Evan walked up to Nicole and gently asked, “Nicole, why don’t I take you to see our other three children?”
Nicole knitted her brow. Her vision of Evan started to blur and her head throbbed again. She was unsteady on her feet and passed Juan to Evan. As she cradled her head, she took a few steps forward. Sheila quickly came to support her.
“Are you okay, Nicole?”
Besides her headache, her face was also drained of color.
“Take her home,” Evan instructed Sheila.
“Okay.”
Sheila held onto Nicole as they walked forward. Seeing them leave, the crowd dispersed as well. However, the news shortly dominated various news and media outlets.
Wife of the president of Seet Group is a human trafficker.
The wife of the president of Seet Group is mentally ill.
The president of Seet Group and his wife fought it out with a woman in a mall over a child
Evan Seet’s wife is crazy!
The news spread like wildfire, attracting the attention and speculation of people everywhere.
When news reached the Seet family, they were all extremely appalled. Why would she do something so damning in the middle of a mall?
Sophia’s face was tense with confusion as she scrolled through the trending topics. When she was assured that she had not made a mistake, she looked up at Evan in bewilderment.
“What’s going on? Why did Nicole and Sheila suddenly go to the mall to snatch that woman’s child? How did my daughters-in-law become human traffickers?”
Evan was quiet as he pondered telling Sophia about Nicole’s illness. Looking at the way things are, I don’t think I can keep her in the dark any longer.
I know my mother well. She’s a smart woman. If I don’t tell her the truth, she’ll just hire someone to secretly look into this. It’s better for me to come clean with her now than to have her come up with some convoluted interpretation of her own.
Since Mom likes Nicole so much, she’ll probably only care for Nicole more when she finds out.
After mulling over the decision for a while, Evan announced, “Mom, Nicole is sick!”
“Sick? What is she sick with? What happened to her?”
Evan was upfront with his explanation to his mother. Sophia’s face slowly registered dismay.
“What did you just say? Nicole sometimes has hallucinations?”
“Yes. Someone fed her a hallucinogen.”
“What?”
Sophia’s expression soured intensely.
She was no stranger to hallucinogens. It was a method of torture. When people took them, the worst-case scenario would result in them utterly losing their minds.
When she was at Wicked Palace, she once saw her father use hallucinogens to punish someone.
When first consumed, the person would exhibit mild visions. As their condition worsened, the individual would start to lose their ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Eventually, they would lose grip on all that was real and start behaving erratically.
“How did this happen? How could this have happened?”
The thought of the dangerous drug frightened Sophia, and she started to mutter to herself.
“Mom, Nicole needs to keep calm. So the children will need to stay in the Seet Residence for the time being.”
“Wait, Evan. Your uncle is here. Why don’t you ask him if he has any ideas on how to cure Nicole?”
Sophia stood to fetch Murphy.
When Murphy heard what had happened, he was shocked as well.
“The hallucinogen is only made in Wicked Palace. How could someone have fed it to Nicole?”
The anxiously puzzled Avril and Levant arrived at this time.
When they caught sight of Evan, Levant walked up to question him.
“Is this your doing, Evan? Did you force Nicole to do that for publicity?”
