Chapter 733 The Interrogation

    Ste nodded. “Yeah.”

    “Thene with me to question them,” Madam Evelyn said smoothly.

    She had already brought in the two most suspicious women. To dispel Ste’s doubts, she wanted her present during the questioning.

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    Confident nothing would go wrong, she also intended to teach Ste something: even if there was guilt, Ste should be the one to deal with it herself.

    As the Dawson family’s matriarch–in–waiting, there were moments when she needed to show real authority.

    “Alright,” Ste agreed.

    Abraham set down his ss of milk. “I’lle too.”

    “There’s no need,” Madam Evelyn cut in firmly. “This is a matter for women. Better handled by women.

    Every incident like this was training for Ste. She was kind and gentle, but as the Dawson family’s mistress, she also had to be shrewd and decisive.

    Of course, Madam Evelyn had no idea how Ste had already handled the Reed and Keene families back in Rivermount.

    Ste nced at Abraham. “I’ll go myself.”

    “Ste…” Abraham’s voice held worry.

    “I’ll be with her,” Madam Evelyn reassured. She knew he was worried, especially with Ste carrying triplets, but she herself would be there.

    And with that, she led Ste away.

    By the water garden stood a small pavilion.

    Melissa had been dragged there, bewildered and furious. When she saw Madam Evelyn and Ste approaching together, her expression grew stormy.

    Kelly wasn’t there; the butler must have intended to question them one by one.

    Melissa clenched down on her anger.

    She had been yanked straight out of bedst night. At first, she thought she was being kidnapped. Instead, she was brought back to Falvaria?

    She had been abroad all this time, ever since that banquet where Abraham’s cold treatment of her had turned the entire Dawson n against her.

    Life had been unbearable, so she had left the country.

    And now they had dragged her back? For what?

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    Chapter 733 The interrogation

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    The memory of being pulled from bed and marched here still made her seethe. Her fury was barely restrained. “Madam Evelyn, what is the meaning of this?”

    But because this was the Dawson family, she didn’t dare go too far.

    Madam Evelyn and Ste sat together.

    She looked at Ste with a pointed nce. “Ste.”

    Ste nodded, lifting her hand. A servant stepped forward with a small box and ced it in her palm.

    She took it, then narrowed her eyes at Melissa–and flung it at her feet.

    The box popped open, and a pregnancy test ttered onto the ground,nding right by Melissa’s shoe.

    Ste’s gaze sharpened. “Miss Melissa, this is yours, isn’t it?”

    Melissa blinked at the double lines on the stick, her eyes wide with shock as she looked back at Ste.

    “W–what do you mean by this?”

    Her confusion was genuine.

    Madam Evelyn’s tone went cold. “Miss Dawson, I’ve seen plenty of women putting on acts over the years.”

    Especially back when Ste and Abraham’s rtionship hadn’t been certain.

    The Dawson family had seen countless women throw themselves forward. Some tried to act refined, asking to be treated as daughters. Others were blunt, promising to serve her for life.

    At banquets, schemes came in all forms.

    Madam Evelyn had seen every trick imaginable–but Melissa’s ploy was a first.

    Melissa’s anger red, but she still didn’t dare openly defy her. After all, the Dawson family wasn’t as invincible as it once had been.

    Taking a deep breath, she said carefully, “I don’t understand what Madam Evelyn is implying.”

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    But she had been abroad. She hadn’t even been paying attention to Falvaria’s affairs.

    Yes, there had been the matter of the banquet, but that was long resolved. Even if she had put on an act then -what did that have to do with now?

    Seeing Melissa’s bewildered look only made Madam Evelyn’s gaze turn sharper, colder.

    Melissa squirmed under it. “I–I haven’t done anything, have I?”

    “You have. The evidence is right at your feet. A clever woman like you should know that some responsibilities cannot be avoided,” Madam Evelyn said icily.

    Melissa froze.

    Evidence? At her feet?

    Chapter 733 The internation

    She nced again at the pregnancy leat lying there, the unmistakable two red line

    Her stomach dropped. ollibut in not pregnant.” /li/ol

    Double lines? On a test?

    No, this wasn’t right.

    Even if she were pregnant, how would her test have ended up here?

    It made

    no sense at all.

    Melissa stood there utterly batlled, unable to understand what was happening.

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