Chapter 613: Events of the Past
Because it had happened a long time ago, Lance could no longer remember the details clearly.
He only remembered that 29 years ago, a young Moses suddenly returned home with a child in his arms less than two years after graduating from college and said that the child was his son, Marc.
At the time, Lance was naturally shocked, and the Kingstons already owned a business empire. In order to prevent having illegitimate children in the family, he immediately found someone to do a paternity test for Moses and Marc. After determining that Marc was indeed Moses’s biological son, Lance finally accepted him.
But when Lance asked Moses who the child’s mother was, Moses remained silent and didn’t say anything. Only when he was compelled to a corner did he say, “My child’s mother has long died.”
Thus, Moses married another woman, who then became Marc’s stepmother.
This woman was someone whom Lance had long wanted Moses to marry.
But a few years after they got married, the woman died during labor, along with the unborn child.
Moses dropped the idea of getting married again, and he had always only acknowledged Marc as his only son.
But Marc had just jumped to his death two days ago, and Moses had just shot himself dead after a failed attempt to take revenge on Lucas. The corpse had yet to be buried, as it had only been delivered back to the Kingstons yesterday. Later on, someone from the Smiths in DC suddenly arrived and said that she was the ex-wife of his poor son and the mother of his grandson. No matter how he looked at it, it still seemed unbelievable!
Most importantly, as soon as she came, she asked Lance how his son and grandson had died, putting him in a difficult spot.
“I… Could I ask what happened between you and Moses?” Lance asked, full of puzzlement about this matter.
Mrs. Smith’s name was Wendy. She moved her eyes and said indifferently, “There isn’t much. Simply put, we met and fell in love in college, but I didn’t tell him my true ident.i.ty. Later on, I got pregnant, but he said that his family forbade him from getting married, so I handed our son to him after giving birth. I also severed all ties with him and cut off contact with him. Are you pleased with that answer?”
Wendy flew into a sudden rage, making Lance shudder.
Only then did he suddenly remember that there did seem to be such an incident many years ago.
At the time, his son Moses had just graduated from college, and one day, he called home to say that he wanted to marry a college schoolmate who came from a humble family.
Of course, Lance objected to it because he had already picked a suitable marriage partner for Moses—the daughter of a notable family in San Francisco. Her family was very compatible with the Kingstons, so Lance strongly opposed his son’s decision regardless of his insistence. In the end, he even threatened to sever ties with Moses to force him to break up with the woman from a humble family.
But now…
Large drops of sweat immediately emerged on Lance’s forehead. He had never thought that the woman his son loved would be a daughter of the eight major families of DC.
The reason she didn’t reveal her ident.i.ty and family background to his son was probably that she wanted to seek love that wasn’t built on materialistic interests. It was likely because of a childish mindset!
The thought of it made Lance feel agonized.
He regretted his past actions and was afraid that Wendy would cause trouble for him because of them.
Fortunately, Wendy was not the same girl as back then.
After staring at Lance for a while, she moved away and said coldly, “At this point, I’m not here to pursue the matter and hold you responsible for what happened. I just want to know how my ex-husband and my son died. Tell me everything honestly!”
Only then did Lance relax a little, but he didn’t dare to delay at all. He hurriedly said, “Mrs. Smith, Moses and Marc were both killed by a young man named Lucas Gray! If it weren’t for him, my son and grandson would still be alive and well! Maybe you would have been able to reunite with them someday!”
He told her everything that had happened in the Kingston manor a few days ago, including the feud between Marc, Moses, and Lucas.
Of course, he didn’t tell her about how he was compelled into kicking Marc out of the family and then disowning him. He also hid the fact that he had rejected Moses without hesitation when the latter said that he wanted to avenge Marc after Marc committed suicide.
Furthermore, he had even exaggerated Lucas’s might and domineering nature, as well as the grief and misery he felt after finding out about the death of his son and grandson.
But Wendy had come prepared. She sneered. “In that case, do you also feel sad for my son and ex-husband? But I heard that you were the one who kicked my son out of the family and disowned him!
“Moreover, when my ex-husband asked for your help to avenge my son, you also turned him down without hesitation. After his corpse was returned to the Kingstons, you didn’t show any signs of taking revenge for him. Even his funeral was held perfunctorily, huh?”
Lance’s heart dropped.
This was the part that he had hidden from Wendy just now, but she seemed to know everything. As expected of someone from one of the eight major families in DC, she was really terrifyingly capable!
He was now filled with regret. Had he known Wendy’s ident.i.ty long ago, how could he have thrown Marc out of the family? He would have agreed to Moses’s request instead of letting him die out there and be carried back home as a corpse.
But what was done couldn’t be undone. It was too late for regrets!
Moses was anxious and uneasy, but he could only say miserably, “I… I didn’t want that to happen either! Mrs. Smith, I don’t know how much you know about the Kingstons, but I can swear to you that I never treated Moses and Marc badly! I was grooming him to become the next successor of the family even before that incident. He was the grandson I favored the most. If it wasn’t because of the circ.u.mstances, how could I have driven the grandson I had the most hopes for out of the family?”