I Was the Mistress at My Own Wedding Chapter 05

I Was the Mistress at My Own Wedding Chapter 05

After the call ended, Ethan couldn’t shake the uneasy feeling in his chest.

Claire rested a hand against his chest and spoke softly.

“Not tonight?”

Ethan frowned.

“You just had a miscarriage. Get some rest.”

He moved her hand away and casually glanced at the latest posts online.

“Leave the trending topic up for one more day, then take it down. Lily’s naive. She’s been punished enough.”

Claire’s expression stiffened.

Her nails dug into her palm.

She’d even used her own baby, and all she’d managed to do was get Lily slapped a few times and harassed

online?

She had clearly underestimated how much Lily still mattered to Ethan.

A cold look flashed through Claire’s eyes.

Still, it didn’t matter.

She had already arranged for someone to ruin Lily.

After what had happened to Lily, Ethan wouldn’t keep thinking about her.

Claire quietly withdrew her hand and went into the bedroom.

As soon as the door closed, she pulled out her phone and called the man she’d hired.

“How did it go?”

The man on the other end sounded panicked.

“You have to help me! I had no idea Lily would react like that.”

“After I left, I think she jumped into the river!”

Claire sounded irritated.

“She knows how to swim. What are you so scared of? It’s not like she’s actually going to die.”

“But there’s been a typhoon! I think Lily got swept away. The police are looking for me. Please, you have to help me!”

Claire’s face darkened instantly.

She had only wanted to ruin Lily.

She had never meant to kill her.

She was about to say something when the bedroom door was suddenly kicked open.

Ethan stood in the doorway.

The cup of milk in his hand had been crushed out of shape.

His expression was terrifyingly cold.

“Where’s Lily?”

Claire nearly fell off the bed.

Instinctively, she put on a fragile, helpless expression.

“Ethan, let me explain…”

Ethan sighed.

He walked over and set the crushed cup on the nightstand.

“Don’t be scared.”

“She’s nothing more than my mistress. Why would I ever let her threaten your place?”

His voice was gentle.

“I just want to know exactly what happened so I can help you out of this.”

Claire froze for a moment.

Then the panic inside her slowly faded.

So she told him everything.

Ethan listened in silence.

Inside his pocket, his phone was recording every word.

Meanwhile, at the Sterling family home, Eleanor received the email.

Her first instinct was to delete it as spam.

But Richard accidentally opened the attachment.

Inside was not only a DNA test, but also a photo of Lily.

The moment Richard saw the girl in the picture, he froze.

“She looks…”

“She looks so much like…”

Eleanor leaned over to see.

Her eyes widened.

“Richard! You fathered an illegitimate daughter behind my back?”

Richard jumped and immediately raised both hands.

“What? No! Absolutely not!”

“How could I possibly cheat on you? I’m a normal man, not one of those idiots who thinks with his dick!”

He hurriedly looked back at Lily’s photo, then at the DNA test.

“But… this picture doesn’t look Al-generated or edited.”

Eleanor looked at him.

Richard immediately understood what she was thinking.

“You don’t think…”

“What if this girl named Lily is actually our biological daughter?”

“And Claire is the one who was switched at birth?”

Adrian had just gotten back from the office.

He gave a cold laugh.

“Dad, have you been watching too many short dramas or reading too many novels?”

He walked in at an easy pace.

“I’ve been telling you this for years. Once a man hits sixty, he needs to learn when to retire.”

“Dad, maybe now’s a good time to think about it.”

Richard’s eyes widened in outrage.

“You little brat! Is that any way to talk to your father?”

“I was only saying it’s possible!”

Eleanor looked back at the photo.

“But… this girl really does look like me.”

Adrian frowned.

His voice turned cold.

“It’s a coincidence.”

“She’s Ethan’s mistress. That DNA test is fake.”

“For all we know, she even had plastic surgery to make herself look like us.”

Richard’s eyes widened.

“What? Claire is with a man who’s cheating on his wife?”

Eleanor looked even more shocked.

“What? And this girl actually dared to fake a DNA test?”

“Then what are we waiting for? Check it properly.”

Adrian had just gotten home from work.

Now he was being sent straight back out again.

At a hospital owned by the Sterling family, he waited half an hour before finally receiving the results of the

new DNA test.

He gave a cold laugh.

“I knew it. This DNA test has to be fake…”

The words died in his throat.

His hand suddenly trembled.

The report slipped from his fingers and fell to the floor.

Adrian swayed.

For a second, he looked like he might collapse against the wall.

Eleanor walked over in confusion.

She picked up the report and read it.

Then she froze.

“Oh my God…”

“A baby switch actually happened in our family.”

“This girl…”

“She’s really my daughter.”

Richard took the report from her.

After reading it, even he looked stunned.

“I never thought I’d find out I had two daughters.”

“Where is she now?”

“When can we meet her?”

Adrian opened his mouth.

He looked like he wanted to say something.

Then the television suddenly began playing a news report.

“A woman who had been the target of online harassment was dragged into an alley and assaulted by an unknown man. She later appeared to jump into the river in despair and is still missing…”

Adrian slowly lifted his head.

On the screen was the blurred figure of the suspected victim.

She was wearing the exact same clothes Lily had been wearing that day.

His legs gave out.

He dropped to one knee.