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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!

pushed Finley toward the steel bar

him!

chest, he was in disbelief

coldly. “You made it so I can’t lift my head in front of others, that’s one thing, but you should never have threatened Isla! Dad, she

love

in shock. “How can you be in love with her? You cannot, you

who’s been kind

he died. Mustering the last of

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of his life, “But she’s your

her

aunt!”

had no more words left after

at the

savor the meaning of these words, because outside Keira had

re-entered the room. His mind buzzing, he

time, he had just sacrificed his father, and that complicated emotional state was

shocked emotions

the time.

completing the statement, returning to his dorm room, and lying on his bed staring at the ceiling,

were things he dared not think

he understood why

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and

he was dirty and had no means of taking a bath

her smiling face was beautiful

her approach, it turned out, was

had never truly liked him; she just feared that angering him might displease Finley, and thus she went along with his unrequited love. That was why he didn’t dare to reject his advances!

that wasn’t it…

blanket, tears rolling down from the corners of

realized that in this world, the person who loved him most had always been his father, but still,

began waging a war of

down from the slurs at school, that his mindset

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her out, Isla always seemed

impatient.

to wish for nothing more than

ties with him.

the more he understood the truth,

to use that secret as a threat, forcing

revealing that secret, she would be threatened

knew him too well. She was aware of his indecisiveness, and knowing he wouldn’t want both to

threatened him

seemed to be in

understood that he was ultimately at a

he realized that he had been

start.

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through his facade

of the murder was already known,

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

outside?

went mad at that moment.

wanted to expose Isla’s secret!!

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

she was pregnant.

for five weeks.

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