Chapter 355


    Leonora felt her heart shatter at the desperate cry for help. Tears streamed down her cheeks at that


    very moment.


    She had barely settled into the car when she dialed a number. "I''ve got to save Heidi. Help me


    figure out a way."


    In the grand hall of a mansion, a man d in ck sat in a wheelchair, his face twisted with


    malevolence. "Stick to your own business, don''t throw us off bnce, and follow my lead."


    Leonora''s fingers, clenching the phone, turned ghostly white. "You promised me that you wouldn''t


    hurt her. Now she''s locked up and being tormented daily. If this goes on, she''ll die."


    The man''s eyes were shadowed, his voice icy. "If it weren''t for her fooling around abroad, she''d be


    Ian’s wife by now. Would we be in this mess? Don''t forget your role, Leonora. If you can''t secure


    your position in the Hayes family, you can kiss Heidi goodbye."


    Leonora gritted her teeth. "What if ra is carrying a Hayes heir? Will you still stand by and let her


    give birth?"


    At this, the man''s expression darkened further. "Are you certain?"


    "Pretty much."


    After a brief silence, the man spoke coldly, "Follow my orders, and don''t make a move without my


    say-so."


    Hanging up on the dial tone, Leonora''s face twisted with resolve. She would save Heidi, and she


    had no intention of sparing ra either!ConTEent bel0ngs to N?v(e)lD/rama(.)Org .


    However, as soon as she returned home, Ian blocked her at the front gate. Exhaustion etched his


    face, but his eyes held an undeniable fierceness.


    He handed her a video on his phone, his voice cold. "You knew ra was Aunt May''s daughter.


    Why did you frame her?"


    Leonora cursed inwardly as she watched herself and Eve in the video. She thought she had taken


    care of the café''s surveince footage. How had Ian found it?


    Feigning ignorance, she retorted, "Aunt May''s child is Heidi, not that bitch ra! I just told Eve she


    wasn''t Casey''s daughter. When did I say she was May’s daughter?"


    Ian''s lips twitched at her feignedposure. "If you knew nothing, why were you so calm when you


    heard this news?"


    Leonora blinked, and there was a flicker of panic in her dark eyes. Her fists clenched involuntarily. "I


    was just shocked... How is ra May''s child?"


    "That''s a question for you, since it was your trusted carer who threw her into the river."


    "That''s absurd! May was my best friend. How could I harm her child? I was at home in confinement


    when May had her ident, and my carer was with me the whole time."


    Ian''s eyes grew colder as he pulled out a ne. "Do you recognize this?"


    Leonora''s panic was evident at the sight of the ne. "That... I designed that for May''s daughter


    as a token of yourmitment to her. How did it end up with you?"


    Ian watched her unsessfully try to hide her panic, his tone nonchnt. "Aunt May clutched this


    ne tightly as she died. I think she wanted to convey a message that surely involves you, am I


    right?"