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Chapter 153: The Name She Was Given

作者: DadieT
last update 公開日: 2026-10-04 08:36:04

The sound of the ambulance door closing echoed across the quarry.

Patricia stopped walking.

For a moment, she simply stared at the vehicle.

Mercy was inside.

Alive.

Bruised.

Exhausted.

And somehow, everyone had almost forgotten the most obvious thing.

She needed help.

Patricia turned sharply.

“Where is the officer who stayed with her?”

A female police officer stepped forward immediately.

“Here, ma'am.”

Patricia looked toward the ambulance.

“Is she being attended to?”

“Yes. The medical officer i
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  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 155: The Voice in the Dark

    “Don't trust Rose.”The words lingered in the darkness.Patricia could hear her own breathing.Then Alex's hand found hers.“Stay close.”A flashlight clicked on.Bethwel's beam cut through the darkness, sweeping across the walls, the shelves, and the open doorway.Nothing.No child.No person.No movement.Patricia stared toward the far end of the room.“Did you hear it?”“I heard it,” Bethwel said.Alex nodded.“So did I.”Rose remained motionless.Her face was pale.Patricia turned toward her.“You knew that voice.”Rose looked at her.“No.”“You're lying.”“I don't know who it was.”“Then why aren't you surprised?”Rose opened her mouth, but no words came.Bethwel raised a hand.“Everyone stays where they are.”He moved slowly toward the tunnel.His flashlight stopped on the floor.Small footprints marked the dust.Patricia's heart jumped.They were tiny.Bare feet.Fresh.“They weren't there before,” Alex said.Bethwel crouched.He touched the dust beside one of the prints.“Fres

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 154: Number One

    Rose did not blink.Patricia held the phone between them, the anonymous message still glowing on the screen.ASK ROSE ABOUT NUMBER ONE.Alex read it over Patricia's shoulder.Bethwel's hand moved instinctively toward his radio.“Lock down the tunnel,” he ordered.The two officers behind them immediately moved to the entrance.Patricia barely noticed.Her eyes remained fixed on Rose.“What does Number One mean?”Rose said nothing.“Rose.”“I told you,” Rose whispered. “Some answers are dangerous.”Patricia stepped closer.“So are lies.”Rose looked at the photograph in Patricia's hand.For several seconds, something passed across her face.Pain.Then fear.Finally, resignation.“Number One was the first.”“The first child?”Rose nodded.Alex frowned.“We already know Patricia was Number Four. So who was Number One?”Rose looked at him.“A child who was never supposed to survive.”Bethwel's expression hardened.“That's a serious statement.”“It is.”“Then explain it.”Rose turned toward

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 153: The Name She Was Given

    The sound of the ambulance door closing echoed across the quarry.Patricia stopped walking.For a moment, she simply stared at the vehicle.Mercy was inside.Alive.Bruised.Exhausted.And somehow, everyone had almost forgotten the most obvious thing.She needed help.Patricia turned sharply.“Where is the officer who stayed with her?”A female police officer stepped forward immediately.“Here, ma'am.”Patricia looked toward the ambulance.“Is she being attended to?”“Yes. The medical officer is checking her injuries now. Inspector Kanda ordered that nobody leaves her unattended.”Patricia's shoulders dropped slightly.“Thank you.”She looked at Rose.Rose had been staring toward the ambulance too.“She's been through enough,” Patricia said quietly.Rose nodded.“She shouldn't be alone.”“She won't be.”Bethwel approached them, his expression grim.“I've assigned two officers to stay with Mercy. One will remain beside her during the medical assessment. If she needs to be taken to hosp

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 152: The Name Grace Gave Her

    The child's cry echoed through the darkness.Patricia froze.It came from somewhere deep inside the quarry.A second cry followed.Then silence.Bethwel immediately raised his weapon.“Everyone stay where you are.”Alex moved closer to Patricia.“Don't move.”Rose stood beside Mercy's stretcher, staring into the darkness.Her face had changed.“That's impossible.”Patricia looked at her.“What?”Rose shook her head.“There shouldn't be a child here.”Bethwel swept his flashlight across the room.Nothing.Only abandoned equipment, cracked walls and shadows.Then the crying came again.This time it was closer.Mercy gripped Rose's hand.“They found it.”Bethwel turned.“Found what?”Mercy looked terrified.“The old nursery.”Patricia frowned.“A nursery?”Merton had remained unusually quiet.Now he stepped forward.“There was one.”Bethwel looked at him.“You knew?”“I knew there had once been a room where the children were kept temporarily.”“Temporarily?”Merton nodded.“Before they w

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 151: Mercy at the Quarry

    The drive to the quarry felt longer than it should have.Patricia sat in the back seat beside Alex, staring through the window at the darkness.Bethwel drove.Rose sat in the passenger seat, silent.Nobody had spoken much since the call.Mercy was alive.That should have been enough to bring relief.Instead, Patricia felt a knot tightening inside her.Mercy had screamed.She had been dragged from the clinic.She had somehow ended up at the quarry.And now she was asking for Rose.“What if she's badly hurt?” Patricia asked.Bethwel kept his eyes on the road.“The officers who found her said she was conscious.”“Did she tell them who took her?”“No.”“Why?”“She wouldn't speak until Rose arrived.”Patricia looked toward Rose.“You knew she'd do that?”Rose shook her head.“No.”“You seem to know a lot about what people involved in this will do.”Rose stared ahead.“I've lived with this for too long.”Alex spoke quietly.“Then perhaps it's time you stopped living around the truth.”Rose

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 150: The Choice

    Patricia could not take her eyes off Rose.“That sentence was beside my name?”Rose nodded slowly.“On the original ledger.”Alex stepped closer.“What exactly did it say?”Rose looked at him.“I don't remember every word.”“But you remember that?”“Yes.”“Why?”“Because Daniel was arguing with someone when I saw it.”Patricia's voice tightened.“Who?”Rose hesitated.“Gabriel.”The name seemed to change the air in the room.Bethwel looked at Merton.“You knew about this?”Merton shook his head.“Not the wording.”Patricia turned back to Rose.“You said Number Four chose Daniel.”“Yes.”“What does that mean?”Rose looked down.“It means the numbers weren't simply assigned to children.”Patricia frowned.“Then what were they?”“Choices.”“Choices made by whom?”Rose's answer was quiet.“By the children themselves.”Alex shook his head.“That doesn't make sense. Patricia was a baby.”“I know.”“Then she couldn't choose Daniel.”Rose looked at him.“Not when she was a baby.”Patricia's h

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    Patricia stared at the glowing phone screen.The message refused to disappear.I miss you Then the second one.When will you tell your wife the truth?Outside, thunder rolled across the skies of Nakuru, shaking the windows of the small house.Her hands trembled.No.There had to be an explanation.

  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 1: The Last Light

    The Wife He BetrayedThe evening sky above Nakuru had turned the color of dying embers.From the balcony of their modest rental house in Kiamunyi Estate, Patricia Sewe stood motionless, watching the last streaks of sunlight disappear behind the distant silhouette of Menengai Crater. The cool July w

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  • The Wife He Betrayed   Chapter 4: The Woman in Red

    Patricia barely slept.Every time she closed her eyes, she saw the photograph.Alex.Smiling.Holding another woman.The image had burned itself into her memory.By dawn, the rain had stopped, leaving Nakuru wrapped in a blanket of mist. The cool morning air drifted through the cracked kitchen wind

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