s so smeared she looked like a demon straight from hell. “She did it on purpose,
she tried to kill our baby! Mav, she’s not dumb at all! She’s been faking it!!”
Maverick froze, whipping his head toward me.
acted as though I didn’t understand Sophia’s accusation.
Terrified by the blood, I kept crying and wailing. “Blood, blood, Mona’s scared…
Miss, don’t jump, Mona doesn’t want to see flowers anymore, please don’t jump…”
Maverick watched me sobbing uncontrollably.
Listening carefully to my jumbled words, he realized Sophia had fallen on her own.
His expression grew impossibly complicated.
You’re lying, lying!
My baby… I’ll kill you, Ramona, why don’t you just die…”
Maybe feeling the life inside her slipping away, Sophia finally tore off her mask.
She seemed to forget Maverick was right there, cursing me viciously, wishing me dead.
Enough! Wait for the ambulance!”
Maverick cut her off sharply, a trace of impatience in his voice.
He gave me a long, searching look, then glanced toward the hidden corner of the gazebo.
knew exactly what Maverick was looking at.
There, just out of sight, was the camera I’d installed two days ago.
And Sophia had no idea it was even there…
The surveillance footage captured everything in crystal–clear detail.
It showed Sophia, step by step, coaxing me toward the edge of the gazebo.
Then, from behind, gathering herself to shove me over.
But at the very moment she lunged, I just happened to squat down to tie my shoelace…
Sophia lost the baby, a seven–month–old boy.
“Mr. Clinton, Ms. Kincaid’s body… isn’t fit for another pregnancy.”
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When the doctor revealed that Sophia had undergone two abortons and that this fall had
When the doctor revealed that Sophia had undergone two abortions and that this fall had caused severe bleeding, leaving her paper–thin uterine wall permanently damaged, Maverick’s expression grew even darker.
“May, it was Ramona! She’s not slow, she’s been pretending! She killed our baby…”
When Sophia woke up, she clung to Maverick’s hand, sobbing, but he shook her off without mercy.
“I think the one pretending all along is you.”
Maverick tossed a tablet onto her lap, his voice trembling with anger at being deceived: Sophia, you’re not just cruel–you faked every bit of love you ever showed me!”
On screen, the silent footage played.
The crying stopped abruptly.
Sophia’s face went ghostly pale. “H–how… how was there a camera…”
t was a place she’d watched for ages, convinced it was hidden from view.
She never realized a new camera had been installed.
n my previous life, when Sophia was “foolish,” she suddenly grew close to me after I got pregnant.
She brought me–six months along–to this very gazebo to admire the flowers.
But when I was heading down the steps, she deliberately tripped me.
tumbled down, lost my child.
