Aurora thought she had misheard. "Not going to make it? What do you mean?"


    Princess Wright sobbed, "My brother was shot in the heart. He''s in surgery right now, but the doctors say the chances of saving him are slim... My brother... he''s probably going to die..."


    Aurora''s breath caught in her throat. "How could this happen? How did Eason get shot out of nowhere?"


    Princess Wright had called Aurora in a panic. If she hadn''t kidnapped Abby, her brother wouldn''t be dying.


    She incoherently recounted the sequence of events.


    "My brother was shot once by Ste, and then the head of the Gardner family, Joshua, shot him in the heart. My mother fainted from shock, and my father is furious. He says he will never forgive them... or... or the Williams family."


    Aurora''s eyelids twitched as a sense of foreboding washed over her.


    "Is King Wright ming our family because Ste is from the Williams family?" she asked.


    "That''s part of it," Princess Wright said, "but my father thinks... he thinks this whole thing might have been a setup orchestrated by your family and Joshua."


    Even with her intelligence, Aurora couldn''t make sense of it.


    "A setup? What do you mean?"


    Princess Wright cried, "My father thinks you saving me wasn''t a coincidence, but something nned. He thinks Ste showing up in Germany and chatting with Noah were all part of a n to lure us into a trap. A while ago, your Williams Group and the Gardner family secured a major partnership, and it was a deal heavily favored The Gardner family. Nothing in this worldes without a price. My father said there must have been some secret deal between the Williams family and the Gardner family. And that deal was your cooperation in Joshua''s setup, with the goal of taking my brother''s life..."


    King Wright was not as easily fooled as his daughter. He hadn''t looked too deeply into the incident where Aurora saved Princess Wright from drowning, thinking it was a good way for them to meet. But now that a life was on the line the life of the future heir to the German throne-King Wright couldn''t help but think more deeply.


    He felt that something was suspicious right from the beginning, starting with Princess Wright falling into the water.


    Taken individually, each event could be a coincidence. But so many coincidences lined up together... that had to be intentional.


    Aurora found the whole thing absurd.


    "Wright, your father has misunderstood us," Aurora said. "While we did form a partnership with The Gardner Group, there were no secret agreements. Besides, killing Eason would bring us no benefit..."


    Even as she said it, Aurora knew her exnation would be unconvincing to the Wright family.


    It was an undeniable fact that Joshua and The Williams Group had made a deal. And it was indeed a very generous deal. Otherwise, Skyler and Jonathan wouldn''t have been willing to swallow their pride and y nice.


    Princess Wright said, "Aurora, I believe you''re not that kind of person, which is why I called you. But... it doesn''t matter if I believe you, because my father doesn''t. He thinks the Williams family and the Gardner family have teamed up to try and take down our family..."


    It sounded incredible. After all, the Wright family was royalty, not easily toppled. But


    on second thought, the Gardner family was the wealthiest in the world, and the


    Williams family''s power and connections were not to be underestimated.


    If those two major families conspired to take down the Wright family with a well- thought-out n, it wasn''t entirely impossible.