Chapter 833
Chapter 0833
To test her theory, Suzy tipped the bottle and poured two black pills into her palm,
then held them out to Evangeline and Helena.
The sisters exchanged a brief glance, saying nothing.
Without hesitation, they each took a pill and raised it to their lips.
"Wait!"
Just as Evangeline was about to swallow hers, Suzy called out, stopping them both.
"I don't think either of you is lying. I think there's something bigger going on here." Evangeline was the first to respond. "What do
you mean?"
Suzy's gaze darkened. "I think someone is trying to turn the two of you against each other. And as for me..."
Her eyes narrowed. "Whoever it is doesn't just hate you—they hate me too. I think this is a plan to pit the three of us against
each other."
Helena frowned. "A plan to destroy all three of us? Who would hate us that much?"
Suzy's eyes narrowed as a thought struck her. "Serena."
F...
The initial they'd been chasing. Serena Ford.
It suddenly all clicked into place.
"No," Evangeline said immediately, shaking her head.
"That's impossible. Serena has been locked away in the royal prison for months.
Suzy's smile was laced with irony. "Are you sure about that?"
To get to the truth, Suzy asked Evangeline to keep a discreet eye on Serena's activities.
Days passed. Everything about Serena's behavior seemed ordinary-too ordinary.
No suspicious moves, no strange visitors.
"I think you might be overthinking it, Suzy," Evangeline said one afternoon.
"Serena isn't the same person she used to be. I've seen her myself-she's not just locked away physically. Mentally, she's...
broken. I don't think she even has the clarity to scheme anymore."
"Her mental state isn't normal?" Suzy's brow furrowed.
"Then maybe I should go see her for myself."
Suzy headed to the royal prison and finally came face-to-face with Serena.
Her condition was just as Evangeline had described-disoriented and detached.
The moment she saw Suzy, confusion clouded her eyes.
"Who are you?" Serena asked, her tone wary and unfamiliar.
"Are you a prisoner too?"
Suzy stood there, observing her closely.
The confusion on Serena's face didn't look like an act.
She genuinely seemed to have no idea who she was.
And yet... it didn't feel like forgotten memories. It was more like they'd never met at all.
Serena shouldn't have been able to forget her.
Suzy had been the one who'd torn off her mask of false innocence and exposed her crimes.
That was the kind of betrayal people didn't forget.
Suzy's eyes darkened as she stepped forward and crouched beside her. "I'm Suzy Frost. Do you remember me?"
She said her name on purpose, watching for any flicker of recognition.
But Serena just stared, expression blank. "Suzy Frost? Who's that?"
"Not even a little?" Suzy pressed.
"Look closely. Maybe it'll come back to you."
Serena did as she was told, lifting her gaze to study Suzy's face with an almost childlike focus.
"Nope," she said after a few moments.
"Nothing. Not a single thing. But
should way you're talking, I
know you. Why can't
to?"
remember?" Content bu
Her words were simple, but Suzy picked up on something beneath them: clarity.
Logical reasoning.
Her speech didn't match the vacant, broken persona everyone believed she had.
Suzy reached out and helped her up from the cold stone floor. "It's okay.
I remember now, I
it'll
e back later." Conte
Serena nodded. "Maybe. I've probably just been locked up too long. My brain's gone a little foggy."
She sighed heavily, glancing around the dim cell.
"It's lonely in here. Day after day, it's
just me eating, sleeping, pacing the
same four walls. You're the first
person who's visited me in... forever."