Cora was enraged.
Surprisingly, Raymond appeared calm. He looked at Lena and asked, "Are the words recorded by
Ashley true? Is that how you really feel? You have deceived me, didn't you? It was you who killed our
baby, right?"
Raymond bombarded Lena with questions.
Lena panicked.
She was about to admit what she had done, but thought about the consequences.
She bit her lip, and looked at him pitifully. "Raymond, you have to believe me! I haven't done that. What
you have heard isn't the truth. I'll explain everything to you…"
This is all part of Ashley's devious scheme. She wants to frame me! Yes, Ashley is trying to put her
blame on me!
It was our baby! Raymond, how could I hurt our baby? I love you so much. You have to believe me…
Raymond, please…"
She looked at him dolefully with tears in her eyes. Her tears gradually rolled down like broken beads.
Raymond closed his eyes and let her words replay in his mind. 'I certainly know that it is my child. But
what can I do? I don't like Raymond. I took Raymond from you just because I saw him taking good care
of you.
You are just an adopted orphan! How can he treat you so well? So, I wanted to see if there was
anything more important than you in his mind. Ha-ha! I didn't expect him to mistake me for you when
he was drunk!
And surprisingly, you have been in love with each other for three years but you have never had sex. Do
you know how happy I was when I found out?
But now, my goal is to be the wife of the CEO of the Lu Group. I want to be Andrew's wife! I want to
replace you!'
Lena's words echoed in his mind.
'It turned out that everything was planned by Lena.
But I was so stupid. I thought that she really loved me, and cared for me as well.
Ashley had warned me more than once. She had told me to pay attention to Lena.
But what did I do? First, I didn't believe her and then I became impatient, and even got disgusted with
her.
What have I done? Am I not an idiot?' thought Raymond.
"I need some time alone to think about it," he said and then hurriedly left the ward.
"Raymond…!" Lena looked at his receding figure. She wanted to catch up with him but was stopped by
Cora.
Seeing that her son left dejectedly, Cora was worried and wanted to comfort him. But she had to help
her son solve this problem as soon as possible.
'Raymond can't get married to such a skittish woman!' she thought.
Now Cora hated Lena with the same intensity with which she had loved her earlier!
Cora had believed that Lena was a well-educated and kind lady from a prestigious family. She was
worried that Lena might be getting bullied by others. She didn't expect Lena to be so crafty to deceived
the Luo family!
Lena knew that Cora would be harder to deal with than Raymond. After all, a woman knows another
woman well.
However, Lena kept up her victim act and looked at Cora piteously and said, "Aunt Cora, please
believe me. Ashley is trying to frame me… I…"
Cora glared at Lena and sneered, "Ashley is trying to frame you, is it? Don't you always call her 'sister'?
Why do you refer to her that way in front of everyone but when you are alone with her, you call her
directly by her name? Does it mean that you used to call her 'sister' in front of us so that we would think
you're a kind girl who is trying to get close to her indifferent sister?"
A lady from a noble family would be sophisticated at all times and not just to show people.
Cora was the same.
She had never thought about Lena that way before. So, she didn't expect Lena to be such a cruel
woman.
After learning the truth, Cora ruminated about what had happened. She felt that Lena had pretended to
be an angel in front of them!
"Did you say that you were framed by Ashley? So you mean it wasn't your voice in the recording? Did
she find someone to imitate your voice to frame you?"
Mistaking her sarcasm for empathy, Lena saw a ray of hope. "Yes, Aunt Cora. Ashley must have done
that. She must have felt angry after hearing what everyone was saying about her on the Internet, so
she tried to trap me in this way. Aunt Cora, you have to believe me. How could I betray Raymond?
Lena was hysterical at that moment. She went on babbling without thinking it through, seeing the
scornful expression on Cora's face.
Although Cora didn't know Ashley well or even like her very much, she believed that Ashley wouldn't
waste so much time to pull off this so-called trick.
Seeing Lena nodding in agreement quickly, Cora was furious. She found it ridiculous. "Can you give me
a more convincing reason?"
Lena was stunned.
"Lena, I wonder if you have a conscience. I have been good to you, right? And so has Raymond, right?
At least, I think I've always been good to you. I have treated you like my daughter. I haven't done
anything bad to you. But look at you?
You have made a fool out of Raymond and you kept deceiving him. Huh! You felt jealous when you saw
that he took good care of Ashley. Then, you seduced him to have sex with you by giving him a philtre.
Later, when you found out that Ashley had married a richer man, you planned to abandon poor
Raymond without a second thought, am I right? And you even killed your own baby.
Look at yourself! What kind of a person are you? Do you think it'll ever be possible for anyone to
believe you now? How can we allow a woman like you to become a member of the Luo family! Hah!
Keep dreaming! You've fallen to such lows you cannot even compare to Ashley!"
Cora had tried to be dignified about this whole deal. It was hard for her to speak harshly, but her words
were ruthless enough to shatter Lena's hopes.
When she finished, Cora started to leave.
Just the sight of Lena made her sick.
She was walking towards the door when she thought of something. She turned round and looked at
Lena, "Well, the marriage link between the Mu family and the Luo family will be severed. I think your
engagement with Raymond is unnecessary now. He can't have such a fiancee! You'd better find
another man and never bother him again!"
Cora left without further ado.
Lena was shell-shocked.
'No! You can't do that!' Lena cried in her mind.
Cora's words terrified Lena. She caught up with Cora, clung on to her legs, and begged, "No! Aunt
Cora, please don't break our engagement! I'm sorry. I won't do it again…Aunt Cora…"
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