The Billionaire Ex-Wife and the Beggar He Became novel Chapter 490

Henrietta's face went pale. "So… she deliberately told me Winona wasn't my daughter?"

Yves nodded. "Afterward, Jillian was consumed with guilt. She was terrified of losing her job and going to jail. She was planning to retract her statement and claim it was a mistake. But then, to her surprise, your family went to the mountains and brought back another girl within days. You were incredibly affectionate with this new girl and, to top it all off, you brought her to Jillian's lab for a DNA test."

"So, Jillian doubled down. She turned one mistake into a much bigger one, making the lie permanent."

"You don't know what happened next, because Jillian made sure you wouldn't. Just as you and Old Mrs. Shepherd had set a trap for Jillian without her knowing, she set a much bigger trap for the entire Shepherd family. It was to protect herself, and to get her revenge."

"What… what trap did she set for us?" Henrietta asked, her voice trembling.

"Jillian found Felicity privately. She explained the situation to Felicity and her impoverished parents and asked Felicity if she wanted a life of wealth and privilege."

"Felicity was more than willing."

"So Jillian had Felicity secretly collect a large amount of Winona's hair."

"And just as she predicted, to be safe, the Shepherd family conducted three separate DNA tests using ‘Felicity's' hair, comparing it with samples from Henrietta, Teague, and even Jason, at three different labs."

"Unsurprisingly, every single test showed that Felicity was biologically related to every member of the Shepherd family."

"And so, the real daughter of the Shepherd family was ruthlessly cast out onto the streets."

She had thought she would be numb, that seeing the Shepherds would leave her cold. But at that moment, hearing how they had lifted up a fake while she suffered, she felt an unbearable pain.

It was so deep, so wounding.

"And me? Henrietta, you deserve to die!" Winona's eyes filled with tears as she glared at the woman who was her mother.

She wiped her tears away with the back of her hand, took out her phone, and dialed a number. "I'd like to report a crime. A woman named Henrietta has been systematically and inhumanely abusing my daughter…"