Chapter 304 The Return of Miranda
Chapter 304 The Return of Miranda
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The person who stepped out of the lift made Tracy freeze in place. The folder slipped from her hands and scattered across the floor.
Tracy didn’t snap out of it until that familiar figure was nearly at the door. She scrambled to pick up the papers and rushed after her. “M… Miranda!”
Her clear foreign language carried through the hall, drawing every pair of eyes–including those on the poised woman in a fitted suit, surrounded by people treating her with respect.
The woman stopped in shock upon seeing her. “Tracy? What are you doing here?”
Then, her eyes widened after realizing something. “Wait! You’re the representative of Jackman Enterprise who came to negotiate with us?”
Tracy nodded, her expression conflicted.
She didn’t expected that the person she had been searching for all this time would turn out to be her former sister–in–law–the woman everyone believed was long dead.
“Miranda, you
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Tracy didn’t even know how to begin.
Miranda understood. With a sigh, she ushered Tracy into her office before speaking.
Back in Cloudville, Miranda’s family might not have rivaled the Jackmans in size, but they were still among the wealthiest in the city. Their villas were next door, and she and Andrew had grown up
side by side.
Both were bright, and both were raised as heirs. They were the golden couple–perfect on paper and adored by everyone. Naturally, the two ended up as a pair.
In Cloudville, their names meant the model husband and wife.
But all of that started to unravel the year Erin returned to the Jackmans.
With the real and the fake daughter living under the same roof, conflicts were inevitable.
Every time there was friction, Andrew sided with his sister Erin. Miranda, however, always supported Tracy.
Over time, that division grew into real cracks between husband and wife.
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Chapter 304 The Return of Miranda
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The breaking point came on Andrew’s birthday. Miranda was on her way home to surprise him when she was kidnapped.
She never made it. It was raining hard, the road was slick, and the car veered off course, plunging into the sea.
At the time, she was three months pregnant. She and the baby were presumed lost forever.
When the investigation wrapped up, all the evidence pointed to Miranda and Tracy staging the kidnapping–an elaborate hoax meant to turn Andrew against Erin.
Andrew’s love curdled into hatred.
No matter how Tracy begged or tried to explain, he nearly killed her more than once.
The event left a scar on Tracy’s heart that never healed.
Tracy had asked herself a thousand times: if she had chosen to walk away the moment Erin came home, if she had refused to fight or compete at all, would Miranda have avoided those arguments with Andrew? Would she still be alive?
But now Miranda told her the truth.
“Tracy, none of it was your fault. It was Erin’s. She hired the men who kidnapped me. The car didn’t slide off the road because of the rain–Erin meant to drown me. I only drove us into the sea because I was fighting back.”
Miranda had been lucky. The rescue team sent by her family pulled her from the water just in time.
She survived, but the baby in her womb didn’t. The violent impact had taken that life away.
Miranda, filled with anger and grief, dragged her weak and battered body to Andrew–only to find him with his hands locked around Tracy’s throat, his face twisted in rage as if he meant to kill her.
“Erin heard you on the phone with Miranda,” he snarled. “You staged a kidnapping to trick me. What excuse do you have now? If anything happens to Miranda, you’ll pay with your life!”
In that moment, Miranda felt her heart tear apart as though crushed in a giant’s grip.
She and Tracy had grown up by Andrew’s side. No one should have known them better than
he did.
Yet one claim from Erin–that she had heard it with her ears–was enough for him to
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