“The child belongs to me. I am her only mother. No matter what, I will never sign this agreement!”
Once she finished speaking, Eliana got up and forced them out.
Her strong response made Bryson’s face turn cold immediately.
He swung his arm, sending Eliana to the ground. Her arm was torn open with a wound over ten centimeters long, blood flowing out nonstop.
A slight ache passed through Bryson’s eyes, but he still said in a firm tone. “I came here today to tell you, not to discuss anything.”
“If you refuse to sign, you won’t be able to carry out today’s funeral.”
Right after he spoke, the bodyguards at the door entered and started breaking things in sight.
They were about to ruin the younger brother’s memorial tablet.
Eliana felt both pain and anger, her eyes turning red. “Enough, I sign! I sign!”
The one who passed was respected; this was her younger brother’s final quiet. She had to protect it.
It was only an agreement. After a week, she would bring her daughter and go far away.
This agreement was only a useless piece of paper.
Eliana picked up the agreement, her hand shaking without control as she wrote her name.
Seeing Eliana like this, Bryson felt a strange pain in his heart.
He bent down, softly trying to comfort her.
“Eliana, don’t worry. I will buy the best grave place in the capital for your younger brother, just take it as compensation for your brother-in-law.”
Eliana’s tears fell into the cracks on the ground, her lower lip, and she bit, and even started to bleed.
The person had already passed; what was the point of doing this?
Give a hit and then give something after?
She did not want it.
She lifted her eyes and looked at the man, clearly the same one from her memory who once placed her first in everything.
But Eliana understood that there was no future for them anymore.
Bryson reached what he wanted, then left together with Althea.
And Eliana stayed beside her younger brother through the night.
When the night grew deep and quiet, the phone beside her kept ringing. It was messages sent again and again by Althea to upset her.
There were images of Bryson spending a lot of money on her during the auction.
There were also pictures of them finishing a box of condoms in one night.
And photos of both of them without clothes, in many positions.
In the past, Eliana always thought Bryson was distant; only now she realized that the reason he was like that was because of her.
At the start, Eliana still felt pain, but later she turned completely numb.
In any case, she no longer cared; Bryson could do anything he wanted.
But she saved screenshots of everything; all of it would serve as evidence in court later to leave Bryson with nothing.
Eliana stayed up through the night, and the next morning she received a call from her supervisor to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She was a forensic doctor, and whenever there were suspicious deaths, she needed to go inspect the body.
This time was the same, but different from before; the body was an infant, around four years old, judging by the condition.
At the start, Eliana could still calmly handle the remains, restore the appearance, and analyze the cause of death.
Only after spotting the lucky charm on the baby’s neck did Eliana freeze in place.
Four years earlier, before Hera was born, she had also bought the same lucky charm.
Afterward, Bryson claimed it had gone missing in the hospital and was never recovered.
But now, that same lucky charm appeared before her, hanging on a child’s body.
Eliana’s arm went stiff, and a chill ran through her whole body.
A terrifying thought quickly filled her mind.
Was this dead child actually hers?
If this lifeless baby was her own, then what about Hera?
