Chapter 1094

"No matter what he's done, as long as he carries the Abernathy bloodline, you'll do everything you can to protect him."

Evadne's words were measured and precise, each one cutting straight to the heart of the matter. "But the truth is, even you think his actions were reprehensible. You're angry, you're afraid, and you don't dare expose him. You've been suffocating under the weight of these feelings for years, torn apart inside.

But I believe you still have kindness in you. If you didn't, you wouldn't have braved a snowstorm-sick as you were to visit the grave of that girl."

Suddenly, it all made sense to her.

No wonder Grandfather had always acted so cautiously around Chad, his nerves stretched tight as piano wires.

With a secret that terrible festering inside him, how could his attitude toward his eldest grandson be anything but careful, conflicted?

clenched his

won't tell me the truth,

please don't torment that poor mother any

I lived at the Windermere Estate, she was the maid who looked after me. Her death... it was connected

Evadne's brow furrowed deeply.

revered, she couldn't simply

age, it would have destroyed for life! He's my grandson, the O Abernathy heir-I raised him myself.

to help him cover up Nora's death-made


cold dread washed

Nora's lost life? You swept it all under the rug, but did you ever think

broke with

do you realize what you've done? This is a

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