Family on Their Knees Heart Turned to Ice novel Chapter 538

Martin couldn't bring himself to say a single word in Sabrina's defense. His mind was consumed with calculating numbers, leaving no room to think about her.

Sabrina hadn't expected such a reversal either.

The Mercer estate had no cameras. As long as she had solidified the narrative on the day of the miscarriage that Lillian was responsible, Lillian wouldn't have been able to clear her name even if she had eight mouths.

She had thought her plan was flawless. Now she understood why Lillian had been released from police custody so quickly.

She had been holding onto this crucial piece of evidence all along.

It was only then that Sabrina figured it out. Lillian’s relationship with Martin and his sons had already deteriorated so badly, so why had she been willing to come back to recover?

It was a pretext. Lillian had come back to find an opportunity to secretly install cameras in the house.

What was she hoping to capture?

That, of course, depended on what she and Bella would do.

Those two years in prison had completely alienated Lillian from the Mercer family. Seeing her mother-in-law in the house had put her on high alert.

Perhaps Lillian hadn't anticipated that she would use her late-in-life child as a pawn, but Lillian had been determined to catch her in any wrongdoing.

She never imagined she'd catch something this big.

What was most infuriating was that Lillian had installed the cameras long ago and had possessed this video, yet she had held onto it, waiting for this specific moment to release it and deliver a fatal blow to the Mercer family.

Once Sabrina connected all the dots, she could have bitten her tongue off with regret.

She quietly endured the pain as her mind raced. The most urgent thing now was to deflect responsibility.

What made Sabrina grit her teeth with hatred was that this was happening at such a critical moment for Bella and Sebastian's marriage.

If this incident jeopardized that crucial union, the whole scheme would have been for nothing.

Sabrina seethed. She had never expected Lillian to be so calculating and prepared.

At this point, she had no other choice. She swallowed her pride, stood up, and threw herself into Martin’s arms, weeping.

“Martin, I didn’t mean to treat Lillian that way. On the day of your birthday party, we argued upstairs. Before we left the room, she threatened me. She said she would kill the baby in my belly.

Her words were all I could think about, so when I fell down the stairs, my first thought was that she had done it.

Martin, you have to believe me. That was our late-in-life child. I would never use my own baby to frame Lillian.”