the procedure ended.
She wanted to contact Francis immediately, but her ward was guarded and the police had come to inquire about the situation.
The police told Azalea that she had been poisoned in a murder attempt and it was fortunate that they found her in time. Otherwise, she would have died by now.
The police asked Azalea whether she had offended anyone and is she had any enemies.
Azalea felt that the people who wanted to kill her the most were Meadow and Wayne. However, she was pregnant with Michael’s child. Since they’d never tried to take her life before this, there was no reason for them to do this now.
As for the others, Azalea really couldn’t figure out who the culprit could be.
When the police saw that Azalea couldn’t think of a candidate, they showed her the surveillance video of her ward. Then, she saw that she had fainted after eating the medicine from the Gurney family’s helper.
The police told Azalea when she saw how the bodyguards packed up the food brought by the helper before taking it out of the ward, “They threw the food into the trash can. We took samples of the food you ate in the surveillance video and confirmed that the food was poisoned.”
“How is this possible? It can’t be!” Azalea did not believe that Francis would poison her, and this must be a misunderstanding.
“The netizens are spreading rumours that you are Francis’ mistress, but he has denied having anything to do with you. We hope that you can tell the truth. Do you have a romantic relationship with Francis?”
“No! Of course not!”
“Miss Clark, this is a matter that concerns your life, so I hope that you can realize how serious this is.” The policeman’s tone deepened. “We are now suspecting that you are colluding with Francis to plot against the Clark family. Now that the matter has been revealed, we’re guessing that Francis wants to kill you and silence you because he doesn’t want to take responsibility!”
“This…” Azalea’s mind was reeling. Could it be that Francis was trying to place the blame on her and kill her?
Wasn’t it said that a parent would never hurt their own child? So how could Francis be so vicious?
Her ward was guarded by Francis’ bodyguards and the people who delivered her food were Francis’ servants as well. With this, it was impossible for outsiders to poison her. Moreover, the video showed that Francis’ bodyguards had thrown away the food that was sent by the helper.
Azalea broke down. “Am I not his daughter… so how could he do this to me?! He has no reason to treat me like this.”
“Are you really Francis’ daughter? That’s impossible, isn’t it? I’m telling you, rumours on the Internet have been saying that you are Francis’ lover. Francis can rebuke these rumours as long as he admits your identity, but he has never done so. Don’t you think that it’s illogical?”
“He doesn’t want to publicly acknowledge me, and it must be because he dislikes my tainted reputation! I am really his daughter, and he even admitted it himself.”
“Miss Clark, Francis has been silent all the time and he even arranged for someone to kill you. We’re suspecting that you have nothing to do with him at all, unless you have evidence to prove that you are his daughter.”
Azalea’s thoughts began to run wild after she was questioned by the police. Could it be that she really had nothing to do with Francis?
When she thought of her voice recording from that day, she immediately took out her mobile phone and said, “I have a voice recording here from when he reconciled with me.”
The two policemen looked at each other and took the recording. Then, they handed the phone back to Azalea after they listened to it. “We’ll continue the investigation, so you can rest at ease in the meantime. We’ll protect your safety and inform you as soon as anything happens.”
Meanwhile, Francis called a lawyer to discuss the countermeasures in his villa. “I’m very worried because Frederick has been detained by the police for more than ten hours! You must find a way to bail him out!”
“We’ll try our best, but it’s a little difficult because the police have been making excuses to refuse our request.”
“I don’t care what method you use. You must bail him out safely!”
At this time, the door of the study was pushed open as soon as Francis finished speaking. Evelyn rushed in and said, “Grandpa, you’d better get someone to report all these social media accounts. They’re spreading rumours about your relationship with Azalea again!”
Francis frowned. “What did they say?”
Evelyn said angrily, “It’s even more ridiculous this time, they’re saying that Azalea is your illegitimate daughter!”