A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

Chapter 177

Elyse walked over and took his hand. “Dad, don’t be sad.”,

“How can I not be sad?” The man lost control of his emotions and burst into tears. “Ellen was so ill, yet I knew nothing about it. I’m such an incompetent Dad. She was probably afraid of burdening me further. That was why she hid her illness, pretended to be rebellious, and ran away from home. Back then, I always heard from your grandmother that she was a rebellious child. I believed her, and I even continuously criticized and scolded Ellen. It’s true that Ellen ran away from home, but judging by her health condition… She’s absolutely..

The middle-aged man cried so hard that he couldn’t get the words out. Elyse, too, wiped away her

tears.

Meanwhile, Leo remained standing quietly with a solemn and gloomy expression.

The reason why he spared Elyse was because of her sister, Ellen Clayton.

After his sobbing fest, only then did the middle-aged man come over and hand a small box covered in dirt to Leo. “There are Elie’s diary, medical records, and farewell letter inside this box, which she buried in the backyard. Her uncle discovered it when he wanted to build a pigsty over there a few days ago….. Why don’t you have a look, Mr. Alston?”

Leo took it silently, lowered his head, and opened it.

Inside, there were a few small items lying neatly.

When Elyse saw these items, she choked with tears to the point that she lost her balance and fell into the arms of the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man caressed her back lovingly. “Elie is really a kind young lady. She still worried about El until the day she passed away. Her only hope was that El could live happily. She even said something like asking El to live on her behalf… T-These words… They anguished me like sharp blades.”

And then, he let go of Elyse and walked up to Leo. “Thank you, Mr. Alston. It was a good thing that you were with her for a period of time and gave her happiness before she left this world.”

Leo felt a lump in his throat and couldn’t answer a word as he held the yellowed diary in his hand.

Every word and sentence in the diary were a memory of his past meetings with Big Eyes. He flipped through the diary in silence when suddenly, a page shakily fell to the ground.

Leo looked down and picked it up.

His pupils constricted when he saw the content on the page, and his heart pounded even harder.

At once, a sense of unbearable pain engulfed him.

“Are you okay, Mr. Alston?” Laura, who climbed up from the mountain’s base, hurried over to help him after seeing him in such a state.

However, no matter how hard

no choice but to have someone

mountain.

father, Michael Clayton, watched as they went away. Then, he looked at Elyse with

Find out about what?” Elyse’s eyes were clear, and her gaze was calm and confident. “Everything is real, so

lightly at the tomb. The smile

pain in Leo’s body finally

was beaded with sweat and looked weak,

get for you, Mr. Alston?”

out his phone, and dialed a number. “Help me investigate something,” he said to the person on the other

the errands. Mr. Alston definitely attached great importance to this matter, judging by how he directly bypassed me and sought help from

that, her eyes flickered a few times before she practically blurted, “Mr.

posed that question, only then did she realize she had crossed the line. Therefore, she hurriedly lowered his head and

Leo seemed to not hear anything she said and

gazed far in the distance. At this moment, no

standing inside Leo’s office

recognized this young man. He’s the detective hired

unreliable.

them, so

nodded to Victor, motioning him to take a

the investigation?”

that, Victor spread out some documents in front of him. “Everything the Claytons said

true.”

these then?” he asked again as

checked everything meticulously. He even took out

he closed the box and nodded. “These are real as well. The years basically match the

dead silence after he heard what Victor said. I won’t doubt Victor’s competency, let alone his sentiment. After all, I wouldn’t have hired him immediately if I had no absolute certainty about his competency. In that case, all these can’t possibly be fake

memory lane, Victor had collected Ellen’s notes and everything else. Then, he compared them one by one with the information he obtained. Everything was

diary and farewell letter and that the Claytons

time

would do, he could

“Thank you,” Leo said.

him to take his leave upon hearing those words. Thus, he