No Remarriage for us Stay Away by Livia Storm

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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the night Lenora arrived, visibly distracted, and didn't

her expression turning to one disbelief. "Y-You don't actually have a soft

do you? No wonder I told you to get rid of her when she first

What a busybody!

If

have found all the resources and manpower

You fear exposure, so you'd readily kill someone, talking about it as if it's the

the mockery in Johanne's words and she scoffed, "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 infuriated Gerald was not the minor issues concerning Zachary, but

she conveniently shifted all the blame for

hearing her words, Johanne immediately

on the other end of

not recognizing Johanne's true colors

the same situation, except,

home, Lenora found that

raising an eyebrow.

party." Sophia rolled her eyes. "Nora, you're free

just not go?" Lenora asked, seeing her displeasure

that the guy would be there as well and that I should go have a chat. I had no interest

in the evening, Lenora and Sophia arrived at the

more like a cocktail gathering. Numerous successful individuals, resplendent in their suits and polished shoes, huddled in small

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two of them grabbed some desserts and headed straight to

"Has your

phone, took a bite of

a young gentleman did approach the two attempting to

replying to messages and saying. "He's here,

toward the balcony, while Lenora remained

received a call

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

was merely a middleman, connecting the dots between the kidnapping case and Fernando's car

To avoid inadvertently alerting

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

her oyer the phone that Richie had

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 home improvement supplier, decided to knock on Richie's door, only to Connor had gone to work,

abroad was actually a ruse to evade investigation. The revelation left her