Chapter 223 The Heir is Actually an Impostor?
Margaret was about to lose it over Paige's words. "You're talking nonsense! Paige, what are you trying to do to Xena?"
But Paige just stood there, cool as a cucumber, with that mysterious look on her face. Paige hit a nerve. "Xena, why'd you take forty million dollars from the Sackler Group?"
Xena kept her head down, not saying a word. Paige pressed on, "Why'd you sneak off and flee abroad in disguise? And where's the forty million dollars now?"
Ever since Paige found out about the money, she'd been tracking it. She knew Xena had already moved it to an overseas account. If nothing crazy happened, Margaret wasn't getting that money back.
Seeing Xena still clammed up, Paige turned to Margaret. "Mrs. Sackler, don't you wanna know what Xena's plan is with the forty million? Why'd she go abroad and keep it from you? Aren't you even a little curious?"
Margaret was dying to know. Even though she was cursing Paige, she still wanted to find out where all that cash went. Margaret looked at Xena, worried sick. Although she knew it wasn't the best time to ask Xena about it in front of Paige, she really wanted to find out what had happened to make the usually well-behaved Xena act this way.
Margaret reached out to grab Xena's hand. Xena tried to pull away, but Margaret held on and asked, "Xena, did Paige make you do this? Why'd you take forty million from the company? You know how important that money is right now. Did you take it because you think I did something wrong and want to give it back to the Carnegie family? Do you hate me, Xena? Please, talk to me!"
Margaret was desperate, firing off questions, but Xena stayed silent. Margaret was about to break down. With her heart condition, the stress was too much.
She was about to faint when Elijah, who was nearby, caught her. Elijah was just as anxious. "Xena, just tell us what's going on!"
Xena still didn't say a word. Paige, however, started laughing. "Since Ms. Sackler won't tell us, how about I take a guess? That night, I did a blood analysis and found Ms. Sackler's medical records. At first, I thought they were fake. But now I get it. It’s probably not the medical records that are fake, but Ms. Sackler herself. Out of guilt and fear, she secretly moved forty million dollars and planned to flee abroad."
Paige continued, ''In the end, the cherished heir of the Sackler family, Xena, is actually an impostor! From the beginning, Xena, you were never a member of the Sackler family. Your A-type blood doesn't match Mrs. Parker or the late Mr. Sackler at all. You're not their child, which is why you were so ruthless in pushing Mrs. Parker down the stairs, right? Maybe Mrs. Parker had already found out. But I'm very curious why you are not the child of the Sackler family's child. What happened?"
Paige tried to recall, but she had no idea if anything strange had happened without the experience of living in the Sackler Villa. Paige didn't understand, but Margaret did. Sure enough, hearing Paige's words, Margaret's face turned bright red.
Before Paige could continue, Margaret interrupted her, "You're talking nonsense! How could Xena not be a member of the Sackler family? Paige, it's bad enough that you're an illegitimate child, but now you're accusing Xena. What exactly do you want?"
Paige, seeing Margaret so agitated, smiled and said, "Didn't you hear clearly? I said, Xena has A-type blood. Don't you even know the common sense? Don't you know the blood types of your son and his wife?"
Of course, Margaret knew. It was because she heard Paige say that Xena had A-type blood that she was so agitated. If what Paige said was true, then Xena really wasn't a member of the Sackler family! She wasn't her biological granddaughter!
Margaret simply couldn't handle this. She had cherished Xena for twenty years, treating her as the heir to the Sackler family as a treasure, protecting and nurturing her with all her heart, only to find out that she had no blood relation to her. What did all her years of effort mean then?
Paige's words left Margaret in stunned silence. Paige stepped forward and grabbed Xena's hand. "In case my guess is wrong, or that my blood analysis report might be flawed, I brought my mother's hair. Now, I want to take a sample from you. I want to know if you are really her daughter! I will also investigate everything you did to her!"
With that, Paige reached out to grab Xena's hair. Xena, with one hand held by Margaret and the other by Paige, had nowhere to escape and instinctively hid behind Margaret. But this time, Margaret didn't continue to shield Xena since she wanted to know the truth.
Paige easily took a strand of Xena's hair, and Locas was already waiting by Paige's side. Paige handed the hair to Locas and said, "I want them to watch the entire process from outside the lab."
Locas nodded. "No problem, I'll get the results in the shortest time possible."
Paige turned to Margaret and Xena. "Ladies, please. Let's all wait for the results together, shall we?"
Log in with Google Account
Chapters
Favorite
Settings
