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My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap
My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap
Lynn Green

Chapter 1

Lynn Green
I had secretly sent someone off to help me carry out a maternity test.

The results proved conclusively that Agnes Beckett was not my daughter.

While acting unmoved, I had someone search for my actual daughter. At the same time, I stopped paying the fees for Agnes’ incubator.

My husband, Hadrian Beckett, arrived before my best friend, Liza Blair.

He held Agnes in his arms as he rushed into my ward. She was having difficulty breathing, and her face was turning blue.

“Are you insane, Rowena? You know that Aggie has heart problems, but you stopped paying her medical fees? Are you trying to kill her?”

I was just about to show him the maternity report and tell him that our baby had been switched. But when I glanced up and took a good look at his face, I was stunned.

Why had I never once suspected that Aggie was not my child in the previous timeline?

It was because she had looked so much like Hadrian.

Everyone said that daughters took after their fathers, and I had thought the same.

Yet, when I looked at the man I had been through so much with, I only felt a cold sensation starting up from my extremities.

I lowered my voice, and it shook as I said, “I talked to the doctor. Her chances of getting better from this condition are tiny. Even if we spend a fortune to treat her, she will always be weak and reliant on medical intervention. Her life will be painful. It would be better to… end things while she’s still young and innocent. She’ll suffer less that way.”

When Hadrian understood what I meant, he immediately yelled shrilly, “How could you be so heartless, Rowena? This is our daughter! The doctor already said that she has a chance as long as we’re willing to pay for it! Besides…”

Hadrian paused before resuming, “Didn’t your father leave you a lot of money? You’re saving your own daughter here. Don’t tell me you can’t bear to spend this money?”

My gaze sharpened. Ah, so this was the reason they had switched the babies.

Hadrian wanted me to spend my money to treat the daughter he had with his lover. He even expected me to expend all my time and effort to care for her.

In the previous timeline, I had been thoroughly fooled. Ignorant of the truth, that was exactly what I had done.

In the end, I had sacrificed all my money, my health, and even my life in exchange for their happy family.

I gave him a rueful smile. “Well, you’re right about that. If you want to treat her condition so badly, then you should spend your money to do it.”

I could not be bothered to look at him any longer. I turned around, intent on lying back in bed.

Just then, Agnes started crying. It was such perfect timing.

Hadrian seemed to find a great way to guilt me. Loudly, he announced, “Listen, the baby’s crying! She’s looking for her mother! You’re her mother, Rowena. How could you abandon her just because she’s a little sick? Are you so heartless?”

The ward door opened again. The nurse stopped at the door in the middle of doing her rounds, her unsure, judging, gaze stopping on me.

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  • My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap   Chapter 9

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  • My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap   Chapter 8

    Liza reached out toward Hadrian as if he was her final lifeline. “Say something, Hadrian! Save me! You can’t let them take me away!”Hadrian pressed his lips tightly together. He glanced at the police officers and then at me.In the end, he avoided Liza’s gaze by ducking his head. In that second, the last shred of hope in Liza’s eyes went out. She stopped fighting back and let the police officers handcuff her. She was then brought out of the ward. However, when she brushed past me, she glared at me with bloodshot eyes and said hoarsely, “I’ll haunt you even as a ghost, Rowena. I won’t let you off.”I met her gaze openly. I said calmly, “I’m not afraid of you now when you’re alive, Liza. What could you possibly do to me when you’re dead?”The door closed, blocking off her hate-filled gaze and last shrieks.Only me, an unconscious Serena, and a grey-faced Hadrian were left in the ward. After a long spell of silence, Hadrian spoke up. His tone was dry. “What in the world do

  • My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap   Chapter 7

    There were other reports. These showed the results of the tests between Agnes and Liza, and Agnes and Hadrian. I put all three reports on the bedside table. Liza lunged over and picked up the report for her and Agnes. Her fingers were trembling so hard, and the paper creased from how hard she gripped it. Her gaze swept over all the technical terms and settled on the outcome.In the end, she collapsed into a heap on the floor. Hadrian also finished looking at his report. He closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the wall. He was shaking minutely. “So… the girl who died on the operating table… was my daughter?”I raised an eyebrow. “That was your daughter. It was also Liza’s daughter. You were the ones who abandoned her.”Liza suddenly let out a pained howl. She slammed her head repeatedly on the floor. “My daughter! I killed her!”Hadrian opened his eyes. They were reddened and bloodshot. He looked at me. “You planned all this from the start. You got her

  • My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap   Chapter 6

    As Liza stared at the blood type information, her body began to shake uncontrollably. “No, it’s impossible… It’s impossible.”She mumbled to herself as she lunged toward the end of the bed. She clutched the file. “A? How could it be A?”Hadrian’s face was deathly pale. His mouth opened and closed, but he made no sound. He was staring at the blood type information, too.I got up and straightened my clothes languidly. “Two people with O-type blood can’t have a child with A-type blood. Everyone knows this.”Liza looked up furiously, her eyes bloodshot. “What did you do? You switched out this information, right? How evil you are, Rowena!”I chuckled. “You watched them like a hawk all through the surgery. Bloodtyping is something that has to be done before any surgery. The system will have all the records. How was I supposed to tamper with that?”Liza reacted as if struck, and she stiffened in place. I walked to the window and said with my back to them, “Ten years ago, the

  • My Best Friend’s Heartless Daughter Swap   Chapter 5

    Hadrian was frowning as well. His tone brooked no argument as he said, “Doctor, you must give the heart to Serena.”I looked at them both and took in the level of selfishness they were displaying. An epiphany dawned upon me.No matter what the circumstances were, Liza had raised Agnes for ten years, and she considered Liza her mother and had done so for an entire decade. Yet, Liza still chose to save the daughter she thought was hers: Serena. Even so, my heart would not soften. The suffering Agnes went through was the same suffering my own daughter had experienced in the previous timeline. At my silence, Liza came up and grabbed my sleeve. “Rowena, what are you waiting for? Save Serena! You have to save Serena! My girl is just a useless piece of trash. If she dies, what of it?”Liza’s voice echoed down the expansive hallway, attracting the strange looks of other visitors and the nursing staff alike. However, Liza ignored all this. There was deranged conviction on her face.

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