Chapter 204
No.1
"Perfect." Alexander's lips curled into a cold smile.
He'd been itching for a chance to verify the paternity of Isabella's baby.
"What do you mean?" Madeline's voice rose sharply. "Did you put Evelyn up to pushing her?"
Alexander's pupils constricted.
"She can't bear children, so she wants to rob the Kingsleys of an heir!" Madeline trembled with rage. "If anything happens to Isabella's baby, I'll make her pay!"
"Where is Evelyn?" Alexander's voice was glacial.
"You'll never find her!" Madeline wrenched her arm free.
No.2
The operating room doors burst open.
"Family of Isabella Winslow!"
The Winslows rushed forward. Madeline tried to follow, but Alexander seized her wrist.
"Let go! You ungrateful wretch!" Madeline shrieked.
Kingsley family members swarmed in, pulling them apart.
"You'd lay hands on your own grandmother for Evelyn?" Madeline sobbed.
Alexander remained unmoved. "Last chance. Where is she?"
No.3
"If Isabella suffers, I'll take half that girl's life!" Madeline screamed hysterically.
"Mother, Evelyn would never—" Eleanor Kingsley's protest was cut off.
"She pushed Isabella down the stairs!" Madeline spat. "I saw it with my own eyes!"
"The Eatons have surveillance," Patriarch Kingsley said grimly.
The footage arrived swiftly.
The video showed Isabella repeatedly grabbing at Evelyn. At the stairwell landing, she suddenly shoved Evelyn from behind.
At the last second, Evelyn caught the railing to steady herself. Isabella, however, tumbled down like a broken marionette.
No.4
"Isabella attacked first!" Patriarch Kingsley slammed his fist on a table.
Madeline paled. Slowed frames revealed Evelyn had reflexively grabbed Isabella's arm.
"She dragged Isabella down on purpose!" Madeline insisted. "Isabella was carrying a child! How could she—"
"And how couldn't she?" Alexander's eyes frosted over. "Evelyn is pregnant too. Why don't you mention that?"
The air turned to ice.
"Pregnant?" Madeline Kingsley blurted out. "How could she—"
She stopped mid-sentence.
No.5
Eleanor Kingsley gasped. "Evelyn is pregnant?"
"When did this happen?" Patriarch Kingsley's face lit up with joy. "Alex, speak up!"
Alexander Kingsley ignored their questions, his piercing gaze fixed on his grandmother. "You just demanded she repay the Kingsleys with half her life?"
Madeline turned pale.
"Will the child in her womb suffice as payment?" Alexander's voice was glacial.
"N-no..." Madeline shook her head frantically. "Why didn't you tell us sooner—"
Alexander wrenched his arm free. "If anything happens to Evelyn today, I'm severing all ties with the Kingsley family."
No.6
"Where is Evelyn?" Eleanor's voice cracked with urgency.
Madeline fumbled helplessly. "The Eatons said... they'd handle it..."
When Alexander called the Eaton residence, the butler answered proudly, "We've already reported those troublesome journalists to the police."
"You're the one who called me?" Alexander recognized the voice immediately.
"Yes, yes, that was me," the butler fawned.
"Who authorized you to involve the police?" Alexander demanded.
"I took the initiative," the butler explained hastily. "Later, the master approved—"
No.7
"Which precinct?" Alexander cut him off.
......
At the police station, a female officer was consulting her superior. "The female suspect claims she's unwell. She looks terrible. Should we send her to the hospital?"
"Where is she?" Alexander's chest tightened.
Evelyn Sinclair curled up on a chair in the temporary holding room, clutching her abdomen.
The dull ache in her lower abdomen had started when she arrived at the station. After drinking cold water, the pain intensified, spreading to her stomach in sharp spasms.
Beads of sweat formed on her forehead as her vision blurred.