Chapitre 136: Game

Not. What Elsie heard just now must have been a hoax. Impossible. He was sure this was just Carter's trick to get what he wanted, in an easier, instant way that Elsie wouldn't refuse.

  "Stop lying." Elsie gripped Carter's wrist tightly. Instead of being able to get the hand off him, Carter steeled his pluck, holding Elsie's head firmly against the table.

  "I'm not, honey." He leaned forward, whispering beside the girl's ear, "Your beloved grandma worked with me."

  Carter's last sentence made Elsie gasp even more. His eyes widened in disbelief, imagining his own grandmother teaming up with an enemy? Has the old woman lost her mind?! All Elsie knew from Kyler's description—based on Miranda Cavern's explanation—that during the operation, only one baby was born and died seconds later. Why would Miranda do that to her own family?