Chapter 556
Chapter 556:
“It’s a mistake,” Sienna stammered, backing up until she hit the chest of a police officer. “Those emails are fake p>
“And this?” Skye pointed down the hallway.
The double doors at the end of the corridor swung open. Two medical examiners in scrubs were pushing a gurney. On it lay a body bag, zipped shut, the shape underneath unmistakably human.
Skye knew the bag was empty. It was filled with sandbags and pillows. But Sienna didn’t know that.
“We found the nurse, Sienna,” Skye lied, her voice dropping to a terrifying whisper. “The one you paid off to forge the ultrasound results. She had a sudden attack of conscience. Or maybe she just realized Lucian doesn’t leave loose ends p>
Sienna’s breath hitched. She stared at the white body bag as it rolled closer. The wheels squeaked—squeak, squeak, squeak—a sound that seemed to synchronize with Sienna’s hyperventilating.
“She’s ready to testify,” Skye said, improvising. “Unless… you want to tell us who really ordered the fake pregnancy scheme p>
“No…” Sienna whimpered. She pressed her hands over her mouth.
“Lucian will kill you anyway,” Skye said mercilessly. “But if you talk, maybe you get a cell with a window p>
The gurney stopped right in front of them.
Sienna stared at the zipper. In her mind, she wasn’t seeing a prop; she was seeing her own future. The fear, buried under layers of narcissism and greed, erupted like a geyser.
“It was Beatrice!” Sienna screamed, dropping to her knees. “Beatrice and Lucian! They made me do it! They said if I didn’t fake the baby, Liam would leave me! I just… I just wanted to be famous p>
The hallway went silent. The confession rang off the tiled walls. Every police officer, every detective, and Liam heard it.
“You wanted fame,” Liam repeated, stepping closer to the kneeling woman. “So you destroyed my marriage? You poisoned my wife against me? All for a role p>
Sienna looked up at him, mascara streaking her face, her hands reaching for his pants leg. “Liam, please. I did it for us! I needed to be someone worthy of you! I loved you p>
уo𝘶𝘳 n𝘦х𝗍 𝘳𝗲а𝘥 іѕ o𝗇 𝘣𝘦lոоv𝖾ls.𝖼o𝗺
Liam took a step back, pulling his leg away from her grasp as if she were contagious.
“You don’t know what love is,” Liam said. “You’re a parasite p>
He looked at the officers. “Get her out of my sight p>
Sienna shrieked as they hauled her up. “Grandmother! Beatrice! Help me p>
But the door to the interrogation room down the hall was open. Beatrice Kensington was standing in the doorway, leaning heavily on her cane. She had heard the screaming. She had heard the confession.
Beatrice looked at the woman she had groomed, the woman she had plotted with, the woman she had pitted against Skye. She saw the cheapness of her, the fraud.
Beatrice’s face crumbled. It wasn’t sorrow; it was the realization that she had bet the entire Kensington legacy on a counterfeit coin.
“Take her away,” Beatrice whispered, turning her back.
Sienna was dragged down the hall, her heels scraping the floor, leaving black scuff marks that looked like skid marks on a road to hell.
Skye watched her go. She felt a hand on her shoulder. It was Liam.
“Is it over?” he asked.
Skye looked at the empty hallway, then at the closed door of the interrogation room where Beatrice had retreated.
“No,” Skye said. “Sienna was just the symptom. The disease is still in there.” She pointed to Beatrice’s room. “And the carrier p>