Chapter 740

"Grandma..." Gilbert mumbled, his head hung low, drowning in a sea of shame.

"You won't talk, huh?"

Sylvia turned to grab Francis. "What about you? Where's your brother? What did you do with him?"

"Grandma..." Francis, too, found himself lost for words.

"You knew all along he was an impostor..."

Sylvia's eyes were clouded with confusion and age.

Then, it struck her like a cold breeze, "I understand now. The boy who came back with you that year... wasn't Gilbert, was he?" Francis remained silent, his silence a loud admission.

"Oh..."

Sylvia closed her eyes, tears streaming down her cheeks as the realization hit her hard.

She remembered!

The Gilbert who had returned was different; the once gentle and quiet grandson had become defiant and reckless...

"I thought, I really thought..."

Her words trailed off into a whisper.

his drastic change was due to surviving a kidnapping, not that he

Such a revelation!

having her grandson back had blinded

the joy was replaced with

"Gilbert, Gilbert... my boy!"

"Where did you take my grandson? Answer me! Give my Gilbert back to me!" "Grandma..." Francis's

brother not been lost, would

bear the thought of their grandmother losing yet another family

brought back the person standing

her breathing becoming

My Gilbert is

cry, "My Gilbert was gone all along,

couldn't catch

as she collapsed into Francis's

"Grandma!"

"Grandma!"

the elderly woman,

ét

into his

moved to

to his

brother's lingering injury.

"I'll call for help!"

"Right!"

rushed Sylvia to the

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