Paisley looked to Garrett desperately for help.
Garrett stared at me in disbelief, never expecting I had already investigated everything.
He never imagined when I had started to suspect.
The judge spoke gravely, enunciating each word clearly:
“Paisley Thorne, real name Sage Lancaster, transferred between various orphanages, currently 30 years old…”
Hearing the judge’s words, the courtroom erupted in chaos.
“What the fuck? She looks like a little girl but she’s actually an adult woman?”
“Hey guys, have you seen that movie ‘Orphan‘?! This is totally ‘Orphan 2.0‘!”
“Just thinking about being called mommy and daddy by an adult woman every day–how disgusting is that?”
The livestream chat exploded too.
“I take back what I said about adopting her. Too terrifying.”
“Now I’m starting to feel sorry for the wife. Maybe we all misunderstood her.”
“This is fraud, right? The wife shouldn’t have to divorce over a scammer, should she?”
Garrett’s eyes widened in shock.
“She… she isn’t…”
He stammered for a long time before pointing at Paisley and cursing:
“How dare you deceive us! How could you be so malicious?”
“This is called fraud, you know that?”
“You got pregnant by some other man and tried to frame my wife for it. I almost really divorced her!”
He turned to look at me pleadingly:
“Honey, why didn’t you tell me earlier?”
“If you’d told me sooner, I wouldn’t have been fooled by her for so long.”
“Now the truth is out. We’ll never adopt again. Just the two of us living happily together forever would be great.”
My mother–in–law rolled her eyes unsympathetically.
“Vera, why didn’t you investigate properly when we adopted her? Now you’re blaming my son–don’t you think he’s pretty innocent too?”
Others began chiming in, trying to persuade me.
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“Yeah, the man didn’t know the truth. Someone who’s good to his adopted daughter can’t be that bad–hearted.”
“I think the wife should forgive the husband. The real culprit in this divorce case is this woman with both physical and mental
problems.”
“You two spouses can work together to make this pervert compensate you for all these years of losses.”
I looked at Paisley and snorted coldly.
“Your man abandoned you without hesitation when it mattered. Are you still going to protect him?”
Paisley stood there in stunned pallor, biting her lips tightly but saying nothing.
The gallery stirred restlessly.
“What the hell? What does ‘her man‘ mean?”
“WTF, it can’t be… what I’m thinking, right?!”
The livestream erupted with virtual gifts and comments.
“Please tell us the truth, Madam! I’m begging on my knees!!”
“I can’t leave this livestream anymore, someone save me.”
“If there’s another twist, I swear I’ll rank this as one of the year’s most bizarre cases.”
Garrett nervously raised his voice.
“Honey, what… what are you talking about? I don’t understand.”
“Did Paisley, that bitch, tell you something strange? Don’t believe her.”
I sighed.
I had clearly wanted to save his face, but he said he didn’t need it.
I looked to the judge and requested:
“Your Honor, please release the photos and videos I took, along with the truth of my investigation.”
At this moment, my mother, who had been silent, stood up with a cold expression.
“Vera Sinclair, enough!”
“This farce ends here. Garrett will divorce you and choose to leave with nothing. You can drop the lawsuit.”
“If you keep making a scene, don’t blame me for really disowning you as my daughter.”
My calm expression finally showed some emotion.
My eyes welled up as I looked at my mother.
I had witnessed firsthand the hardship my mother endured raising me alone.
So I had never defied her, except when I married Garrett,
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I couldn’t understand why my mother, who had always doted on me, would firmly stand behind Paisley.
Until that day when Harrison laid the investigated truth before me…
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