Chapter 392 As soon as Mandy's words left her lips, she drove the knife straight into Sophia's shoulder with a sickening squelch.
Sophia screamed in agony, her eyes snapping open, wild with terror. "No-please, don't kill me! I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!" Mandy yanked the blade free, her lips curling into a cold, mirthless smile. "You really are pathetic. You'd better make your next words count. If you're just stalling, I'll make sure you die a hundred times more painfully than Garnett Brown ever did." Monster. Mandy was a monster-no, something worse.
A wave of raw fear crashed over Sophia. If she'd known it would cto this, she never would have let Scarlet's phone call drag her into messing with Claire.
Claire had already let them go once.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIf they'd just kept their heads down, none of this would be happening.
Regret gnawed at Sophia, but it was much too late for that now.
Shaking and pale, she stared at Mandy, her voice quivering as she spilled Claire's secrets-everything she knew. Mandy hadn't expected much; she was only listening because it involved Claire. But as Sophia spoke, Mandy's expression froze, her entire body rigid with shock.
"You're telling me... Claire has a two-year-old daughter?" Mandy's voice was cold, incredulous.
"Claire was in prison two years ago. You're saying she had a child?" Her tone sharpened. "Are you screwing with me?" Her fury built with every word. "You're not just lying to me, but even now, with death staring you down, you dare insult Claire too?" "I'll make you wish you were dead-" Mandy exploded, her rage barely contained.
Claire was her one weakness, her only line in the sand. She would never let anyone drag Claire's nthrough the mud.
Bloodshot veins spidered through Mandy's eyes; right then, she looked more demon than human.
Sophia stumbled over her words, paralyzed by fear under Mandy's murderous glare. "I'm not lying, I swear. It's true." "You're still trying to play me? You deserve to die!" Mandy raised the knife, aiming for Sophia's eye.
Sophia shrieked, desperate. "If you kill me, you'll never find Claire's child! I'm the only one who knows where she is!" "This little girl shares Claire's blood, but she wasn't born by Claire." Mandy's hand froze mid-air. It took everything she had not to lose control. "Explain. Now!" "I will, I will!" Sophia rushed to obey, spilling every detail about the child's origins.
As Mandy listened, the world seemed to tilt beneath her feet. Her face went pale, and she coughed up a mouthful of blood, vision swimming.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"Monsters. You're all monsters," she spat, shaking.
No wonder her mother had told her Claire hadn't had a single period since leaving prison.
No wonder Claire's health had deteriorated so badly.
The truth was even more horrifying than she'd imagined. In prison, Claire's suffering hadn with beatings, humiliation, or even the loss of a kidney.
During the surgery when they removed Claire's kidney, they'd also O pumped her full of fertility drugs and forcibly harvested over a dozen of her eggs-all while she was unconscious. Claire had never known. She thought losing her kidney explained her failing health, never suspecting that her ovaries had been stripped bare, left ruined.
And Garnett Brown, Sophia, Nathan, and Vanessa-those soulless fiends-hadn't taken her eggs out of greed or profit. They'd done it because they feared that Sophe
and Vanessa's own kidneys might fait again. Claire's eggs were used to find a surrogate, to create a child whose organs would likely be a perfect match for their own.
That little girl was never meant to be loved. She was to be an organ bank, a living spare-parts kit, waiting for the day her "family" needed another piece. Claire went to her grave never knowing she had a daughter. Never knowing that her child was alive, or the real reason her own body had been destroyed.