"Who?"
Juniper's heart seized violently. She took a step closer to the bed, her voice cracking. "Please, say that again. I don't think I heard you."
"Coralie Quill!"
Assuming Juniper simply didn't know who she was, the Director helpfully pulled out his phone and swiped to a photograph to show her.
The woman in the photo looked to be in her early twenties. She wore absolutely no makeup, her face clean, radiant, and undeniably youthful.
It was a stark contrast to the heavily made-up, seductive, and fiercely glamorous Coralie Quill that Juniper knew.
They looked like two completely different people.
Coralie Quill.
It was really her.
So Shanley hadn't been talking nonsense when he said her back looked exactly like Ebony Fox's.
If her sixth sister hadn't been wearing such thick makeup, would Juniper have recognized her immediately?
"Thank you."
Juniper stared at the photo, a brilliant, tearful smile slowly blooming across her face. "Thank you so much for giving me the best news of my life."
She silently thanked the heavens for protecting her family and bringing her sixth sister back to her in one piece.
"You don't need to thank me."
The Director shook his head, wiping away his tears. "That girl has suffered so much over the years. She acts like nothing bothers her, but inside, she's drowning in pain."
"Ms. Payne, please... take good care of her."
"I will."
Juniper promised, nodding vigorously. Her mind flashed back to Coralie drunk and barefoot in the garden, crying on her shoulder about how unfair the world was.
A sharp pang of guilt and sorrow pierced her heart.
But that didn't matter now.
Coralie was about to find out that fate hadn't abandoned her after all.
She would never be alone again. She had a family. A massive family.
"Shanley, give me my bag."
Juniper took a deep, shaky breath and turned to look at the man beside her. She didn't notice how unnaturally pale he was. "Her business card is in there."
She needed to call her sister right this second.
Shanley gripped her bag, his mind racing in absolute panic.
Juniper's sixth sister was Coralie Quill?!
So the "overflowing adoration and tenderness" Coralie had been directing at Juniper wasn't romantic love... it was sisterly love?!
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