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

Such a revelation!

grandson

was replaced with

"Gilbert, Gilbert... my boy!"

clutched Francis's shirt, demanding, "Where did you take my grandson? Answer me! Give my Gilbert back

brother not been lost, would

bear the thought of their grandmother losing

he brought back the person standing

froze, her

My Gilbert is

erupted into a cry, "My Gilbert was gone

she couldn't

back as she collapsed into

"Grandma!"

"Grandma!"

the elderly

ét

her into his

moved

to his

brother's lingering injury.

"I'll call for help!"

"Right!"

Sylvia

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