Chapter 258

Room. Jenny was visibly on edge. Sitting by the bed, she stared at her reflection in the vanity mirror, her fingers nervously intertwining. Do she and Kimberly Hale really look that different? What if everything falls apart once she's exposed? It was pretty clear now—Beckett didn't buy her act. He didn't believe that she was really Kimberly Hale's biological daughter. If Beckett started digging and pushed for another DNA test, then everything she built would come crashing down. All this scheming… for nothing? She squeezed her hands tighter, her heart pounding like a war drum. What caught her off guard the most was how fiercely Beckett was shielding Madeleine. She'd thought this man only cared about power and alliances—figured as long as she had the Hale name, he wouldn't care who she really was. But now? He'd publicly flashed a marriage certificate in front of the Hales and Julian just to defend Maddy. That was basically a slap across Julian's face. To throw the whole Beach family alli