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Chapter 338 The Truth Will Come Out One Day\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mean\u2026\u201d Curtis looked at Adriana, his gaze suddenly burning hot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Those violent outbursts from his childhood were the one thing he could never forgive himself for. They were a lifetime sentence, a memory that gnawed at him in the dark.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If it really was like Adriana said\u2014if he\u2019d been set up, drugged\u2014then maybe, just maybe, he could finally 1 himself breathe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCurtis, there\u2019s no history of mental illness in your family. Your grandpa, Gary, Mr. Harold, even your dac -none of them have anything like that. And your mom only broke down after you were born, after years of being pushed and tormented. There\u2019s a real chance she was driven insane by someone on purpose. So you? You\u2019re not some \u2018inherently unstable\u2018 case. The only reason everyone just defaulted to \u2018Curtis is craz is because your mom broke first. So people decided, \u2018If the mother\u2019s a lunatic, the son must be one too.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
And with that, the label stuck. Curtis: the madman.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what if all of it was man\u2013made? What if it started with your mother\u2013that everything was part of a long game? The goal is to destroy your family piece by piece, trash your name, ruin your reputation, and strip you of any right to inherit Lincoln Group?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana tightened her grip on his hand, heart aching.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She suddenly felt deeply grateful to Harold. Back then, he\u2019d gone against the entire world to shut down th \u2018crazy heir\u2018 narrative, sealed all rumors about Curtis\u2019s \u201cmental illness,\u201d and devoted himself to grooming his grandson as successor\u2013pushing him into Lincoln Group and helping him climb to the top.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Curtis stared at her, stunned, before finally giving a small nod.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019d never really questioned whether his own loss of control was orchestrated. But he had dug into his mother\u2019s breakdown\u2013and there were a lot of signs that pointed to foul play, to someone slowly poisoning her mind over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cCurtis, whether it\u2019s the Bartons or the Lincolns, your families have been under somebody\u2019s crosshairs for a long time. Someone has been playing you all like chess pieces, carefully, patiently. Their goal is simple: destroy the Bartons and the Lincolns. Wipe you out.\u201d Adriana\u2019s voice shook.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the Bartons, Jeremy\u2019s only legitimate son and daughter\u2013in\u2013law both died under suspicious circumstances. His only grandchild vanished, lost somewhere in the world, her life or death unknown. Jeremy himself was nearly killed by his illegitimate son, and the family fortune was almost stolen by that son and a fake \u201cgranddaughter\u201d working together.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the Lincolns, Michael had been useless and easily manipulated\u2013dragged into gambling and high- risk deals, pushed into losing nearly everything, and taking Lincoln Group right to the edge of collapse. Then, he drove his wife insane, and after she died, terrified that the Lincolns\u2018 downfall would drag him down with them, he signed away all rights to the family\u2019s assets and disappeared, playing dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Harold hadn\u2019t been as decisive and ruthless as he was in his youth\u2013and if Curtis hadn\u2019t been strong enough and smart enough later on\u2013the Lincolns would probably have vanished from Harborton\u2019s elite circle years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Whoever was behind all this knew both families inside and out. They knew every weakness, every habit, every movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They knew the Bartons and the Lincolns the way only an insider could.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Which meant this person wasn\u2019t some faceless stranger. They had to be someone familiar\u2013someone close.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But who?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth will come out one day,\u201d Adriana said, fingers lacing through his, her grip firm and warm. \u201cWher it does, you\u2019re not going to carry this blame anymore. Anything you did while you were being pushed or drugged or manipulated\u2014that\u2019s not on you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She knew the real knot in his chest wasn\u2019t Gary or even his mother. It was himself. Curtis couldn\u2019t forgive himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That night, for the first time in a long time, Curtis actually slept well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With Adriana tucked in his arms, his whole body finally relaxed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The steel\u2013tight wire that had been wrapped around his nerves for years loosened at last.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He\u2019d always been torn. He loved Adriana so much he wanted to chain her to his side, but at the same time, he was terrified she\u2019d get hurt because of him\u2013because of the people hiding in the dark who wanted him destroyed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Luckily, she\u2019d proven, over and over, that she was never some delicate little rabbit waiting to be slaughtered.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was his comrade\u2013in\u2013arms\u2013his shield and his salve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next morning, when Gary pulled up to take Adriana to the hospital, Curtis walked her out himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He still didn\u2019t say a word to Gary\u2013but hey, it was progress.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGary, are you still mad at Curtis for stabbing you when he lost control as a kid? I\u2019m really sorry. I know that probably forced you to give up the dream you wanted most\u2026\u201d On the way to Haldoria Hospital, Adriana wanted to apologize to Gary for Curtis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the more she thought about it, the more she realized how deep and tangled that rift between them really was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Neither of them seemed willing to take the first step back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never blamed him,\u201d Gary said at last, after a long silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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He said he\u2019d never blamed Curtis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana blinked, stunned, turning to look at him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cThings were complicated back then. Too complicated to explain in one sitting. When I tried to have him committed, it wasn\u2019t because I wanted to punish him. I wanted to protect him. Because my sister\u2019s death\u2026 wasn\u2019t as simple as everyone thinks. There was more going on. The Lincolns weren\u2019t safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adriana sat there in stunned silence for a long time, unable to say a word.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The grudge between Curtis and Gary, it seemed, was nothing like she\u2019d imagined.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If a man loved his sister that much, how could he possibly pour all his hatred and resentment onto her child?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gary knew, of course he knew, that Curtis had reasons\u2013dark, buried reasons\u2013for killing his sister and stabbing him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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