Chapter 483

Tonight, Silverlake Harbor was ablaze with lights, and the town was destined for a sleepless night.

Emeric, a passionate collector, was in a towering rage this evening, smashing a few antique vases worth millions to pieces. In an instant, priceless porcelain lay in ruins on the floor!

Three ladies stood rigidly before Emeric. Myra clung to Suri’s hand in panic, while Aviana’s heart was in turmoil.

“So you all knew.”

Emeric trembled all over, rage boiling in his veins, “You all knew and kept it from me for three years, a whole three years?!”

“Emeric, we kept it from you because we didn’t want to see you suffer, to be heartbroken.”

Suri tried to speak calmly, her voice low, “Your health hasn’t been good these past few years, Such news would have been too much for you to bear.” Emeric, towering and imposing, swayed and then bitterly laughed, pointing at them with eyes full of fury, “You, what a way to please me, keeping Evadne and Thaddeus’s marriage from me? Her honor ruined, and you kept it from me? This is what you call for my own good?!”

“Emeric! Don’t take it wrong; that’s not what Suri meant!”

Myra tried to hold back tears and explain for Suri, but Emeric interrupted her with a harsh tone, “Ha, of course, after all, you’re not her birth mother; how could you truly care for Evadne? All those times you played the happy family in front of me, was it all just an act? If she’s not born of you, how could you possibly cherish her!”

“Emeric! How can you say that?!”

Aviana, with a fierce glare and narrow eyes, stepped in front of them, and was promptly held back by Suri, “I’ve been with you for nearly twenty years, and Suri and Myra have been with the Ashbourne family even longer! Pretending for a year or two is one thing, but who could keep up such a facade for twenty years? Evadne can no longer bear children; do you think we don’t feel that pain?! We were more heartbroken than you when we found out.” As she spoke, Aviana, a woman who hardly ever shed tears, even when she took two bullets to save Emeric and almost lost her life, only bled and never wept, was now overcome with grief, crying a river.

“When Evadne had that accident, fearing that you, that the Abernathy family would find out, she hid in a small clinic in Elmsworth for a whole month. During that month, it was the three of us who took turns caring for her. To cure her, Suri even went back to the Bright family, kneeling at the doorstep begging Mr. Bright to treat Evadne.”

Emeric’s pupils contracted sharply, his heart clenched tight.

He knew Suri, knew she had severed ties with the Bright Group, always prideful and untainted by the world. Yet for Evadne, she had knelt before them – what strength of spirit it must have taken, a pain more unbearable than death itself.

“We know it’s wrong to keep this from you. But back then, besides hiding it for Evadne, we had no better solution.”

Myra couldn’t help but cry as well, “Emeric, what’s the use of being angry now? Even if you drive us all away, what Evadne has lost can’t be restored.”

it not be restored?! I don’t believe it!”

shattered the

right behind him, fearing his

the world to seek treatment. I’ll

refuse to believe. with such advanced médical science, that Evadne can’t be healed!”

don’t be

held his shaking shoulders firmly, “The district attorney’s office is the dream you’ve worked for all your life;

“But Evadne.”

husband, they hold high positions and have their own connections

to hold back his tears, but by the last few

I

the thirty years, he got so panicked. He paced back

then I’ll go and

out but was fiercely held back by

“Enough! That’s enough!”

the spiral staircase, her usually radiant face now pale and lifeless,

been three years; the past is nearly three years gone! I’ve long stopped caring! Why do you keep

woman have to have children? Can’t I live without them?! I don’t like children. I hate children!! never wanted them, never! I forbid you from

Mr. Lyle?! Didn’t I tell you to keep her

“Take her back

go back to Elmsworth! I want to see

can dream on! Over my dead body will you see

for the better part of a lifetime, were

as she stared blankly for a moment before bursting into a hollow laugh, “Emeric, are you truly so heartless? You’ve had your string of flings, and all I’ve ever wanted

Cassius felt a pang in his chest, seeing

not afraid of the day when a father buries his child?”

shock, the ladies clapping hands

Arnold blurted out, his words tumbling

so fiercely it made it hard to breathe, “I know my child better than anyone. You wouldn’t dare end it all. If you really wanted to die, you had plenty of chances

her teeth

her life, she was just trying to scare him. And the old

enough as it is. I might not be able to even wear shoes by myself again after today. And you, you want to go before me?

know Evadne doesn’t mean it. Why say such hurtful things?” Cassius’s eyes dripped with disquietude; he was unable to

man, she’s willing to turn her

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