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 hand. She’d

go to

his voice, Maja set down her glass of water.

needs me constantly, and tonight,

rubbed her forehead

to Wilma, her fans

instead taking a minute before slowly moving

“You should sleep.”

looked at him and

lan heard a soft

something in her sleep, “Mom.”

up and felt her

had a

was off when he saw her

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

at that moment, lan knew that only Lillian was

all her past longing for Lillian

some fever reducers and fed them to her, then wiped her down with a damp

as if she was being roasted on

woke up, her vision was

heard lan talking

project. Are the people I sent

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