Loved You Once But He's My Forever

Chapter 529 The Truth Comes to Light I vividly remembered something Jeffrey had once said-Everly had a dimple on

her cheek, in the same spot as Carter's mother.

Yael had one too, but it was on the opposite side, just like Dominic's.

Amber, however, had no dimples at all.

Amber had originally been a twin, and the only way to tell them apart was by the dimple on one of their cheeks.

Could it be that the person who had been cooking for Carter all these years wasn't Amber at all, but Eleanor Dolton-Carter's mother?

That would explain why she had such a strong reaction upon seeing the Stone of Duality on my neck.

The person standing before me at that moment hadn't been Amber-it had been her!

She didn't want her son to die, so she orchestrated the assassination attempt on

me.

Eleanor wasn't dead.

She had been alive all along.

Thinking back to what Sheila had whispered before she died about Lady Rose, I had initially suspected Amber.

But could it have been Eleanor all along?

I staggered back, nearly losing my balance.

Details I had overlooked began piecing themselves together in my mind. All along, Lady Rose had been pulling the strings behind Sheila, orchestrating my death in my first life.

The fire had been started by that old witch. She had orchestrated everything, manipulated Eleanor into believing Jeffrey was her enemy, and turned her into nothing more than a pawn in her quest for revenge.

She had been rescued from that fire and Carter had been taken to the Boltons. Soon, she disappeared from the world.

Her only reason to stay alive was to take revenge against the Boltons.

Then Carter left the country. And she, under Amber's guise, approached him to protect him.

But what if ...

What if she had wanted me dead from the very beginning?

After all, she was the person closest to Wisteria. And Wisteria was the mastermind behind everything-there was no way she didn't know.

I had never seen Carter's mother before. All I had to go on was what Jeffrey had told me about her dimple.

However, Carter had lived with her for over a decade. How come that a smart man like him could not tell the difference between Amber and his mother?

A chill ran down my spine watching the mother and son exchange a knowing smile.

while Carter, holding the children,

wrong, Chloe? Why

I stammered. "I forgot to take my medicine. I'll go

away, my shaky steps

"Careful."

both children, he reached

his grasp and

my room, I paced in circles,

he knew far more than I had even

and Carter

had been hiding

Eleanor... she had wanted me dead from the start. What

that old witch

My children!

out of the room, only to crash straight into Carter's

"Chloe, what's wrong?"

to change the

were changed a

"I must have misremembered."

placed the children on the bed, and settled

do you have

my lip, unsure how to begin. After all, the person

... You've figured it out,

course. I could never hide

out, how long were you planning to keep this

out a bitter

wrapped around my waist and rested his head against my shoulder as he

you didn't give

we've been through, how could I ever doubt your feelings for me? But the way you handled this made

she only ever appeared before me as Amber, so I believed she was my aunt. It wasn't until the real Amber showed up that I started noticing things. At the time, 'couldn't be sure they were two different people. But when you

but because

mysterious informant who provided

me with intelligence.

for Lady Rose for so long ... I had a pretty

identity."

acknowledge each other's

"No. I kept it from you... and her. She refused to acknowledge me as her son because she felt guilty. And I-I felt guilty toward you because of what she did. I didn't want to disrupt the peace now, so I pretended not to

and pinched his waist. "You're really good at playing neutral, aren't

Chloe. She's

"Fine, fine.

know why she did

of it. "I did some digging and I have a

"Tell me about it."

actually quite

father. But she wasn't stupid-she.only pretended to cooperate, earning Brynn's trust. Without the intelligence she provided, we wouldn't