The Lord Mayor Falls in Love with Me

care of her. However, Mrs Linderman was not bothered to pay a visit at all.

In fact, Joey didn't treat Mrs. Linderman as her mother anymore. Back then, Joey was hospitalized for more than twenty days when she had a miscarriage. During that time, she was emotionally unstable. Luckily, Mr. Linderman and Allen Charles were there to take good Rome wasn't built in a day. Since then, Joey could no longer forgive Mrs Linderman. She was heartbroken and disappointed with her. Hence, she only acknowledged Mr Linderman as her father.

When Vivian did not tell Joey the truth, Joey said, "It is fine if you don't open up. I'll tell Samantha and Martin what you did. If the Moore family knew you had impersonated as one of them, you would be done."

"No!"

Vivian became nervous when Joey said that. She was afraid that Joey will expose the fraud that she had convicted. She held her hands and pleaded, "Sister, we're family. Please don't do so..." "Stop pretending! Who's your sister?Don't you feel shameful calling me sister?"

Unceremoniously, Joey shrugged off her hand. Joey was disgusted as she knew Vivian was a hypocrite. Then, she said coldly, "I'll ask you one last time, do you want to tell me the truth?"

"I will tell you!"

Vivian had to compromise as Joey was pissed off, she said guiltily while gritting her teeth, "Samantha had a daughter before she married into the Moore family. Her daughter was fostered in our village. The first time I met Samantha was when Dad had a severe injury. That time, I felt like the way she looked at me wasn't right. When her husband passed away last month, she approached mom and wanted to acknowledge me as her daughter. I had objections that time as I knew Samantha made a mistake. But mom told me that if I could impersonate as Samantha's daughter, I will become wealthy effortlessly. That was it. I just wanted to have some good time there. I didn't do anything else!"

Joey had doubts. Indeed, what Vivian said was true. However, Samantha made a mistake because Mrs Linderman deceived her. Mrs Linderman claimed that Vivian was her daughter instead of Joey.

And of course, Vivian impersonated very well as Samantha's daughter.

Vivian knew if she were found guilty of the fraud, she would be done.

Joey felt something fishy was going on. She sensed that Vivian was still hiding something. Why would Samantha regard Vivian as her daughter when she saw her at first sight.

Moreover, chronologically, Samantha gave birth to her daughter before she married into the Moore family. Hence, her daughter should be older than Martin. Oddly, Martin was 24 years old, but Vivian was 23 years old.

It was apparent that the age didn't match up. How could Samantha make such a silly mistake?

The more Joey thought about it, the more she felt that something was not right.

Vivian was worried that Joey would become suspicious when she found out the age didn't seem to add up.

Hence she pleaded again, "Sister, I was wrong back then. I shouldn't be fighting with you over everything. I apologize for my mistake. Please don't expose me. Or else, I will not be the only one who are going to be in the hot soup. Our family would be in big trouble as well. If that happens, we are going to have some tough times. For the sake of our parents, can you don't mention it anymore?"

Joey was not listening to Vivian; she was deep in her thought. She had a bold idea that drove her heart to pump rapidly. She pushed away Vivian, who was still murmuring and she headed towards Samantha and Martin. "Joey..."

Vivian shrieked from behind. Her face became pale. She then chased after her hurriedly.

Vivian had a bad feeling. She might lose everything she had from the Moore family very soon.

At the dining table, Samantha and Martin were looking at the menu. They were startled when they saw Joey rushing to them. Joey was staring at them. Then, all eyes fell on Joey. "What's wrong?"

Samantha couldn't help but ask with concern. Joey looked serious; something might have happened.