Chapter 217 Stay Here and Deal With the Consequences.

The moment Lexi stepped through the door, she was struck hard across the face. She tried to force a confused smile, but it came out stiff and unnatural. Her entire body was trembling. "Grandma, why are you so angry all of a sudden? Did I do something wrong?" she asked. Without saying a word, Esther shoved a phone into Lexi's hand with a surveillance video already pulled up, then threw a stack of printed photos at her. Her face was filled with rage. "We took you in out of kindness and treated you like our own. I was worried you might feel insecure, so I even declared in front of the entire Scott family that even if we ever found our real daughter, you would still be part of this family. And this is how you repay us? You ungrateful girl!" Lexi didn't dare watch the video. She stared at the photos scattered on the floor. In one, she was seen stopping a nurse who was holding Yvette's blood sample, saying something to her. In another, taken late at night outside the testing lab, she