You’ll Fall For Me, Today Or Tomorrow Chapter 404


    You wish her a horrible death?


    Jacque was momentarily stunned by her words. Sandra finally could not hold it in any longer and


    berated Ka.


    “Ka, will you shut the hell up? Do you know who’s the rissa you’re badmouthing right now? She’s


    your biological daughter for goodness sake!”


    The air grew still after Sandra’s grand revtion.


    However, Ka and her husband looked puzzled before they burst into augh.


    “Are you kidding me, Sandra? I only have Shermaine, and James is my only man. When have I ever


    given birth to another child? Sandra, even if you do not fancy me that much, how could you spur such


    lies?”


    Sandra merely cast a nce at Shermaine. This little minx really knows how to put up an excellent act.


    After knowing the truth, Sandra had been ruminating over everything that had happened in the past,


    and she was positive that Shermaine had known it all along. It was just that the woman was sly enough


    to feign ignorance in the matter.


    Sandra retracted her using gaze at Shermaine after she calmed down and took a seat.


    Since Sandra had revealed the truth, Jacque could only sigh heavily.


    “This was a result of a grave mistake years ago. rissa and Shermaine had been exchanged at birth.


    The truth is, rissa is your daughter, and as for Shermaine, well, she’s actually the Quigleys’


    daughter.”


    “What? That’s impossible. No, this can’t be true!”


    Ka widened her eyes in disbelief as she repeatedly shook her head in denial. At the same time, she


    clutched onto Shermaine’s hands tightly.


    Shermaine appeared thunderstruck after the revtion. However, she quickly regained herposure


    as she knitted her brows in confusion.


    Sandra snorted in response. “Nothing is impossible. It’s fine if you don’t believe in me. Just do a DNA


    test to confirm.”


    “Fine. Let’s go test it right now.”


    Ka was about to dash for the door. However, Hannah was listening intently aside. She was


    bbergasted at the revtion, and it took her a while before she let out a shriek.


    “Is that true?”


    Hannah cast a nce at Sandra, and her daughter-inw nodded her head. “Yes, I did the DNA test for


    rissa and them both. She’s their daughter.”


    “What? When did you do it?”


    Sandra replied dryly, “When you chastised her as your nemesis.”


    Ka shook her head to dismiss the notion. “No, that’s impossible. You guys must have mistaken


    about it. Shermaine, let’s go do another test right now. Let them know that you’re my daughter…”


    The news came as a bolt out of blue for Ka.


    It was thest thing that she imagined could happen to her and her husband.


    Hence, she kept insisting that they had gotten it wrong. However, James looked grim as he was not as


    optimistic as his wife on their way to do the DNA test.


    His thought strayed afar as he thought about rissa, then about rissa, and finally Hry.


    So, this means that Shermaine is Hry’s daughter?


    James could never forget the vicious look in Hry’s eyes after he had rejected her. It was a


    threatening look, vowing to make him pay dearly for his choice.


    So, did Hry swap their daughters’ identities as revenge against him?


    With the thought in mind, he was almost convinced that Sandra was right, and he did not know how to


    face Shermaine right then.


    Shermaine noticed the subtle change in her father’s attitude and was taken aback as she fidgeted


    nervously.


    James sighed to himself and said nothing further.


    The DNA test result would require a few days. They found a contact, but even then they also needed


    one whole day before they could produce the result.


    The husband and wife stayed together apprehensively as they waited.


    The pin-drop silence was deafening. They decided it was best for all of them to keep quiet.


    Meanwhile, rissa had no idea that Sandra had revealed everything.


    She was restingnguidly, seemingly paying no interest to anything.


    Matthew would take the time to tell her stories, let her listen to some prenatal music, and even speak a


    myriad of foreignnguages to the baby still in her belly.


    Damian would stay closely by rissa’s side after getting back from school. Like his father, the little


    boy greeted his little sister every morning as he spoke to her. The father and son had made it a habit to


    talk to rissa’s belly.


    However, rissa still felt nothing.


    Then, the Smallwoods suddenly paid a visit to her.


    Surprisingly, she did not feel asggard.


    At the time, she was lying leisurely on Matthew’sp as she listened to him reciting famous poems to


    the baby with his perfect ent.


    rissa sat upright while Matthew furrowed his brows at the news of the uninvited guests.


    “We’re not going to meet them.”


    “Yes, we are,” rissa said.


    Perhaps she had sensed something.


    Matthew apanied her downstairs. Not only were the Smallwoods there, Sandra and Jacque were


    downstairs too.


    However, Shermaine was nowhere to be seen.


    Sandra spoke first at the sight of rissa as she felt guilty for spilling the beans.


    “Sorry, rissa. I identally let the cat out of the bag on an impulse.”


    rissa nodded her head to acknowledge her.


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    She did not meet the Smallwoods’ eyes. Things wereplicated, to say the least.


