The Invisible Daughter (Yunice Saunders) novel Chapter 359

Chapter 359 Smoke and Schemes

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Owen might’ve helped smooth things over today, but only Elsie knew the truth–the exposé was real. And sooner or later, it would blow up again.

Ever since Yunice married Wyatt, her own luck had gone straight downhill. Meanwhile, Yunice was thriving–her glow practically radiated luxury.

If things kept going this way, Yunice would end up burying her.

Elsie glanced at Owen, who was on the phone frantically trying to scrape together money. Then she quietly stepped out and made a call of her own.

Standing at the second–floor railing, she talked on the phone while casually watching the first floor below.

She spotted Lily answering a call, then walking over to open the front door.

A delivery man handed her a thick envelope.

Elsie raised an eyebrow, curious. Lily looked up toward the second floor cautiously.

But since Elsie was leaning behind a column, Lily didn’t see her.

Elsie frowned. What’s Mom being so sneaky about?

Then she saw Lily do something even weirder–she didn’t even open the envelope before pulling out a lighter and setting one corner of it on fire.

But the rising smoke triggered the fire alarm.

With a yelp, Lily quickly doused the burning papers with a glass of water, tossed the soggy mess in the trash, and hurried off to the kitchen to turn off the alarm.

The second Lily was out of sight, Elsie rushed downstairs, pulled the half–burned document from the trash, and unfolded it.

The text was still legible–it was a court summons.

Defamation, false accusation, malicious slander… The letters SAT jumped out at her. Suddenly, everything clicked.

She remembered Yunice saying in the hospital that whoever falsely accused her would be receiving a court summons.

Which meant… the person was Lily.

Hearing Lily’s footsteps coming back from the kitchen, Elsie quickly composed herself and slipped back upstairs like nothing. had happened.

But as she turned her back to Lily, a smirk curled across her lips.

Elsie had always thought Lily was protecting her out of favoritism. Even when she did something wrong, Lily would lie for her, cover for her, play the doting mother.

Now she saw it clearly. Lily didn’t love her–she just hated Yunice.

Watching Yunice struggle was Lily’s favorite pastime. She was jealous of her own daughter.

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