Billionaire Ex-wife: I Can't Live Without You

Chapter 2178

The stern, aloof face of Nathan was no longer there.

In its place was the image of a handsome yet entirely unfamiliar young man, someone Lucinda had never laid eyes on before.

She approached, suspicion etched on her face.

“During my half year in Forden, I visited almost every two to three days.

Your photo was there before.

When was it replaced?”

Lucinda found it perplexing.

“If the photo had been replaced with the real Nathaniel’s, how could Vivien not know, and not have come to mourn her brother in the past year and a half?”

Nathan gently placed his white flowers before the tombstone and bowed slightly, paying his respects to the departed.

“Last night, just before I went to sleep, I sent an instruction to the Forden Police Department, asking them to replace the photo on the tombstone overnight.

”

“That fast?”

Nathan’s gaze held a peculiar glimmer.

“Would you rather have my photo gracing this tombstone for eternity?”

Lucinda was caught off guard, her response grave.

“Let not such ill-fated words escape your lips.

”

Skillfully diverting the conversation, Nathan broached a different topic.

“Nathaniel, at the tender age of fifteen, met his demise in a tragic accident.

He was my most adept comrade.

The burden of guilt for his passing has weighed heavily upon me…”

Lucinda listened attentively, though she had heard this narrative once before, upon discovering Nathan’s faked death.

She patiently absorbed his words as he recounted the tale.

Nathaniel was enrolled in the military academy affiliated with the National Security Bureau in Stastle from his childhood, Amanda and Vivien Lost touch with him for

was

yet he concealed them until he proposed that I marry

”

etched across

peculiar demeanor undoubtedly bore some connection to the

when I treated you with utmost kindness, nurturing you as if you were my sister? Yet, upon learning of our impending marriage, my demeanor towards you underwent a

”

“Indeed, I do.

”

Roberts

Nathan’s gaze fell dejectedly.

his lips parting several times before he added, “Logan sought me out and revealed

He requested that I…”

inquired, “What did he

to silently end your life and conduct rituals to wed you to the departed Nathaniel, in

”

Lucinda to

mind conjuring the image of Logan’s

malevolent intentions all along

and it’s preposterous that he harbored such superstitions,

It’s truly absurd.

”

“Yes.

Nathan gently touched

protection, and Logan hadn’t

his absurd behavior to the police, I had no choice

spoke harshly to push you away, all in an effort to mislead

”

“I repeatedly told him that our personalities

the Roberts family residence and moved to Bay Villa,

never had

are aware of

our marriage, I frequently had heated arguments with Logan in

safeguarding your life, but I failed to see the toll it

the other members of the Roberts family to scheme against you, leading

was entirely my

”

mind simultaneously

remember that before Logan passed away, he held my hand and implored me not to

you with praise, but it turns out none