Chapter 201. Confrontations and Two Bullets

“What?!” Christian’s eyes bulged in shock.

“Excuse me.”
My tone was calm, polite, detached—as if I hadn’t just shattered him with Uncle Pete’s announcement. I walked away, ignoring whatever he had been about to confess about Denise. I had bigger storms unraveling.

But gasps rippled through the crowd behind me.

Then—

A single voice struck like lightning.

“Wait! She is WHAT?!”

I froze.
Slowly, I turned.

And every emotion I’d been suppressing detonated at once—disbelief, shock, betrayal, anger.
Anger was the only one I clung to.

“Denise?”

“In flesh and blood… sister.”

The crowd murmured,