Chapter 662 A Mysterious Apology

Right now, Toby was dreaming of his past.

He was going upstairs like he usually would in the mornings so that he could call his mother for breakfast. Normally, all he would have to do was knock on her bedroom door, and she would open it with a gentle smile on her face, one that was reserved for him.

This time, however, the door remained shut no matter how incessantly he was knocking on it. When the door didn’t seem like it would open any time soon, he started to sense something wrong.

Without wasting another moment, he called for one of the household staff to unlock his mother’s bedroom door with a spare key. But instead of a warm smile, what greeted him as soon as the door swung open was the strong scent of blood. As he walked in, he realized that the coppery smell was coming from the adjoining bathroom.

The color drained from his face as he slowed in his tracks, but when fear seized him, he barreled toward the bathroom like a madman.

The bathroom door had been left ajar, and when he skidded to a stop at the doorway, the horrific sight within instantly came into view.

His mother hung by the side of the bathtub, her face and body splattered with blood. Slumped on the ground, she was holding a razor in one hand while the other was submerged in the water-filled tub.

The water in the bathtub had been colored red by her blood, while she had already gone cold and lifeless.

The bloody scene was burned into the back of Toby’s mind ever since, only to resurface every year on his mother’s death anniversary so that it could torture his soul and remind him of his devastating loss.

There were even times when the scene would evolve into an entirely non-existent one, like right now, where he dreamed of his dead mother suddenly rising to her feet and slowly walking over to him. She was covered in her own blood as she questioned him hauntingly, “Why was I made to carry you in the first place?”

trapped within the Fuller Family, kept from

up in shock, his bloodshot eyes snapping wide open, and his breathing came

didn’t recover from the shock for a while, and when she

at all. His pupils were dilated as he stared up at the ceiling in terror, and his

down, Sonia put her ear close to his lips

her eyes. Why is he apologizing? And

him worriedly and realized that he was having something like night terrors, and his thoughts were not of his own conscious mind. She quickly reached for his shoulders and shook him, yelling, “Toby,

taking a toll on his mind. He has to snap out of it

was slowly focusing on Sonia instead of the ceiling. He stared at her in a daze,

of the quack of an old duck. All the alcohol he had taken had obviously fried his vocal cords, and

here?” he asked groggily, pressing his hand to his forehead as he made to sit up on the couch. But weakness overcame him, and he couldn’t even lift his

that I’d come, and didn’t I also tell you not to turn your phone off two days ago? You promised me, but you went ahead and turned it off anyway! If it weren’t for the reason that you were knocked out today, I would have broken up with

have leaped to admit his fault and tried to cheer her up as soon as he heard any mention of a break-up, but as things were, he simply wasn’t

let it

she saw him looking so forlorn, and she couldn’t help empathizing with him. After all, she had lost her parents as well, but his loss was a

been murdered at a hotel, while his mother took her own life. However, Toby had been the one to discover the

away from illness. While the death upset her, she didn’t feel devastated. Her father’s death had come about during her adult years, and she had mourned

no one could have possibly seen it coming; more importantly, he was the first to discover her body, and that would have scarred any

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