Alpha's replacement bride is destined mate-Chapter 197 You’ve Been Deceived

" I...." Emily hesitated. She wondered whether she should tell the woman in front of her about her memory loss.

" Oh God." Dolly’s face showed a look of surprise and heartache, " It seems you really did lose your memory."

" How do you know me?" Emily asked.

" Emily, we grew up together, we were best friends." Dolly looked at Emily, " Tell me, what happened to you? Why did you stay with Elijah?"

" When I woke up sick, I was already here." Emily said truthfully, " Elijah is my fiance."

"Is that what he told you? " Dolly said angrily," The bastard, He lied to you."

" If Elijah isn’t my fiance, then who is he?" Emily clasped her hands tightly on the hem of her dress, and the feeling of uneasiness grew more and more acute.

" Oh, it’s a long story." Dolly went over to Emily. She took her hand in hers, " Sit down and let me tell you everything."

Emily sat down on the couch, and time seemed to freeze for the moment, and everything around her became a blur, and only Dolly’s voice rang in her world.

At last, after a century, Dolly’s story was at an end, and Emily’s emotions were like a raging sea, the waves rolling in and out, making it difficult to calm down. Shock, anger, grief, despair, all sorts of complex emotions were interwoven and, like a tangle, wrapped themselves tightly about her heart.

She could not believe what she was hearing; the things she had taken for granted were now turned upside down, and Elijah’s lies, the hidden truth, made her feel as if she were in the midst of a great whirlpool.

"Emily, are you okay? " Dolly said with concern, "I know you’re having a hard time accepting the facts—"

"No. " Emily jolted to her feet, her breathing feeling a little heavy. Slowly she went to the window, trying to soothe her inner feelings by getting some fresh air.

Emily’s head began to ache again, and she put her hand to the edge of the window to fight the pain with will-power.

" Emily, what’s wrong with you?" Dolly asked anxiously.

Emily’s face took on a pained expression as she said with difficulty, " I’m fine."

" Let me call the doctor for you, okay?" Dolly looked at Emily in distress, and she tensed.

" No." Emily didn’t want to see the creepy "doctor" again.

Suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning had split Emily’s skull, the pain intensified. She uttered a groan of pain. She was crouched on the ground, her hands on her head, her body trembling violently.

Emily’s fingers closed tightly about her hair, and she tugged at it as if to free herself from this ceaseless pain.

Dolly’s voice sounded hollow in Emily’s ears. It took a while for the headache to go away. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

" Emily, Emily," Dolly called Emily’s name again and again, her face looking panicked.

"I’m okay. " Emily said in a weak voice as she slowly stood up with her hands on the wall.

Emily sank back on the couch, and Dolly poured her a glass of water. After the cold water slowly trickled down Emily’s throat, she slowly regained consciousness.

"Do you always get headaches? " Dolly asked carefully.

" It happens when I wake up." Emily rested her hand on her sweaty forehead, her tone filled with helplessness, " When I get a headache, Elijah gives me a pill. Although it relieves the headache, it always makes me drowsy."

The pill was sitting in Emily’s bedroom, but she had not taken it just then. For she did not want to pass out again, and she wanted to stay awake, even if it caused her pain.

Dolly looked at Emily with pain in her eyes and she said, " When we get back south, I’m going to get you a doctor for your headache."

" We’re going back south? " Emily asked in surprise.

" Yes. " Dolly said," That’s why I came here. I’m going to take you home."

Emily’s face assumed a torn expression. Although Dolly had just told her a great deal about her past, she could not really be sure that Dolly’s words were true.

In addition, Emily is pregnant and Elijah is the father of the baby. She could not make any rash decisions; she had the baby to think about.

Dolly saw Emily’s hesitation and said, "Emily, don’t you believe me?"

"No, Dolly. " Emily explains, "I just need a little time to think about this."

"What else do you need to think about? " Dolly frowned, "Don’t tell me you’re in love with Elijah and you can’t leave him."

"I’m so confused right now. " Emily said, "So far the only people who know me are you and Elijah. And you guys are saying totally different things to me. I... I need to verify which one of you is telling the truth."

"How do you want it verified? " Dolly said, "If you marry Elijah, you won’t have a chance to get out of here."

Emily was lost in thought. In a few days she would be married to Elias. If Elijah had tagged her, it would have meant that she belonged to Elijah entirely. The bond between the choice of MATE will hold the relationship between the two of them.

It would be nice to have a third person who knew her, so she could tell who was lying between Dolly and Elijah.

Suddenly Emily remembered someone. It was a crazy white-haired woman who had tried to strangle her in the garden. The mad woman knew her, too.

Emily took a deep breath as she said to Dolly, "Dolly, I’m sorry for snapping at you earlier during dinner. Because I had to, those maids are Elijah’s eyes and ears and they secretly inform Elijah of what I say and do."

"That’s okay. " Dolly said.

"Now, I want you to keep acting with me. "Emily stated her intentions," because I’m going somewhere."

" What place are you going to?" Dolly asked.

" The Black Tower." Emily said. She remembered that Elijah had said that he had put the white-haired woman in the black tower, and she would go to the woman and ask her questions.