Ariel could tell I was intentionally mocking her, and her expression turned extrely unpleasant
Karen wanted to argue with , but Ariel stopped her "Karen. I’m okay I need to talk to Eliana"
"Ariel, what if she hurts you? You need to take care of yourself." Karen looked really worried
She was as protective of her sister’s heart as Damon was.
Ariel shook her head," I’m fine, Karen Eliana won’t do anything to ."
Karen shot a wary look. I smirked at her, provoking her. "You better keep her away from if you don’t want to do anything"
"Ariel, we don’t need to deal with her. Your health is the most important thing. Let’s go find Damon" Karen held onto Ariel’s arm tightly. "Karen, I’m fine!" Ariel shook her off, annoyance flashing in her eyes.
She was so ungrateful.
Karen left with a sigh. Ariel turned to , "Eliana, did Damon give you an agreent? About re-dividing property?"
I was slightly surprised that despite her severe illness, she managed to hold onto every detail so well. She really was incredibly diligent.
I didn’t say anything, just smiled at Ariel. Her face twisted in anger.
She continued, "I think being too greedy is not good. You know how much he has. If he gives you a third of his assets, will you take it? Won’t your conscience hurt?"
"Why wouldn’t I take it? I found it funny. "You think I’m like you? If I gave you a million dollars now, you wouldn’t even know how to spend it. And let tell you, if you’re snooping around, get your facts straight. A third? It’s half his property plus 10% of Coleman Co"
Ariel’s face turned sour, as if she’d just swallowed a fly. Clearly, she didn’t have the full picture.
She stuttered, "How is that possible? I heard the lawyer..."
She cut herself off. Spying on Damon’s conversation with his lawyer wasn’t sothing she wanted to admit
"Ariel, what gives you the right to talk like this? I don’t deserve Damon’s money, and you do?" I raised my chin, looking down at her. "What are you? Besides being younger, what else do you have?"
She was much shrewder than most girls her age.
"You!" Ariel fud but couldn’t co up with a response.
"Because Damon likes !" Ariel finally found a coback.
"Then keep trying. Let’s see if he’ll marry you" I said coldly. "Ariel, do you really not know about Catherine? That Karen’s sister? Are you going to keep playing dumb, happily accepting their kindness?"
Ariel stared at , shocked. She couldn’t believe I knew about Catherine.
Her reaction amused . ’Ariel, you don’t think the Coleman family didn’t try to persuade , do you? They certainly inford about Catherine’s situation and your heart condition."
"I don’t know what you’re talking about" Ariel panicked. "I don’t even know who Catherine is!"
"It’s okay. You should thank your parents for giving you a face like Catherine’s, and for getting her heart. Without that, Damon wouldn’t look at you twice, and Karen wouldn’t treat you like a sister. Got it?" I didn’t care that Ariel had gone pale.
She wanted to play dumb, so she could justify Damon’s compensation as love.
Ariel clutched her chest, gasping for breath. She stumbled and I stepped back. Karen rushed over to support her.
"Eliana, what did you do to her?" Karen demanded angrily.
Damon appeared from the restaurant. Seeing Ariel’s state, he rushed over.
Ariel collapsed into his arms, whispering, "Damon, who is Catherine.."
Then she fainted.
Even in fainting, she was setting the stage. Now that I’d revealed she knew about Catherine, Damon would find out soon. She might as well ask and put herself in a vulnerable position
Poor girl. She didn’t even know she was a stand-in.
I watched as Damon helped Ariel to the car. He shot a glance, his brow furrowed.
"Damon, aren’t you going to say anything to Eliana? She’s the reason Ariel fainted""
"Let’s get Ariel to the hospital first" Damon replied impatiently
Karen’s hatred for was deep. Ariel had fainted, and the priority was to get her to the hospital. Yet, she still wanted Damon to scold .
When Damon drove off without waiting for her, Karen looked even more annoyed "Eliana, you’ve already killed my sister once. You want to do it again?"
"I’m curious. How did you know Ariel got your sister’s heart?" I ignored her question.
"That’s none of your business!" Karen snapped.
"Oh, so you think Ariel didn’t recognize you?" I laughed. "How did you decide she’s so naive she wouldn’t know anything?"
Karen cut off, pissed, "Not everyone is as nasty as you are!"
With that, she stord off
Coming out from the restaurant, Luna and Mitch saw standing alone at the entrance and couldn’t help but ask, "Where’s Damon?"
April fud, "He invited for dinner, then took a phone call and just leh! Who does that?"
I tried to console her, "There might be so special reason Ariel fell sick all of a sudden, try to understand"
"Maybe Karen called Damon to tell him that Ariel was with , that’s why he took off"
April’s eyes went wide, "What?!"
Hearing all this, Cooper seed worried and was ready to go look for Damon, holding his car keys. He asked Mitch, "Shall we go check out what’s going on?"
Mitch, hugging Luna tightly, seed aloof, "No need, I need to be with my family, I don’t need to worry about Ariel"
Cooper gave him a strange look, as he seed to notice his good friend’s attitude towards Ariel had changed.
Luna contentedly stroked Mitch’s face
"Ugh annoying," April said, a bit confused, then turned to us. Let’s continue our al upstairs, my friends are still there"
"Nah, I’m heading back to sleep "I replied
April you go ahead and eat I’m heading back too, I’ll treat you next ti ’Luna had a good impression of April"
April gave an ’ok’ sign and went back to the private room.
Cooper had already driven off to find Damon, leaving , Luna, and Mitch alone
After hearing the whole story Luna comnded on a job well done
Then Mitch found sothing suspicious. "The heart? What does that have to do with Catherine?
