In the Lap of Luxury
Chapter 404 Rejection

Adeline seemed to lose focus momentarily. Then, she said, "Why do you want to know about this? Isn't it normal for friends to lose contact?"

"But you grew up together, and you must have a deeper relationship than most people. Something in particular must have happened to make you suddenly break off contact with each other, right?" Adeline smiled slightly. "You're overthinking this. It wasn't anything in particular. It was just that our paths in life diverged.

"She's now an internationally renowned designer who's in high demand. I'm just a single mother who was cheated on by a scumbag. I'm just scraping by with this bookstore.

"The two of us live in two completely different worlds. There's no need to bring up the past, is there?"

"Is that true?"

"Why should I lie to you?" Adeline looked perfectly calm.

She asked instead, "Why did you come to me? What's your purpose? I doubt it's that simple, is it?"

Grace voiced out her doubts. "Ms. Wentworth, I won't hide things from you. I suspect that the Jessica we're seeing now isn't the real Jessica. Someone else has replaced her." Adeline looked startled. It took her several seconds to pull herself together.

In disbelief, she said, "You must be joking! A person getting replaced by another person? That only happens in the movies. How could it happen in real life? Stop joking around with me." Grace stated the evidence for her theory. "It does sound ridiculous, but no matter how much a person changes, their blood type won't change. Their design style wouldn't change either." "What are you trying to say?" Adeline sounded harried. She didn't seem to believe what Grace was saying.

However, Grace said, "Five years ago, Jessica was in a car accident that totally ruined her face. Due to this incident, her personality changed completely, and she broke off contact with you. Don't you think that it's strange?"

Adeline looked away and said, half to herself, "What's strange about that? She was in a car accident, and she went through a traumatizing experience. It's normal to change a little. There's no need to speculate too much about it."

"Really? Then let's make a bet."

Adeline looked at Grace in confusion. "A bet? What kind of bet? What's there to bet on?"

"Ms. Wentworth, why don't you call Jessica right now and ask her about a secret that only the two of you know? See if she can answer you and prove whether or not she's the real Jessica."

Adeline refused at once when she heard this.

"Ridiculous! What's there to say about things in the past? What you're saying is completely preposterous, and no matter what you say, I won't believe it! If there isn't anything else, I would like you to leave!" Adeline obviously didn't want to be involved in this any further.

Beside them, Xander suddenly spoke up. "Ms. Wentworth, you can prove the truth of what we say with just one phone call. Why don't you just try it?"

Adeline said, "There isn't any point in trying! I don't contact her much anymore, and it would be too much of a disturbance if I were to call her out of the blue like this.

"I don't care why you came to see me. In any case, I can't help you, so don't come looking for me again.

Thank you for being willing to provide a lawyer to help me with the lawsuit. I don't have anything to say about the rest."