Chapter 223: Lillian's Past, Colette Lashbrook's Recovery, and the Looske Family Competition Reopens

Pierce Looske had sounded so certain for one reason only: the power in Lillian's bloodline, the Primordial Sacred Body. Colette Lashbrook fell silent. Something complicated flickered through her eyes. She drew a slow breath, then finally spoke, voice steady but soft. "You're right. Lillian isn't my biological daughter." Pierce wasn't surprised. Colette continued, unsealing a memory she had kept buried for years. "Six years ago, on a bitter winter night, I was about to go to bed when I heard a...