Chapter 1052

Fitch rifled through the documents in front of him, the truth becoming even more unbearable.

“Seemed like it. Clara was a woman of the night over in Crystalbrook Valley. You know how things were over twenty years ago; the law wasn’t as tight as it is now. Drew was a thug who landed himself in prison for a few years for messing with the neighbor’s daughter. When he got out, he married Clara. Drew had a crippled brother in the family. Drew had caught Clara seducing his brother, and he suspected that when Maja was born, she might be his brother’s child. That’s why he sold her away. The hospital records even show that the crippled brother was the father.”

The truth was even more distasteful. A mother who had an affair with her husband’s brother, resulting in her. And the biological father was a poor cripple with a questionable character.

“lan, I’ve had the couple interrogated. That was the information we’ve gathered. I’ve always had people in Crystalbrook Valley, but that situation is a tricky one. Clara and Drew’s information has been thoroughly examined by the circle. You know how it’s been since the incident in Solstice Spire, many families have sent people over, fearing something unknown happening.”

So Crystalbrook Valley, that remote and impoverished place, was always under everyone’s surveillance.

lan lit another cigarette.

If Fitch’s people had found these results, then if he were to investigate again, the outcome would be the same.

Even if he had great capabilities, events from twenty years ago were impossible to verify, especially when those involved had disappeared without a trace.

He did not light his second cigarette but merely held it in his mouth.

After hanging up the call, he set down his cigarette and returned upstairs.

Maja was awake, standing on the balcony, lost in thought.

walked up behind her, noticing a glass of water in her hand. She’d probably woken

should go

set down her glass of water.

sorry, I’ve been swamped recently. The company needs me

forehead with

to Wilma, her

respond, instead taking a minute before slowly moving towards her and

“You should sleep.”

at him and nodded.

hour later, lan heard a

was murmuring something in

up and felt her

a

something was off when he

seemed strong. Even if she was humiliated at a party, she

that only Lillian was Maja’s emotional hang–up.

biological parents appeared, all her past longing for

her, then wiped her down with a damp cloth in an attempt to lower

she was being roasted on

she woke up, her

lan talking

project. Are the people I

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