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.

behind her, noticing a glass of water in her

you should go to

voice, Maja set down her

company needs me constantly, and tonight, there was an incident with Wilma.”

forehead with her hand.

something happened to Wilma,

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

“You should sleep.”

looked at him and nodded.

heard a soft sob from

was murmuring something in her sleep, “Mom.”

up and

a fever.

was off when he saw her standing on

Even if she was humiliated at

moment, lan knew that only Lillian was

her past

reducers and fed them to her, then wiped her down with

being roasted on a fire all

her vision was

heard lan talking

an eye on this project. Are the people I sent over

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