Upon reading that Josiah was excluded as the biological father of the tested child, Meredith felt her
mind go blank. “Meredith Leighton, I have given you the chance you so badly wanted, and this is what I
get for trusting you? This is what you meant when you insisted that she is my biological daughter?
Staring down at her coldly, Josiah snickered when he saw how Meredith was trembling,” What’s
wrong? Are you getting scared now that the truth is finally revealed?” “And you thought that I would
blindly believe what you said to me last night and would forget about even running a paternity test?”
“It’s…it’s not like that.” Shaking her head frantically, Meredith finally found her voice, “It’s really not as it
seemed. Joe, these results must be manipulated.” “Here we go again, aren’t we?” “No, Nia is really
your daughter. You must have tested the wrong sample…” Meredith crawled toward Josiah, tugged at
the bottom of his trousers, and cried, “Joe, you have to believe me. Aside from you, I’ve never slept
with any other guy, I really didn’t!” With a look of disdain on his face, Josiah flung away her hand and
seethed, “Lily, play the video taken of her and Yoel in the room that night.”
Lily carefully called out, “Sir, this…” “Right now!”
Cowering in fear, Lily left the room and soon returned with a thumb drive in her hands.
The room was instantly filled with embarrassing whining sounds and Meredith could not bring herself to
look at the screen. Covering her ears with her shaky hands, she shook her head and sobbed, “It’s not
what it seemed, it’s really not…”
“How is it not?” Josiah leaned over, and grabbed her hair from behind, forcing her to look at the video
that was playing on the screen.
“Look carefully, Meredith Leighton! This was what had happened, wasn’t it?”
“No!” Meredith cried out, horrified, “I was being framed by Ysabelle! She was the one who set me up!”
“Ysabelle framed you? You might as well accuse Yena of framing you!” Josiah snapped.
Not only Meredith could not bring herself to look at the screen, even Josiah avoided it. He was worried
that if he took another look at the video, he would kill Meredith on the spot.
Turning off the video, Josiah dragged Meredith off the floor violently. “Get up!” Meredith was already
weak from the fever she was having, and after knowing the paternity results, she could not even stand
up straight as her legs were weak. Josiah, on the other hand, showed no signs of mercy and dragged
her down the stairs. When they passed by Yena’s bedroom, Ysabelle ‘coincidentally’ bumped into
them.
“Josiah , what are you doing? Meredith is still sick, isn’t she?” Ysabelle grabbed Josiah’s arm and said,
“Josiah, calm down now. Have you forgotten that Meredith passed out last night?” “Move!” Josiah
ordered sternly. Ysabelle shook her head. “No, I will not go until you let Meredith go.” With all the
strength left in her, Meredith lifted up her head and looked at Ysabelle who was putting on a show. It
must have been Ysabelle who manipulated the paternity test results.
She pointed a trembling finger at Ysabelle. “It must be her, it’s her who manipulated the test results.”
“Meredith, why are you putting the blame on me again?” Ysabelle’s face crumbled and said, ” Can you
stop blaming me for everything that had happened. I’ve been in Yena’s room for the past two days and
didn’t even leave the house once.” Taking a glance at Josiah who looked gloomy, she added, “Josiah
knows about it too.”
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