A Love Trap

Chapter 376 Self Justification

'Windfall?

Well, you can say that if you like. The daughter of the owner of the Gu Group. That's way better than a windfall or winning the lottery.'

They didn't have much to do in school that day. They were seniors and they were graduating soon so they weren't as busy as the other students from the lower grades. Today, they had actually planned on going shopping.

Originally, they were going to go shopping with Mona too but she'd gone to see her boyfriend which left Angelina and Jennifer alone.

When they went into their first boutique, Angelina's phone started ringing. It was an unknown number. She had initially thought of ignoring the call but eventually decided to answer it.

She told Jennifer to go ahead as she stepped out to answer the call.

After a short while, she came back into the shop and looked like she was in a hurry.

"Jennifer, I'm so sorry but I can't go shopping with you today anymore. There's been an emergency and I'm afraid I have to deal with it now."

Jennifer was busy checking a dress. She raised her head and asked, "What's the emergency?"

"It's a long story. I have to go now. I'll go shopping with you next time. See you," Angelina said.

Then she hurriedly left.

As Jennifer watched her back disappear out of the door, she mumbled to herself, "What could be so important? I can't believe you just ditched your friend like that without so much as a decent explanation.

Um, I'm not in the mood to go shopping anymore. I'd better get back home too."

Then she also left.

As soon as Angelina left, she hailed a taxi and immediately got inside. "Please drive to the S hospital."

The call she had received was from the doctor. She had asked them to call her when the results were out.

She patted herself on the chest for thinking of that because if the hospital hadn't called her, she would have forgotten all about it.

As soon as she arrived at the hospital, she rushed inside. She immediately headed to the reception desk "Hi, I'm Angelina Li. I received a call. I was told my results were available already."

The doctor was a woman and she seemed to be in her late thirties to her early forties. She glanced at Angelina before she flipped through the piles of documents in front of her. After a while, she handed one to Angelina.

Angelia hastily grabbed it. "Thanks."

She then opened the envelope right then and there.

As her eyes skimmed the file, her body turned stiff.

She blinked and rubbed her eyes to make sure she didn't read it wrong.

She and Jeremy weren't related at all.

It didn't match the files Jeremy had shown her before.

She tried to steady herself, then she looked up at the doctor and asked, "Doctor, are you sure this is right? Could you have possibly made a mistake with this?"

The doctor frowned as she stared back at Angelina. "No, that's not possible at all."

"But..." 'But this invalidates the test Jeremy showed me last time.

If this is right, then Jeremy's results were wrong?'

She thanked the doctor again before leaving.

She grabbed the piece of paper tightly with both of her hands as she mindlessly walked back.

'So this test result is right?'

She didn't know why there would be a discrepancy in the test results Jeremy had shown her before but she also knew that the hospital couldn't have possibly made a mistake.

Should she tell Jeremy about this? That they in fact had no blood relationship at all.

They didn't know that the one they had was mistake. This one was the right one.

She couldn't pretend otherwise.

But then she thought of how nicely Jeremy had been treating her and how affectionate Belinda was toward her. Then she hesitated. She wasn't so sure anymore.

They were so excited to find their long lost family member.

They'd be so disappointed if they found out they had mistaken her for someone else.

Maybe she could be Camelia for a while then when the real Camelia showed up, she'd give way to her.

She just didn't want Jeremy to be disappointed anymore. She didn't want Belinda to get hurt either.

As she thought about it, the more she was convinced. She tightened her grip on the piece of paper in her hands. She told herself that she'd be Camelia until the real Camelia showed up. When she did, she'd tell the truth.

However, this was quite naive of her. It was easier said than done. She hadn't tasted the luxurious life yet. She didn't know how difficult it would be to let it go when the time came.

While she was justifying her decision in her mind, her phone started ringing again.

She was preoccupied as she impatiently fished for her phone in her bag. She didn't ease up when she saw the caller ID. If anything, it stressed her out more.

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They had never called her before.

Maybe they wanted something from her.

When she thought about it, she decided she wasn't going to answer the call anymore. She just let it ring. However, they seemed to be quite persistent. After the ringing had stopped, they started calling again.

Angelina was tempted to mute her phone so she wouldn't hear the ringing anymore.

But on second thought, what if they did have something important to tell her?

So she finally answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Come back home this instant! I don't care what you're doing right now. Just come home immediately." It was Hannah's voice. She sounded impatient the way she normally did when she gave out orders like this to Angelina.

Angelina furrowed her brows. 'Do I really have to go home whenever she orders me to?

Why is she so bossy?

I have other things to do.'

So she responded, "I have lots of other things to do. I can't go home today. If you have something important to say, just tell me over the phone."

Hannah flew into a rage when she heard this. 'What a little bitch! Just because you're a bit grown up now you think you can defy me like that?'

Just as she was about to retort back, a gentle voice came, "Is that Angelina? Can I have a few words with her?"

Hannah had to swallow back her sharp tongue. She looked at Belinda who was sitting gracefully at the couch. Hannah replied, "Sure."

Belinda took the phone from her and put it close to her ear. Then she said with a little excitement, "Hi, is that Angelina? Where are you? I'm at your home! Do you have time? Can you come back home?"

When Angelina first met the Gu family, Belinda was able to acquire Angelina's home and school address from Jeremy.

Belinda was out for the day so she decided to grab the chance to visit Angelina.