    They looked quite devastated, which could mean that they could not grapple with the truth.


    rissa merely spoke to Sandra and Jacque.


    Sandra asked out of concern, “Are you doing okay? You don’t seem too well. Are you affected by those


    vicious remarks out there? Don’t worry, the truth will surface soon enough. You’re going to be alright,


    rissa.”


    “No, I don’t really pay attention to what they’re saying. It doesn’t matter anyway since I’ve heard much


    more nasty things than these.”


    Her words sent chills down Ka’s spine as all colors drained from thetter’s face. The woman was


    apprehensive of the confrontation.


    Ka recalled her words of wishing death upon rissa, and tears brimmed in her eyes. Then, she


    slumped in her husband’s embrace and sobbed, seemingly paying no heed that they were in fact at


    someone else’s ce.


    “Why… James… How did everything turn out like this?”


    James patted his wife on her back to soothe her. However, Ka broke into a violent sob as she burst


    out crying.


    rissa knitted her brows, not out of worry, but rather out of annoyance.


    Sandra could not help but reprimand the duo, “That’s enough, both of you. I told you guys not toe


    but you insisted to follow. Not only did you guys say nothing, but now you’re crying? It’s not like


    rissa has asked you guys here because she has something to say. You guys are the ones with


    something to say, remember? If you guys have nothing to say, you’d better leave right now.”


    rissa said nothing as Sandra lectured her birth parents.


    Ka looked at rissa with misty eyes and was about to say something before she covered her


    mouth and broke into another bout of violent sob.


    Meanwhile, James gave rissa aplicated look.


    “This whole thing might be Hry’s doing. We had no idea all these years. You’ve suffered all these


    years.”


    “I’ve suffered nothing. I have a family. My father and Grandma love me. I’m happy.”


    Well, at least she’s happy.


    James wanted to say something but decided against it in the end. He averted his gaze and dared not


    look into rissa’s eyes.


    “Shermaine… She’s innocent. She’s also been toyed by fate.”


    “Okay.”


    rissa did not seem at all surprised that James and Ka would think so.


    Sandra retorted, “She’s innocent? Maybe she was, but she should have known the moment sheid


    eyes on rrisa. Not only did she keep quiet about the matter, but she also hired an assassin to


    murder someone. Are the two of you really oblivious to how vicious she is, or are you refusing to


    believe the truth?”


    “That’s impossible. Shermaine is innocent. Besides, how could she know anything about it?”


    Ka stopped crying and started to defend Shermaine.


    “You guys are… idiots.”


    Sandra cast a nervous nce over at rissa. She was afraid that thetter might be distressed over


    having birth parents who chose to side with Shermaine. rissa’s reaction proved that she was


    overthinking the matter.


    She did not seem at all saddened by Ka and James’ reaction. Instead, she looked impassive and


    unfazed as if she had already seen iting.


    “No, they’re just children. They’re all innocent. But we’ve raised Shermaine for over twenty years…


    We…”


    “Enough.”


    rissa finally voiced out, albeit sounding annoyed.


    “All right, I will note that you guys are aware of this. Just leave if you guys have nothing else to say.


    Just go on with your lives as always. I’m rissa Quigley, and I’ve got nothing to do with you guys.”


    “rissa, you cannot…”


    Sandra wanted to talk her out of it but rissa had already stood up while Matthew ordered with a


    dangerously low voice, “Mrs. Lawson, please see our guests out.”


    Then, Matthew steadied rissa back upstairs. It was clear as day that he was chasing them out the


    door.


    “The two of you are to be med for all of these. You guys only think for Shermaine, but have you ever


    considered how your very own flesh and blood would feel? Do you guys really have no idea who’s


    more important?”


    At the sight of their ignorant demeanor, Sandra boiled with fury and chided them.


    Then, she decided to give up on ever talking sense into the two and turned around to leave.


    Ka and James left the Zen Hignds afterward. Ka heaved a sigh of relief after getting into the


    car.


    “James, judging by rissa’s reaction, do you think she’ll allow Shermaine to continue being our


    daughter?”


    James had clearly sensed rissa’s apparent disdain and exasperation at them.


    It was a rather inexplicable feeling.


    Ka, on the other hand, was quite pleased.


    “Actually, she’s all grown up and already married, even. I don’t think she needs us any longer. To be


    honest, I can’t help but recall how Shermaine has suffered thanks to her all these years. I just can’t


    hide my dislike toward her, and it makes me really ufortable to know that she’s our daughter.


    James, do you think we can just pretend that nothing happened and we just carry on with our lives?”


    James looked at his wife and rejected her suggestion.


    “Ka, she’s our daughter!”


    Ka appeared conflicted. “B-but Shermaine is our daughter too. We raised her, James. I just can’t let


    that go.”


    “I’m not asking you to disown her. Shermaine doesn’t have family, and we’re going to be her


    family. But, we can have two daughters. In time, I think the two sisters will reconcile.”


    It was what James for hoping for, anyway.