The lost heiress never forgiven

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Chapter 486 A Secret Buried Alive

Chapter 486 A Secret Buried Alive

Johnathan stared at Chase for a long moment before speaking slowly.

“So this is the secret you’ve kept hidden all these years? Because you were afraid of his revenge, you gave me to my mother and let everyone believe she was my birth mother just to confuse people?”

Chase’s eyes were full of sorrow.

“I don’t know how much Sierra’s told you, but we really did intend to take this secret to the grave. Back then, we had no choice. It all started because of one accident that year.”

Chase fell into memories of the past.

Back then, he was still in school. He, Susie, and Wendy were best friends.

Wendy had someone she liked – a special forces officer with a classified identity. Almost no one knew about him.

He and Susie were together, but due to his own background, they kept their relationship quiet. No one really knew they were dating.

At the time, Victor was a foreign exchange student at the school. Handsome and wealthy, he quickly drew attention but he set his sights on Susie.

Susie loved Chase, so naturally, she refused Victor.

Victor wouldn’t back off. Chase had wanted to warn him, but Susie stopped him, saying Victor was obsessive and she was afraid he’d do something crazy.

His hesitation then led to everything that came after.

months of secluded training, learning about clan matters.

time he came back, everything

her, but ended up trapped herself — and became the target of

was pregnant. Victor assumed the child was his and treated her well. Wendy, on the other

fragile, and with her boyfriend having gotten into trouble as well, she ended up delivering a stillborn

knew the child was Chase’s. The three of them

while, which gave Chase a window to act. To deceive Victor, he even found

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all he could find was that both Susie and the baby had died. Meanwhile Chase had married Wendy and had a

who the baby’s real father was, so when Victor heard she’d married

take advantage of the situation–acting as if he was defending Wendy’s honor and beat Victor within an inch of his life. He

none of that could undo the damage to

Especially Wendy.

Victor, her health wouldn’t have declined like that. She wouldn’t have

had carried

neither of them had the heart to tell her otherwise. Eventually, they even began to go along with

that it was

help glancing at

out what

full story, all he felt was how absurd it

guilty when Wendy was mentioned. No wonder

Everything made sense now.

most ridiculous, though, was

that Victor’s family had done to them, this was it? No revenge? Just chasing him away