Under the heiress facade

Chapter 718

"Why?" Hera was perplexed. She didn't believe Bernard when he told her that.

To Hera, Lucius was wrongly accused. Why would he not want his name to be cleared?

If he didn't want to have his name cleared, why was Daphne murdered by Linda for helping him collect evidence? Hera was confused that Lucius was telling her to stop the investigation. She even suspected whether Bernard had threatened him into saying so.

However, she had observed before entering the room earlier. There was no surveillance camera on the wall.

"Is it because of Bernard? Did he tell you not to say anything? Is he the murderer?" Hera couldn't help but inquire. Lucius realized she had misunderstood the situation and began to explain, "No. This has nothing to do with him." Hera was secretly relieved after Lucius personally confirmed that Bernard had nothing to do with what happened that year.

But if this had nothing to do with Bernard, why did he forbid her to continue investigating? She wondered if he was trying to protect the murderer.

"Why?" Hera frowned.

"This matter involves way too many people. If you continue investigating, more Killians will be imprisoned," Lucius explained.

"I'm sure my dad and Greg definitely don't want to see that happen, so let

life here. It's not so bad to use my freedom to exchange for peace

disbelief. Lucius, who once seemed so familiar in her memories, suddenly seemed like a stranger at that

so much just to clear your name, yet she was murdered in the end! Are you going to let her die

this, so I don't want you to find out the truth!" Lucius growled with a scowl. Seeing Hera's reddened

to even lecture her in the past. But their discussion had caused his emotions to get the better of him at that moment, resulting

"It'll only bring more harm to the Killians if

end up being destroyed for good. Is that worth it? Besides, this matter

chuckled. "What family? The Killians are always

inevitable for a family to have conflicts. As long as the Killians remain united,

long since this happened. If we start revisiting the case now, not only will we damage Killian Corporation's reputation, but we won't even be

reputation and superficial harmony are more important than

justice for Lucius. Catherine and Hera had barely scraped by to survive just so they could

to stop her investigation because he was willing to be a scapegoat. She found

Catherine bring her up for

die for