Right, ant it just that Ariel looks like Catherine, Luna was also confused
Next, Ariel will definitely use the incident to start asking Damon about Catherine pretending to suddenly realize that she’s a stand in.
So I could tell the others first
I told the two that Catherine didn’t pass away imdiately that year, but after a few days of rescue she donated her heart, and the recipient was Ariel
Luna was dumbfounded, "Wow, that’s really shocking"
So Damon and that Karen person cared so much about Ariel because of this?" Mitch’s face warfull of shock Unbelievable, as his good friend. I didn’t know there was such a story!"
The question is, how did Damon know Ariel received Catherine’s heart? Luna asked after recovering. Did Ariel tell him herself?"
I shook my head, "No, I don’t know this either. Ariel always played dumb about Catherine she wouldn’t have told Damon herself, I think it might have sothing to do with Karen"
I really wanted to know how Ariel, who was only fifteen or sixteen at the ti, ca into contact with the Catherine family Hospitals usually don’t reveal donor information, they wouldn’t have let them et.
And how did Damon know about Ariel’s heart? Was it really Karen who told him? Then how did Karen recognize Ariel? When did she tell Damon?
These questions were intricately linked, and I was very confused.
After saying goodbye to Luna, I drove ho.
As soon as I got ho, I received a voice ssage from Luna. "Eliana, I ended up sending Mitch to the hospital, at least he can act as an informant and gather so news!"
"You’re using him as a spy?" I laughed and sent a voice ssage back
I pissed Ariel off so much she passed out, I feel pretty good.
Luna replied. "Haha, I love hearing about these things"
Sure enough, Mitch really was cut out to be an informant. The next day, he passed on so news he heard at the hospital through Luna
After Ariel woke up, she started crying and asked Damon to explain about Catherine. After Damon finished, she passed out again.
Cherry and Dean went to the hospital to find Damon, asking him to let Ariel go, not knowing that it was their daughter who had been pestering Damon
"Eliana, about those questions last night Mitch found so answers at Damon’s! You t Damon when you and Karen were on a business trip overseas, right? Later, Karen discovered the relationship between Damon and Ariel, found out that Ariel was the recipient of her sister’s heart, and then she told Damon. Before that, Damon only knew that Ariel Bitch had heart disease."
My guess turned out to be true. As for how Karen recognized Ariel, and how Ariel knew about Catherine, these two questions were still unclear
I planned to investigate, not for Damon, but to get a clearer picture of Ariel’s true face.
While chatting with Luna, Sofia sent a ssage, [Eliana, is Ariel seriously ill again? Word from the College is that her return date has been. postponed, the specifics aren’t clear]
I replied, "Yeah, that’s right"
Joshua also sent a ssage telling about it, saying he would help and has been keeping an eye on things.
I replied to each one
Suddenly, a call ca from an unfamiliar number
When I answered, I found out it was Cooper," Eliana, can we et?"
"et?" I was a bit confused
"Yeah, there’s sothing really important" Cooper seed a bit embarrassed, ’Can you do a favor?"
I wasn’t planning to help him, but then I heard a struggle on the other end of the phone, followed by Cherry’s anxious voice, "Ms. Brooks, you blocked my number, I can’t contact you, can we et and talk? Please save our Ariel!"
I was silent for a mont, then calmly said, ’Cherry, about Ariel, you don’t need to co to anymore, I can’t and won’t help her"
"Ms. Brooks, please. My husband just had surgery recently, and this ti he’s been sick because of Ariel’s situation. I have to take care of two patients. by myself, can’t you show so sympathy?" Cherry choked up.
She was indeed innocent, the one at fault was her daughter, not her.
I said coldly, "Cherry, there’s no need to et, just tell over the phone"
Cherry holding Cooper’s phone told a lot, the gist being, she hoped I could persuade Damon to let Ariel go. Ariel couldn’t handle such a big emotional upheaval, her heart wouldn’t be able to take it
After listening, my voice had a hint of probing. "Cherry, do you know who donated the heart to Ariel?"
"I don’t know, but soone ca to find her once, I don’t know if that person was a relative of the donor..."
Cherry choked up. "Ariel was still young at the ti, the person said they wanted to take her out to play, I refused, then the person gave Ariel a gift, took a picture with her, and left"
"How old was that person? Male or female?" I asked.
"A woman in her forties," Cherry replied "Ms Brooks, what’s the point of asking all this? Can it help Ariel?"
Hearing Cherry’s words, I already had a general understanding of this matter in my mind. The middle aged lady must be Karen and Catherine’s mom. She couldn’t bear missing her daughter and found Honnie. Karen probably recognized Ariel through that group photo.
The only part that didn’t add up for was how Ariel recognized Karen. She should have only t Karen’s mom.
"Cherry, I can’t help Ariel " I responded. "Have you ever considered that your girl might be with Damon of her own free will? Maybe she doesn’t need the help you guys think she does."
"What?" Cherry was taken aback.
I hung up the phone. There was no need to say anything more.
Since Ariel’s still out cold, she won’t be going back to college anyti soon. I might as well take it easy for a few days and enjoy life.
I was still not giving up on my weight gain plan. The doctor told I might have a hard ti getting pregnant in the future, but it’s not impossible. Maybe if I took care of myself a miracle might happen?
I had planned on being a single mom after having a baby, but now that the baby’s gone, I wasn’t gonna give up on marriage and having kids just because of Damon. I’d still got my parents
Even for my parents’ sake, I gotta pull myself together and face whatever cos my way with a positive attitude.
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