My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0615

Magnus returned to the living room, finding Maximus still seated, his face buried in his hands. His fingers massaged his scalp as if trying to stave off the onslaught of emotions and thoughts swirling in his head. Coming to the house of the man who claimed to be his father had only left him more frustrated, saddened, and in pain. He couldn’t stop imagining the unimaginable suffering his mother had endured–or perhaps he could, and that was what tormented him most. The memory of his actions with Mary surfaced, filling him with guilt and a sense of suffocation.

“Maximus… Here’s what your brother left for you,” Magnus said, holding out a thick envelope stuffed with papers and a USB drive. “If you want, you can open the files in my study. I have a laptop there.”

“What’s this?” Maximus asked, rubbing his temples, his brow furrowed in frustration.

“As I said… it’s the life’s work and legacy of Leonardo Palmer and Frank Levett.”

“Do you have any whisky? I need something stronger than coffee.”

“Yes… Let’s head to the study. I keep some there.”

The two men walked through the elegant halls of Magnus’s home.

“There’s the computer,” Magnus said, gesturing toward a sleek laptop on a desk. “I’ll pour you a whisky now. On

a desk. “I’ll the rocks or neat?”

“Neat,” Maximus replied, already opening the folder and spreading its contents across the desk.

were a mix of receipts, notes, and contracts–all bearing Leonardo Palmer’s signature. Maximus’s eyes widened as he realized many of the documents were from recent years. It was clear evidence of massive embezzlement from Palmer Group, all while he had been its CEO.

looting the company again” Maximus muttered through

every document carefully. There’s more here than you might

the USB?”

“See for yourself.”

data was damning–solid proof that Peter had meticulously compiled to drag their father

return the shares to Marcus

Albert Preston. That softened her heart. That’s why your father orchestrated her death. Leonardo never forgave

I could put

is 75 years old. Do you think prison is punishment

that exposing the Palmer name would hurt more than any death.

trafficking, arms dealing… every filthy crime you can imagine. What the hell was my

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criminals everyone believed.

leaving everything in Frank Bartz’s hands. If Peter Bartz had passed his legacy to Lawrence Bartz–Marcus’s father–the family wouldn’t have suffered or ended the

just a scapegoat. She deeply regretted her family ties. That’s why, when she discovered her family’s role in what happened to the Bartzs, she protected the last survivor–Marcus. She thought she’d destroyed all evidence of her guilt, but your brother found it easily. Catherine felt responsible for what her father had done but couldn’t act against it,

Levett would hunt them down,

“Why not?”