Dolores sighed, “It’s my choice to kneel here. Come back. Stella comes with you, right?”

“Nathan has sent her back. I come here to ask you a question.”

“I know what you want to ask. I’ve heard of some things on the way here. I don’t know what Joanna had done when she was alive, but the one backing her up is not the James family. And the baby’s sickness has nothing to do with the James.”

Clarence asked, “Then what about you?”

Dolores replied after a while of silence, “Clare, ever since I left the James family, I’m no longer a member of the family. This is the reason why I haven’t told you about this.”

“Now that you’ve left, why do you come back again?”

“Because I regret it. I regret that impulsive choice. I don’t want to regret it for the rest of my life, so I come back to do something that I can do.”

“I have many questions before I came to the James family, like your relationship with the James family, what drives Vincent to stay by my side for many years, what happened twenty years ago and what the James family’s roles in those things were.”

“Clare…”

Clarence continued indifferently, “But these puzzles were solved when I found you here.”

Dolores slightly knitted her brows and moved her lips trying to say something.

Clarence said in a calm voice, “You’re Darnell’s aunt, the only and beloved daughter of the previous patriarch. Although he was angry that you insisted on leaving Riverside because of a man and therefore cut off the relationship with you, he was still worried about you a lot.”

“Especially when he learned that the man who deceived you to City N had a wife and a son and didn’t give a shit about your life, he wanted to seek revenge for you and pave the way for your son, so he bribed the driver of the Conrad family and created a car accident. Justin…”

interrupted him, “It’s not like this. Your grandfather didn’t do

hard to read Clarence’s expression as he continued, “I

Dolores suddenly felt weak.

car accident, he finally recalled that he had an illegitimate son who didn’t live with him. Then he took the illegitimate son back to the Conrad family regardless of other people’s objections. Things progressed according to the previous patriarch’s plan. But he also knew that

James family to stay by that illegitimate son’s side and help him. At the same time, that man could send

paused before adding, “This is the story that happened

head lightly, “It’s not

you have

her lips trying to explain

plotted by her

this. We’ve known each other for nearly twenty years. What are the reasons for him to frame me? Only now

appreciate his favours so that I could get rid of

towards

grew up in a broken alley, but step by step, I became the CEO of the Conrad Group and snatched everything that Justin once

would think so, so she didn’t allow Darnell to

had said numerous times that it was me who snatched Justin’s things, and I once felt angry and aggrieved. For me, that car accident is simply an accident and it is the two drivers to be blamed. I thought it had nothing to do

it turns out that Joanna’s accusation was right. It was me who caused Justin’s sufferings. If not because of me, the car accident would not have happened and Justin would still be

choked with sobs, “Clare, you didn’t do anything wrong. I’m the

I was wrong that I had lived without any guilty for many years and I was wrong that I hadn’t known about this earlier.” Clarence continued, “It’s your choice to come back to the James family to show your filial piety and I’m not qualified to oppose it. Just let it be. Darnell is the patriarch

the words, Clarence stood

around,

his figure disappeared in the ancestral hall

worried that he would

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