Chapter 96: Surgery.

Ivy was seated in the living room, nursing her baby, when her phone began to ring. She reached over to the couch, grabbed it, and saw her mother’s name flashing on the screen. With a sigh, she answered and switched to speaker.

“Hey, Mom,” she greeted, her tone flat and unbothered.

“They found your sister, Ivy!” her mother’s voice burst through the speaker, trembling with excitement.

Ivy rolled her eyes, clearly unimpressed.

“And let me guess... was she with Jeremy?”

“Jeremy?” her mother repeated, confused. “Why would he be with her? Isla was kidnapped!”

“Or she ran off with my husband,” Ivy replied dryly.

Her mother gasped. “What are you even talking about, Ivy? I called thinking you'd be happy your sister’s been found, and this is the reaction I get? Don’t you even want to know how she is?”

“I’m sure she’s fine,” Ivy muttered. “She just wants attention, and I’m not giving her any.”