NovelBookChapter 416 The Lie About the Hairpins
Chapter 416 The Lie About the Hairpins.
“Mom, things were so dangerous last night. Why would you go back just to grab those cat-shaped hairpins you
gave Lily?”
Bodger furrowed his brow, looking at his mother with a mix of confusion and pain. “I know you can’t let Lily go.
Those hairpins were her birthday present. You didn’t want to see them destroyed in the fire.”
“But con-how could a pair of hairpins be worth your life? How could you...”
Hairpins?
When had she ever gone back for a pair of cat-shaped hairpins?
But hearing Bodger say that brought the memory back. She did remember those diamond cat hairpins.
She gave them to Lily for her eighth birthday.
But when Lily turned eighteen, she had seen it herself-Mathilda, who had just returned to the Ginger family,
snatched them from Lily’s hands.
“Mom, you really shouldn't have gone back for those hairpins.”
“If you hadn't gone back for them, you wouldn't be this badly hurt. You care so much about Lily, and she doesn’t
even care enough to visit you...”
Listening to her sons vent their anger at Lily, Luna finally began to piece things together.
Her injuries had nothing to do with Lily.
She had been hit by that massive portrait because, at the last possible moment, her precious daughter had
shoved her aside-selfishly-just to protect herself.
Clearly, Mathilda was afraid her husband and brothers would find out she was the reason Luna got hurt. So she
lied-she blamed everything on Lily.
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But Luna had already wronged Lily far too many times. How could she let her take the fall for something. she
didn’t do?
“I got hit by that portrait not because | went back for anything. It had nothing to do with Lily.”
“I was hurt so badly simply because-"
“Mom!”
Mathilda shrieked in panic.
She was terrified Luna would reveal what she had done-how she’d pushed her.
She hadn't meant to do it.
She'd just been too scared.
If she hadn't pushed Lunn in the moment, the huge portrait would te landed on her instead.
Lans was already over fory. Even if she got badly binned, even disfigured, it didn’t matter.
But sheshe was only twenty-two. She hadn't even married James yet. If she ended up scarred beyond
recognition, her life would be ruined forever.
Lana noticed the panic and desperation in her daughter's eyes.
That selfish shove from the night before had crushed her.
But when Mathilda was six, it was their carelessness that got her lost, that caused her to be sold into a den of
monsters, where she endured unimaginable suffering. That's what had shaped her into someone so selfish and
self-serving.
In the end, it was their fault. They had let her down. They were the ones who had failed her.
How could she bear to let her beca target now?
In her heart, she whispered, For the last time.
Then, with effort, she bit her tongue and changed her words. “I was hurt because | happened to get hit by the
portrait. It had nothing to do with anyone else.”
At those words, Mathilda let out a quiet sigh of relief.
Thank God. Her mom was still choosing to protect her.
But who could say whether one day, she'd change her mind?
As long as her mother was alive, the truth could still cout.
She couldn't leave a tbomb like that ticking.
“You should all go. | want to be alone for a while.”
Bodger and the others wanted to stay and keep her company.
But Luna clearly didn’t want to talk, and the doctors had warned against spending too much tin the ICU. So
they left.
In the past twenty-four hours since
Luna's accident, Jerhadpy slept
a wink. eve Ede? sons. urged
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snapped, “Mathilda, Mom never went
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“I... 1 didn’t mean to lie, | just thought you'd blme for not protecting her...”
Mathilda looked pale as death. She was struggling to cup with an excuse when Taylor's voice cut through
the air like ice.
“| don't believe for a second that
Randy acted alone when Lily Was
trafficked-or that yutad fothing to
dB vith Mathilda, why did you have
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had blood on their hands. If she'd really fallen into the hands of those monsters, she'd be as good as dead. Why
were you so set on destroying her?”
Thinking about how Lily might've ended up-tortured, used, discarded-if James hadn’t gotten there in time,
Mergan’s face darkened with rage.
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