Chapter 247 The Weight of a Name
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Seeing Lily refuse to admit it, Oscar said, “Fine. I’ll let everything else go. But I don’t accept Elsie’s identity. She’s not a daughter of the Saunders family, and she has no right to Yunice’s name. I’m giving you three days. If Elsie doesn’t go cancel that ID, I’ll publish a statement in the newspaper explaining exactly how we switched the records back then.”
Smack. Lily’s handbag dropped to the floor. She was stunned.
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She lost control and shrieked, “Are you insane?! You and Owen were the ones who signed off on that identity change. If you go public with this, you’re telling all of Silverburgh that Owen tampered with government documents. That’s a crime–do you understand that?!”
Oscar said, “Exactly. That’s why I have to come clean. I was the one who made the mistake.”
Lily was practically unraveling. “Yunice is gone. Why won’t you let this go… Elsie only borrowed the name. It didn’t hurt you…”
Oscar said, “Even if Yunice is gone, she was still my sister. Elsie can act all she wants, but she’ll never be her. I’m just doing what I should’ve done from the beginning–getting justice for my real sister. Is that so wrong?”
He looked at both Lily and Owen one last time before turning and heading upstairs.
Lily collapsed onto the sofa, sobbing harder than she ever had in her life. Her howls echoed loud enough that Oscar surely heard them from upstairs.
But he never came down. Never softened. Never said a word.
When crying didn’t work, Lily couldn’t sit still anymore.
Oscar wasn’t like Owen. He was stubborn, and he still resented her for leaving the family years ago. He wasn’t going to listen to her.
Lily wiped her tears and called Freya.
It was one in the morning. Freya was jolted awake.
Seeing Lily’s name flash on the screen, she sat up, already furious, but forced herself to answer. “Madam Lily, is something wrong?”
Lily was sobbing so hard she could barely breathe. “Freya, I’m really sorry to call so late, but could you please let me talk to Carl for just a minute?”
Freya sighed and pressed her hand to her forehead, doing her best to keep it together. “Madam Lily, do you even know what time it is? What makes you think I can contact Mr. Carl right now?”
She added coldly, “And by the way, Mr. Carl doesn’t belong to me. You don’t need my permission to see him, understood?”
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Chapter 247 The Weight of a Name
She hung up immediately after.
Pulling up Lily’s number, Freya hovered over the block button.
But in the end, she hesitated.
Finished
She’d dealt with enough people to spot what was real and what wasn’t. Lily was either stupid—or doing this on purpose just to get under her skin.
Carl looked at the receiver and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lily choked out “It’s nothing serious. I just had a fight with one of the kids…. I really don’t know what to do anymore.”
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