Caleb also approached. Seeing the fainted woman in Dotson’s arms, he was taken aback. “Why is Miss Moore here?”
Bryson gave Dotson a serious look. “You don’t recognize your own boss?”
Reminded by Bryson, Dotson flinched. He took a closer look at the woman’s face.
Indeed, she resembled Hannah so closely he almost couldn’t tell them apart by starlight. “What… What’s happening?”
“Caleb, take her away and keep her confined. She raises too many questions.”
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Bryson then addressed Dotson, “Inform Hannah about this. It’s up to her to decide whether she wants to see this woman or not.”
“Understood. Dotson gained a newfound respect for Bryson. “Alright, let’s head back, then.”
The following morning, before Hannah left for Wallace, Dotson and the others arrived at her villa.
As Dotson described the woman, Hannah’s brow furrowed slightly. “She looks exactly like me?”
Dotson’s eyes went wide as he nodded vigorously. “It was too dark last night to see clearly. But she’s the spitting image of you, boss.”
“What exactly did Bryson say?”
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“He said it was up to you whether you fancy meeting that woman or not,” Dotson said.
Hannah’s intuition kicked in-Bryson wouldn’t bring that woman back if there wasn’t something fishy about her.
Just then, Winston, Keith, and Trent arrived.
Trent said, “Hannah, time’s ticking. Let’s shuffle off to see Father.”
“Wait. Since you’re here, I have something to tell you,” Hannah interjected, telling Dotson to tell them about their ordeal at the loony bin, including the strange encounter with the woman.
“Do you reckon I should see this woman?”
Winston, mulling it over, asked, “Miss Moore, don’t you find it all a tad too coincidental? You were treated badly when you visited Jade Paradise. You eventually saved Charlie’s life.
You accepted his terms and saved those people from the psychiatric institution. There, Mr. Mitchell met a woman who looked just like you and claimed to be your biological sister.”
Connecting the dots, he couldn’t shake off the feeling that they could have walked right into a trap.
Keith hissed in frustration, “Have we all been played by Charlie? He didn’t aim to save those people?! Did he orchestrate this whole thing to lure Bryson into meeting that woman who’s a dead ringer for you?”
Hannah shook her head, countering calmly, “I highly doubt it. Charlie couldn’t have predicted Bryson’s move to the mental hospital.”
Winston’s expression remained skeptical. “Perhaps he didn’t target Bryson specifically, but anyone stumbling upon that woman would be thrown off guard. Therefore, it would only be natural to fall into their traps.”
They’d just visited Jade Paradise, but already things seemed out of hand.