Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 338

Chapter 338: Chapter 338: The Scapegoat

Melody Summers and Winnie Summers had stayed out late at the party last night. By the time they got home, the rest of the family was already fast asleep, and the entire house was steeped in tranquility.

They tiptoed into the bathroom, quickly washed up, and climbed into bed, drifting off to sleep soon after.

The chance encounter with Elaine Hughes didn’t affect Melody Summers’s mood. She slept soundly and peacefully.

For the first time in a long while, she dreamed she was back on Mount Anworth.

Heavy snow had fallen on Mount Anworth in the winter. She and Ian Summers, bundled in padded jackets, were rolling in the snow, having snowball fights, and building snowmen...

When she woke up, it was already light outside.

Melody Summers shook off the dream, rubbed her eyes, stretched, and climbed out of bed.

She walked to the window and pulled open the curtains, a gust of bone-chilling wind hitting her face. Melody Summers took a deep breath. The frigid air stung her lungs, a refreshing sensation she hadn’t felt in a long time.

The snow had started late last night, and by this morning, a layer had already accumulated outside, blanketing the entire world in white.

Flakes drifted down one after another. Unlike the black snow from before, these snowflakes were pure white, like swarms of white butterflies dancing in the air.

Melody Summers saw people on the floors of the opposite building placing bowls and basins on their balconies to catch the snow, likely to use as drinking water.

It was still early, and property management hadn’t started clearing the snow yet. Many residents were standing in the plaza with basins and buckets, collecting the snow from the ground.

After such a long drought, any source of water was incredibly precious.

During breakfast, Melody Summers took out her phone and saw that Lucy White had sent her a lot of messages.

She hurriedly opened the messages to read them. From what Lucy White wrote, she pieced together everything that had happened last night.

After she left yesterday, Zane Simmons had quickly investigated the whole affair based on the information on Joanne White’s phone and her "confession."

It was The Lancasters who had contacted Joanne White, asking her to help them connect with Bernard Simmons.

The rest was just as Melody Summers had guessed. Robert Lancaster and Bernard Simmons hit it off immediately. Robert made his wife, Elaine Hughes, sell her body in exchange for shelter and supplies from Bernard.

To ensure Elaine Hughes’s cooperation, Robert Lancaster and Bernard Simmons drugged her food. Once the drug took effect, Robert made an excuse about having something to do and left, leaving his own wife to another man.

Bernard Simmons took Elaine Hughes to the room and was just about to get down to business when Paige Walsh, who had rushed over, caught him in the act.

Paige Walsh was furious. She had someone take Elaine Hughes out and send her directly back to the Lancaster Family.

And that led to the scene Melody Summers had witnessed in front of the elevator.

Everything up to that point was within Melody Summers’s expectations, but what happened next was a complete surprise.

When the whole affair came to light, Joanne White was terrified. On top of that, this pregnancy came very soon after her last delivery, and her body hadn’t fully recovered yet.

Joanne White had a frail constitution to begin with, and her pregnancy had been unstable. Due to the combination of all these factors, she had an unexpected miscarriage last night.

Fortunately, The Nimbus Hotel had plenty of doctors and was well-stocked with medical supplies. Thanks to the doctors’ best efforts, although the baby was lost, Joanne White’s life was not in danger. She would recover after a period of rest.

Unfortunately, Joanne White’s miscarriage didn’t earn her any pity from Zane Simmons. He had investigated and found out that it was Joanne who had secretly added food that Paige Walsh was allergic to into her meals.

Furious, Zane Simmons had people send the bedridden Joanne White back to the White Family that very night.

He gave her no severance payment, cut off the monthly supply deliveries to the White Family, and recalled the bodyguards he had sent to protect Mr. and Mrs. White.

Lucy White said that Joanne White was completely unable to accept this outcome.

Joanne White had originally thought that Zane Simmons’s defense of her in front of Zara Walsh, and the fact that he brought her to The Nimbus Hotel for shelter, meant that he genuinely liked her. She believed she was different from the other women he kept on the side.

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After breakfast, Melody Summers logged into The Arcadia Store again. She had sent Paige Walsh a message earlier and wanted to see if she had replied.

She hadn’t been worried, but one look gave her a shock.

Paige Walsh had sent her over sixty messages yesterday!

Seeing the red dot indicating a double-digit number of messages, Melody Summers quickly tapped it to see what was going on.

Frowning, Melody Summers scanned through all the messages and realized that Paige Walsh seemed to be using her as a sounding board...

First, Paige Walsh replied to Melody Summers’s message, telling her not to worry. She said that if Zara Walsh had really done such a thing, neither she nor the Simmons Family would cover for her, and they would definitely make her pay for her actions.

Reading this message, Melody Summers felt a little relieved.

However, Paige Walsh’s subsequent messages were rather bizarre.

Paige Walsh said that she had been resting in the medical room at The Nimbus Hotel last night due to her allergic reaction, but she had suddenly received the message from Melody Summers.

Her allergic reaction had made her feel very unwell, so she had silenced all her work-related notifications, but she had made a special exception for Melody Summers, setting up a unique alert for her messages.

So, when Melody Summers’s message came through, it startled Paige Walsh from her sleep.

After waking up, she casually replied to Melody Summers. She had planned to go back to sleep right after, but for some reason she couldn’t explain, she had a subconscious urge to go back to her room and check on things.

Perhaps it was a twist of fate. Paige Walsh left the hotel’s medical room and went back to the presidential suite.

And that’s when she walked in on the scene of her own husband having an affair with The Lover, in her own room...