If it wasn\u2019t for Larissa, she would already have the world at her feet. As long as she was still breathing, she would find a way to make Larissa pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Honora was led away, Trudy dialed Lucius\u2019s number. She needed to know if he had found the little bastard who had caused her mother\u2019s death all those years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Twenty\u2013two years ago, her mother had taken on a special case. A mysterious man, his identity hidden, had sold his own son to her. He didn\u2019t want any money; his only condition was that the boy be sold as far away from Regal City as possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So her mother had taken the boy south. But by a cruel twist of fate, she ran into the boy\u2019s birth mother, who had been searching for him. Her mother had managed to escape when the woman chasing her got into a car accident. She thought she was in the clear, but the boy\u2019s mother had made one last call for help before she died.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trudy remembered the phone call from her own mother that day. Her voice was trembling. \u201cMy dear daughter, I think I\u2019m going to pay for my sins. I think I\u2019m going to hell. If I die, don\u2019t try to avenge me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next day, she learned that her mother had been found dead on the side of the road, her body mangled beyond recognition by a vehicle, her head severed from her torso.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her mother had died such a horrific death. How could she not seek revenge?\u00a0<\/p>\n
For nearly twenty years, she had searched for the person who had killed her mother and taken the boy, but she had found nothing. Then, two years ago, she stumbled upon some of the Lincoln family\u2019s secrets. She had agreed to work for Lucius on one condition: that he find her mother\u2019s killer and the boy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his office at Neverending Night, Lucius stared at the file in his hands, his excitement growing by the\u00a0<\/p>\n
second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He couldn\u2019t believe it. The infant boy that Trudy\u2019s mother was supposed to sell all those years ago was Haskell\u2019s younger brother. That meant Draven, the one Haskell had personally sent to prison, was an imposter.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This was fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No wonder Haskell had been so ruthless, sending Draven and Valeria to prison together. No wonder he had locked his own father away in an asylum. Haskell must have discovered that Draven wasn\u2019t his real brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If only he had put his people on this investigation for Trudy sooner, he might have found Haskell\u2019s real brother long ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What a shame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t too late. He still had a chance. If he could find Haskell\u2019s brother first\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
10:34\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 560\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucius could only imagine Haskell\u2019s reaction. How far would he go to save him? The possibilities made him giddy with anticipation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKnock, knock, knock.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The door opened, and Livia walked in, holding a lunchbox.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLucius,\u201d she said with a bright smile, \u201cI made you lunch again today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She noticed the unrestrained excitement on his face and paused.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What could possibly make Lucius look so thrilled? In all the time she had known him, she had never seen him like this. She knew the one thing that bothered him most was being secretly referred to as the \u201ceternal second\u2013best\u201d among the city\u2019s elite. The only thing that could bring him this much joy was the prospect of finally crushing Haskell.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just then, Lucius\u2019s phone rang.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He answered it, and a voice came through the line. \u201cMr. Lincoln, I\u2019ve been working for you for two years now. Have you found any leads on my mother\u2019s killer, or on the whereabouts of the little bastard who was taken?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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