Victoria seemed to be very busy after marriage. She had never contacted Grace, not even a phone call or a text message.
Until one month later, in the morning of the United States, in the middle of the night of China, Victoria finally called Grace. On the phone, Victoria's voice was tired, but she tried to hide her emotions, asked Grace about her studies and life with a smile, and then hung up after chatting for a few words. Only in the end, she didn't forget to ask Grace when she would come back to see her.
Grace kept replying that it would be soon, and she would go back when she and brother-in-law had a baby.
At this moment, Victoria was shocked, and made a stupefied statement. Then she answered and hung up the phone.
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After that, Victoria never called Grace again, until three months after she got married, and in the middle of the night, she suddenly called, trembling and choking, "Grace, I can't hold on, I can't hold on, I really can't hold on any longer ..."
"Elder sister, what happened? What happened in the end? " Grace kept asking questions, but Victoria refused to say another word. Later, she burst into tears on the other end of the phone, and the deep despair and collapse spread to the other side of the ocean through the phone, making Grace's heart tremble with it.
Finally, Victoria didn't say a word. When she was about to hang up, Grace suddenly said, "Sister, I'll book a flight right away. Tomorrow night at 12 o'clock, we will meet at the seaside church where we used to go when we were children."
"Really? Great, when you come, I have a lot to tell you, a lot of things ... "Victoria was a little incoherent.
"Well, when I come back, no matter what happens, let me help you solve it. No matter how big the difficulty is, we two sisters will get through it together." Grace said this firmly, just like when she was a child, her sister protected her.
"Okay ..." Victoria choked up and couldn't say a word.
"Sister, do you remember the swing we used to sit on when we were young? Whoever arrives first will wait for each other on that swing, and be there or be square! "
"Well, be there or be square!"
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Grace took the earliest flight to C city, and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, one hour before the appointment.
She found Maria, the nun who had raised her mother in the church. Maria, who was nearly sixty years old, looked at Grace, but shouted Victoria's name.
Victoria and Grace were really alike, almost identical. They were often mistaken when they were young.
Grace smiled and said softly, "Grandma Maria, I'm Grace."
"Grace ..." Maria stared at Grace in amazement, and it took her a long time to react. She took Grace's hand and said excitedly, "It's really you. Since your parents divorced and your mother took you out of C City, I, I thought I'd never see you again ..."
"Now I come back. I will come to see you often in the future. " Grace held Maria's hand, and Maria regarded Grace's mother Anne Hall as her own. When she was a child, Anne often brought her two daughters back to see her. She was like their grandmother.
Maria nodded sadly and said, "It is good to come back, and your sister often comes to see me, but she seldom comes after getting married. Every time she comes, her eyes are red and swollen with tears. Alas, everyone envies her to marry into a rich family, but no one knows that once she enters a rich family, she can't control her own destiny."
"What did my sister say to you? Is she unhappy? " Grace asked with a frown.
"Well, she has a diary with me. Read it for yourself." Maria gives Grace an exquisite diary.
Grace knew Victoria had always had the habit of keeping a diary. When she was a child, she wrote it every day. This diary was very thick, with more than half of it written. How many joys and sorrows were recorded? She was about to open her diary when suddenly there was a rush of cars outside. She said happily, "It must be my sister."
Grace ran out excitedly, a silver Ferrari stumbled in the yard, the door opened, Victoria fell out, her face was horribly pale, her forehead was covered with sweat, her expression was painful and fearful, and a hand stained with blood reached out to Grace.
"Sister ..." Grace rushed over like an arrow and found Victoria's lower body full of blood, with one hand tightly covering her belly and a pair of purple-black eyes full of fear, whispering repeatedly, "Children, children, my children ..."
"Victoria, Victoria, what happened to you?" Maria asked in a panic.
"Call an ambulance ..." Before Grace could finish her words, Victoria suddenly convulsed, her expression twisted and looked horrible, and her mouth mumbled, "It's him, it's him ..."
As soon as she finished her words, she stopped twitching. Her body was limp and collapsed, and there was no movement. Only her eyes were still wide open, and there was fear, panic, pain and frustration.
"Sister, sister, sister, don't scare me. I'll take you to the hospital. I'll take you to the hospital right away."
Grace repeated this sentence incoherently, picked up Victoria trembling, stood in the empty yard, but didn't know where to go. Victoria's blood was stained with her clothes. The strong smell of blood filled Grace's nasal cavity, making her feel suffocated.
Tears, like broken beads, kept falling and flowing into her mouth, and the bitter taste overflowed into the heart and lungs, making her heart twitch with pain.
Maria reached out her hand to feel Victoria’s breath, shuddered and cried in horror: "Victoria is dead, she is dead, she is dead ..."
"No, it's impossible, my sister won't die, won't die, my sister won't die! ！”
Shouts of silence echoed in the bleak night sky, with accusations of fate.
……
Maria called the doctor she knew well, and Doctor Joe officially announced that Victoria died. Because she took a lot of abortion drugs and was stimulated before the accident, she died of blood collapse during abortion.
Doctor Joe sighed deeply, looked piteously at Victoria covered in blood, and lamented, "It's really pitiful. So many abortion drugs must not be taken voluntarily. Alas, that person is really vicious."
This cruel fact, like a knife, severely pierced Grace's heart. She was unwilling, unwilling, and her sister was so kind and weak. Why did she end up in such a miserable fate? Why?
Grace's eyes were full of hatred, her hands clenched into fists, her teeth clenched, and she swore word by word, "Sister, I will definitely find out who hurt you, and I will avenge you, so that those who killed you can get the punishment they deserve!"
"Call the police!" Doctor's reminder sounded.
"With the power of Scott family, it's very easy to kill and silence people, and it won't be useful to call the police. I want to find out the truth in my own way and bring the murderer to justice. Doctor Joe, grandma Maria, you must help me! "
"Grace, what are you doing?" Maria asked in fear.
"From now on, call me Victoria, I'm Victoria!"
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At 2: 30 in the morning, Grace was lying in the bed of Doctor Joe's clinic, wearing Victoria's bloody clothes and holding her mobile phone, and dialed Luis Scott's phone. The phone rang for a long time before someone answered. The man's voice was heavy and strangely hoarse, and he gave an impatient "hello". Then, there was a woman's piercing moan on the other end of the phone: "Luis, don't answer the phone, come on.
"Speak!" The overbearing tone, like giving orders to a servant, had no tenderness or patience at all. This was Luis Scott, Victoria's husband.