Chapter 236: Chapter 236



It was really cruel to be imprisoned for six years.

Why was she talking to him?

It was as if in an instant he realized Charles’ purpose for luring him here. So it had something to do with Nathan.

Matthew turned his head and his eyes narrowed slightly, “Mr. White, is this what you lured me here for?”

At Matthew’s surprise, Charles was not embarrassed, but burst out laughing, “I really can’t hide it from you. However, I think as long as you’re willing to investigate, you’re sure to find out a lot.”

“What good will it do with me?” It was obvious that Matthew didn’t want to get involved in this mess. If it weren’t for Dolores, he wouldn’t even be in a place like this.

Did she want to use him?

That was ridiculous.

Charles grew serious. It was definitely impossible for him to use Matthew to investigate this matter without telling him something beforehand. With Matthew’s intelligence, he would soon be able to find out.

Now, if he wanted to get him interested in the matter, he would have to throw out the bait that would interest him.

“My adoptive father, Nathan, never married in his life, only because he lost his first love. He and his first love were engaged to be married, but then, the two of them split up. I don’t know exactly why. I just know that his first love married your father, Jayden.”

“My adoptive father was incarcerated for six years, don’t you think…”

“What are you trying to say, my father stole your foster father’s wife?”

Matthew’s face grew uglier and uglier. He didn’t have a good impression of Victoria in the first place, and, besides, everything that was happening now had to do with her.

This made him very unhappy.

Charles had also suspected that his foster father had been imprisoned by Jayden back then. He had imprisoned him to get Victoria.

He threatened Victoria by cutting off Nathan’s fingers, and if she did not stay with him, he would continue to hurt Nathan, which forced Victoria to stay with him.

For this, Nathan was imprisoned and his fingers were cut off.

However, there was something else she couldn’t understand. If Jayden did it, how did he get the Harris Family to forgive him?

At the time, Jayden and Jolene were a couple. He did a big deal – would the Harris Family turn a blind eye?

So, there was a lot more to this suspicion that didn’t make sense.

“You never wondered if it was normal for your father to marry Victoria Forbis shortly after your mother’s death and your grandfather didn’t even interfere.”

Whether it was a respectable family or a commoner, who could tolerate his son-in-law marrying another woman shortly after his daughter’s death and not saying a word?

At any rate, all this was strange.

“What did you say, Victoria Forbis?” A bolt of lightning crossed Matthew’s mind.

He had always been distant and cold to Victoria,had never bothered to deliberately get to know her.

But he still knew her name. His father had also introduced her to the public as Victoria.

And now Charles was saying her last name was Forbis?

So why did her father hide her last name?

What was the secret to this?

She knew Charles was deliberately letting her know, and she wanted to use her hand to investigate the matter. However, at this moment, even knowing he was being used, he was willing to do it.

He would always feel that he was living in a grand conspiracy until this matter was cleared up.

“Mr. Nelson, are you interested in working with me?” Charles held out an olive branch to him again.

He sensed Matthew’s hesitation.

“I’m not going to lie. I’m able to be where I am today because of my foster father. I have to repay him for the favor. He has passed away. All I can do is make sure the people who ever hurt him are punished. Mr. Nelson, you also want to find out what happened between Victoria and her father, don’t you? If we join forces, it won’t be hard to find out, what do you think?”

Matthew laughed, “If I want to know, I can find out for myself-why would I want to work with you?”

His subtext was that Charles didn’t have enough clout to join forces with him.

Charles bowed his head and smiled bitterly, “Mr. Nelson, you’re not willing to take any losses.”

“I have one more lead in my hand.” Originally, Charles wasn’t going to say it, but now, if he didn’t say it, he feared Matthew wouldn’t join forces with him.

“The master who can make watered gauze is named Kevin,” it took him a lot of effort to find out.

The Forbis Family used to be brilliant, then it died out. Even the Forbis Family people lived in seclusion in this camp.

Kevin, Victoria?

“If I’m right, Miss Flores may already know the story.” In fact, under the pretext of going to work, she was investigating the car that suddenly parked in the backyard that day.

She learned about it that day when Kevin took Dolores to see Victoria.

He knew Kevin was coming before Matthew.

“He had spent a day and a night at the Forbis mansion before Miss Flores came back to pick up her two children. And, Victoria was there too,” Charles said, telling the whole story of what he knew.

Matthew’s hands tightened in his pockets. Was this why Dolores’ attitude had changed?

She had been with the Forbis Family for a day and a night. What had Victoria told her during that time?

“Mr. White, is that all you know?” Matthew remained calm. He had decided in his heart to cooperate with him, but he still remained aloof on the surface.

In any case, he would not let Charles have the upper hand.

Charles spread his hands, “That’s all I know. If I knew more, I wouldn’t have come to you to work together.”

Matthew pondered for a while. This matter seemed to be very complicated, and here was Charles’ territory. If Charles investigated what happened here, while he handled the investigation in B-Town, and as long as the two of them worked together, it wouldn’t be difficult to find out the truth.

“Dad…”

Simona ran off to find Matthew. While Dolores was out, she got used to sleeping in her father’s arms. When Theresa washed her face and brushed her teeth to dress her for bed, she insisted on coming with Matthew, and Theresa had no choice but to bring her in.

“She didn’t want to get dressed,” Theresa said helplessly.

Matthew came over and picked up his daughter. As he walked out into the yard, he turned his back to Charles and said, “I’ll leave her here for you.”

Charles smiled, “Okay. Please don’t worry, I’ll find out as soon as possible.” He knew Matthew was agreeing to cooperate with him.

This was his territory, and it would not be difficult for him to find out what had happened to the Forbis Family back then.

It was only a matter of time.

If something had happened, even if a long time had passed, there would still be traces of it to find.

“Dad, when is Mom coming back?” Simona wrapped her arms around his neck.

She missed her grandmother and was looking forward to going back.

“Soon.” Matthew patted her head, “I’ll put you to bed.”

“Mr. Nelson,” Charles rolled his wheelchair over and followed, “You are the most generous man I have ever known. Since ancient times, sons always follow their father’s surname. But you have had your sons take your wife’s last name. That’s very generous of you.”

After saying that, Charles laughed out loud and turned his wheelchair toward his room.

Obviously, he was teasing her.

He knew very well that when Dolores had those two children, Matthew didn’t know it, and that’s why they took Dolores’ last name.

He said it deliberately to tease him.

“Mr. White, you’re worrying too much.” Matthew paused and lifted his leg again. He really didn’t care if the children took Dolores’ last name. The children were his bloodline anyway, and that couldn’t be changed.

What’s more, if he wanted a child with her last name, he would have had another with her.

Charles heard the subtext in Matthew’s words and his smiling face slowly turned cold.

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