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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 the steel

him!

through Finley’s chest, he was in disbelief and stuttered, asking, “Why, why?”

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

love

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

one who’s been kind to

Mustering the

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sentence of his life, “But she’s your aunt’s

personally switched her at

aunt!”

words left after that shout.

dumbfounded at

time to savor the meaning of these words, because outside Keira had

and then, following the original plan, re-entered the room. His mind buzzing, he cooperatively acted out

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

shocked emotions fit

the time.

his dorm room, and lying on his bed staring

things he dared not think

why when

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had no means of taking a bath at

clean and pure, and her smiling face was beautiful

turned out, was due to Finley’s threats…

she just feared that angering him might displease Finley, and thus she

wasn’t

rolling down from

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

on, Keira began waging a war of public opinion against him.

slurs at school, that his mindset had become

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sought her out, Isla

impatient.

nothing more

ties with him.

this, the more he understood the truth,

to use that secret as a

that just by revealing that secret, she would be threatened by him, but in the end,

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

she threatened

to be in some strange balance.

he understood that he was ultimately at

he had been losing from

start.

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and

seen through his facade and

truth of the murder was already known,

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

outside?

mad at that

to expose

what he never expected was that at the moment he was apprehended, when his phone was examined and turned over to the police, he saw a message

that she

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