Chapter 225

Alice Sterling swayed a little, her face completely drained of color. Her voice was raspy, strained to the point of pain. “Why are you asking me that all of a sudden?” Stephen Collins’s brows furrowed instantly. He walked over to the TV and switched it on. A news interview was playing. The man being interviewed was middle-aged, wearing a mask and a baseball cap pulled low, hiding most of his face. Sitting across from him was a well-known host from Lychee Channel. “You said your adopted daughter abandoned you. Can you tell us more about that?” The man immediately covered his face and started sobbing. Through broken sobs, he said, “She had a rough life, lost both her parents young. I was her neighbor back then, watched her grow up. After her parents passed, I took her in.” “I wasn't someone who could give her a fancy life, but I did my best, paid for her schooling from middle school through university. Never thought she’d just cut me off after going away to college. And now I turn on the