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?”

are both locals from Devonport, whereas the Costello family and the Tredgold family came later.”

secrets hidden inside the ancestral hall that we don’t know about?”

Gordon’s tone

Gordon had been in charge of the Aldridge family for so long. If there was anything to

After

Those outsiders must’ve known some of Devonpon to be so

as calculative as Ricardo wouldn’t come to Devonport without solid evidence. Mere rumors wouldn’t be enough to entice him. With these thoughts, Sophie suddenly heard Gordon

realizing she had inadvertently pushed Gordon to the other side of the yard.

so sorry I got

direction, but this time, the wheelchair hit a stone on the ground, nearly causing Gordon to lose his balance. Sophie silently knelt down, removed the stone,

many years, no one has ever seen the treasure of Devonport. It might just be a myth. Colby might have kept some things from you only because he’s

Colby’s mother die?”

was always sickly. She died accidentally a few years after giving birth to Colby.”

you mean by accidentally?”

from a building”

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

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