Winning Her Heart back (Emelie and William)

Chapter 858 Humiliation of a Ten-Year Bond

"I started by looking for photos of the Pierce family and the Graham family, which are pictures of two families of four, but I couldn't find a single photo. That was fine, as it could be chalked up to them being lost over time.

"Then, I tried to track down the former household staff of the Pierce family and the Graham family, hoping that they could identify Mrs. Filo from a photo. But I couldn't find a single one of them either.

"That's where things got really strange. There were at least 20 household staff between the two families. How could they all disappear like that?"

Emelie hummed in acknowledgment, switching to a new plate as she mechanically resumed peeling the sweet potatoes.

"So, I dug deeper. Some of those household staff had passed away naturally, and some had left the family homes to follow their children elsewhere. As for the rest... someone had bought them houses, found them jobs, and given them money to leave their original residences."

Lyle's voice grew serious. "They were forced to leave their homes so that no one could find them."

It was a sound of agreement and acknowledgment

looked just like Mrs. Pierce, while the other said

have jumped into a river in despair after her husband was sentenced

other words, she was Emelie's biological

her head,

a DNA test with Wesley because that would have been too offensive and would have humiliated the bond they had built over the past ten years. Besides, she couldn't bear the cold, hard facts laid out in

could turn a blind eye and pretend not to notice. She wanted to know the

was why she asked Lyle to investigate this matter

Lyle had conducted an extremely thorough

a gemstone worth millions of dollars. He believed

the Graham family looked at Mrs. Filo's photo, they

hummed for a third time, and the pile of sweet