Chapter 499

Gordon turned his head to look at Sophie. Sophie noticed his gaze and asked with curiosity, “is something wrong?”

Gordon pursed his lips, buttoned up Sophie’s coat, and said softly, “it’s cold. Let’s go back.”

Okay,”

Even though Gordon was wearing a woolen sweater, his face was still pale.

Sophie said in a low voice, “Sorry for dragging this out so late today.”

She should have considered Gordon’s frail health. The weather was getting colder, and the late–night chill was likely to make them sick. She really shouldn’t have asked Gordon to accompany her here late at night on a whim.

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“Curiosity is natural to everyone. If I hadn’t brought you here tonight, you probably wouldn’t have been able to sleep.”

Sophie pushed Gordon’s wheelchair forward and fell silent for a moment before asking. “Mr. Gordon, is the Aldridge family’s ancestral hall similar to ours?”

the Russell family are both locals from Devonport,

there be secrets hidden inside the

tone was flat.

had been in charge of the Aldridge family for so long. If there was anything to be uncovered, it would have been discovered

Gordon knew the truth but chose not to tell her. After all, Ricardo and the White family were both

some of

wouldn’t come to Devonport without solid evidence. Mere rumors wouldn’t be enough to entice him. With these thoughts, Sophie suddenly heard Gordon ask, “Where are you pushing

reality, realizing she had inadvertently pushed Gordon to the other side

so sorry I got

the wheelchair hit a stone on the ground, nearly causing Gordon to lose his balance. Sophie silently knelt down, removed the stone, and continued pushing the

no one has ever seen the treasure of Devonport. It

did Colby’s mother die?”

was always sickly. She died accidentally a few

you mean by accidentally?”

fell from a building”

said those words, Sophie couldn’t help but recall the rumors Colby had mentioned before alcoholism, smoking, and eventually drug use, culminating in a frenzied suicide leap from a

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