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Connor laughed maniacally.

But Holly was shocked by his words and stared at him. in disbelief, “What are you saying? How is that

possible!”

After several thoughts flashed through her mind, she looked at Connor incredulously. “So you mean, you and Isla, you guys are actually…”

Connor’s smile faded from his face. “Yeah, her mom is

my aunt…”

He then lowered his head, covering his face. “Do you

want to call me a bastard? But I didn’t know. How

could I have known!!”

All he knew was that his dad was a gambler.

In those dim days when everyone despised them, Isla was like a ray of light shining into his life.

Isla tutored him and took him out to enjoy delicious food…

She was like a fairy from high above, and he couldn’t help but become infatuated with her.

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He had just fallen for the girl next door, who was only

two years his senior. So, after getting into college, they couldn’t contain their feelings.

He truly didn’t understand anything.

Then Isla told him that his dad was threatening her, asking her for two million… but where could she find two million? Isla cried miserably, which made him conceive the idea of killing his father!

His father could harm anyone in the world, but he absolutely couldn’t harm Isla!!

Connor devised a perfect plan…

He took the money to the abandoned hospital to find Finley, took out his phone, and had Finley record those words, fooling him into thinking that if Keira caused him any harm, he could use those words to threaten

Keira.

Finley wasn’t a good father and had gambled away everything.

But Finley was also a good father.

Connor’s tuition fees were all scammed by him, but Finley at least never let Connor go hungry.

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In this world, his only concern was Connor.

After recording, Finley told him, “I have something on Isla. It’s with this that I make her behave. If something really happens to me, you can use that to threaten

her.”

Connor nodded. He wasn’t interested in the leverage on his old flame… he just wanted to help her get rid of

this man!

Finley toward

him!

the steel bar pierced through Finley’s chest, he was in disbelief and stuttered, asking, “Why,

my head in front of others, that’s one thing, but you should never have threatened Isla! Dad, she is

love the

be in love with her? You cannot, you cannot…”

only one who’s been

died. Mustering the

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of his life, “But she’s your

personally switched her at

aunt!”

more words left after that shout.

dumbfounded at the time.

the meaning

jumped out the window to escape and then, following the original plan, re-entered the room. His

sacrificed his father, and that complicated emotional state

shocked emotions fit the scene

the time.

dorm room, and lying on his bed

dared not think about.

understood why when everyone else

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was dirty and had no means of taking a bath

and her smiling

it turned out, was

truly liked him; she just feared that angering him might displease Finley, and thus she went along with his unrequited love.

that wasn’t it…

his face with a blanket, tears rolling down from the corners of his

that in this world, the person who loved him most had always been his father, but still, he was unwilling to

on, Keira began waging a war of public

from the slurs at school, that his mindset had become problematic, and

www

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out, Isla

impatient.

to wish for nothing more

ties with him.

understood the truth, and the more guilt and sorrow he

that secret as a threat, forcing her

he would be like his father, that just by revealing that secret, she would be threatened by

well. She was aware of his indecisiveness,

she threatened

seemed to be in some

he was

that he had been losing

start.

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and

seen through his facade

the murder was already known,

possibly allow Isla, who had induced him to kill his biological father, to live

outside?

mad at

wanted to expose Isla’s secret!!

was apprehended, when his phone was examined and turned over to the police, he

she was

for five

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