Chapter 1578

Inside the hospital room, Patrick was sitting in a wheelchair by the window. He had heard the argument in the hallway loud and clear, but he didn't go out. He didn't want to sit there like some spectacle, enduring the judgmental stares of everyone around him. The whole story Rhea and Anna made up about him and Chantelle on their wedding night was obviously fake. It was like one of those lies that only made things more suspicious. "Why are you looking at us like that?" Rhea snapped with annoyance when she walked in and saw Patrick staring at them. "I told you—we should've gone back to Deppland while we still could. But no, you insisted on staying. If we hadn't, we never would've run into that she-devil Meryl." "You two planned this from the start, didn't you? Every lie rolled off your tongue like it was rehearsed—just so you could put on a show for Terence. You wanted to make him give up on Chantelle and keep him from ever finding out that Janie is his daughter, right?" Patrick, of