Chapter 296 The Past Events

Chapter 296 The Past Events

After ending the call, Susanna dialed another number.

"How is it going? Have your people made it to the border yet? If Gaston falls into Lenora's hands, then we..."

The man on the other end of the phone said, "He's gone, currently, Gaston's whereabouts are unkno

Susanna let out a sigh of relief, a glint of ruthlessness flashed in her eyes. "If I had known that Lenora could dig up the case from ten years ago, I should have..

Get rid of her as well.

The man on the other end of the line fell silent.

Susanna laughed mockingly. "When your Fuller family adopted her back then, you certainly didn't anticipate today, did you?"

Johanne said. "It was me who suggested to Grandpa that we adopt her."

At first, Gerald simply wanted to financially support Lenora to continue her studies.

It was his suggestion to bring Lenora to the Fuller family, to be raised as their adopted daughter.

Gerald held a great admiration for Fernando. Upon hearing the news of his death, he was filled with sorrow. Back then, he had made a point to bring along his eldest grandson, who was already working, to attend Fernando's funeral. Back then, Johanne only knew that a friend of Gerald had passed away, so he accompanied him to the funeral.

When he arrived at the funeral, the sight of the large black and white photograph left him frozen on the SPOL

The memorial photo was unremarkable, yet he felt as if the man in the picture was eerily staring straight at him. Watching the sorrow etched on the Gerald's face and the other mourners, Johanne was in utter agony

He saw Lenora. Back then, she was only about sixteen or,seventeen, young and naive, her innocence still intact.

Upon learning that Fernando was the last living relative of Lenora, a sense of compassion rose within him. He then suggested the idea of adoption to the old man

Gerald had accepted this suggestion.

After Lenora arrived at the Fuller family home, she found Johanne to be warm and friendly, in stark contrast to Tamara's indifference. Gerald was extremely pleased with Johanne's attitude-

As for Zachary, at that time, his girlfriend had just experienced a crisis and he was also trying to compensate for the losses caused by the leak of his company's research and development project. He only

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296 The Past

on the night Lenora arrived, visibly distracted, and didn't return to the residence for a long time

grin faltered, her expression turning to one disbelief. "Y-You don't actually

to get rid of her when she first started investigating, but didn't dare lift

What a busybody!

If

ordinary person, where would she have found all the resources and manpower to investigate

I'm not as ruthless as you. You fear exposure, so you'd readily kill someone, talking about it as if it's the easiest thing in the

"Scared that your younger brother will threaten you, you sent a woman to spy on him! How noble are you really? You know exactly how your grandfather died, but you pretend to be clueless. Isn't it just What truly

the blame for her

Johanne immediately hung up the

the other end of

for not recognizing Johanne's

same situation, except,

home, Lenora found that Sophia

on the sofa, raising an eyebrow. "Finished work so early

party." Sophia rolled her eyes. "Nora, you're free tonight, right? How

Lenora asked,

should go have a chat. I had no interest in blind dates! I planned to

the evening, Lenora and Sophia

gathering. Numerous successful individuals, resplendent in their suits and polished shoes, huddled in small groups, engaged

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The

desserts and headed straight to sit

"Has your

phone, took a bite of her cake, and said,

to strike

messages and saying. "He's here,

had left, heading toward the balcony, while Lenora remained seated

a call from the

for many years, and it was intricately linked to the case involving Lenora's

connecting the dots between the kidnapping case and Fernando's car accident. The person Lenora

To avoid inadvertently alerting

around his readence, which also belonged to Dard. Meanwhile, another team was dispatched to investigate at Richie's biological father's home, simultaneously examining t They were simply waiting for Susanna to step forward and confirm Richie's guilt. Only then would they

the phone that Richie had run

it accurately,

Richie had shown himself in the morning, but was nowhere to be seen in the afternoon. Feeling something was off, the officer, under the guise of a

Richie's wife, was taken to the police station for questioning, she discovered for the first time that her husband was a kidnapper. His supposed work abroad was actually a ruse to evade investigation. The revelation left her trembling and breaking out in a cold sweat, she

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