Chapter 1028
Patricia couldn’t feel her brother’s affection anymore. She reached out, her hand shaking, and grabbed onto Balfour’s pant leg.
“Brother, I’m not like that… The things I just said were all influenced by Ellinor’s ghost… She gets her kicks seeing this; even after death, she torments me. She won’t be satisfied until she sees me abandoned! Brother, don’t fall for her tricks!”
Balfour, standing over her, frowned in disgust. He kicked his leg free from Patricia’s grip and took a few steps back, distancing himself from his sister, who had utterly disappointed him.
Throwing her dignity to the wind, Patricia scrambled on the floor, attempting to get closer to her brother, hoping for a shred of his affection.
“Patri, just let it go!”
As Patricia was crawling towards him, she suddenly heard her grandmother’s voice. She froze and turned to the source of the sound, her eyes wide in shock.
She saw Ellinor helping Alyssa walk in, and Dean, who was also being supported by his old attendant.
Ellinor was alive?
Patricia glanced back at “Ellinor’s” disfigured corpse, trembling with fear.
The body was still on the morgue table; it hadn’t disappeared.
The spot where Ellinor’s ghost had originally appeared was now empty, with only Veronica standing there, arms crossed and looking pissed off.
How could Ellinor be alive and help her grandmother? Wasn’t she dead?
Patricia was certain that when she threw her phone at Ellinor earlier, it passed right through her.
What the hell was going on?!
Everyone showing up here and hearing what she shouldn’t have said wasn’t a coincidence.
It had to be Ellinor’s doing! Was she not dead?
While Patricia was going over everything in her head, Dean and Alyssa had reached her.
Alyssa sighed in disappointment, “Patri, we heard everything you said to Ellinor. There’s no point in making excuses now.
Over the years, we’ve been very fond of you, partly because you remind us of Pearl. But just like Pearl, you’re a Howard. How could we not care about you? Did you really think you were just a stand-in?
Especially your brother. He’s been spoiling and protecting you all these years; you know that better than anyone. How could you say such things about him?
And using people for your own gains, you think this is the right way? Are these the values your mother instilled in you?”
Patricia shook her head vigorously, her voice shaky, “Grandma, no, it’s not like that…”
Dean huffed, “Don’t hold your breath for her to change! She’s becoming more and more like her calculating mother, stooping to any lows with no remorse!”
