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Chapter 70 They Knew and Let It Happen
When Tracy met Felicia’s gaze, it was cold and sinister.
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In that instant, Tracy knew that Felicia had heard the name she hadn’t had a chance to fully say.
Chris dragged her out of the hall and shoved her into a guest lounge.
His usual gentle and gentlemanly demeanor waspletely gone, reced by a dark, grim face.
Braced for it, Tracy stumbled a couple of steps before steadying herself and meeting his re without flinching.
Chris spoke through gritted teeth, “How do you know Derek?”
With the fa?ade gone, Tracy saw no point in pretending. “Mr. Woodward, you don’t know how I met him?”
She smirked mockingly. “Didn’t you send him to that ce yourself?”
Chris’s face turned ghostly pale, and his angry demeanor suddenly faltered.
“You …” He choked on his words. “Did he send you here?”
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Tracy stayed silent, just looking at his face without any emotion.
She didn’t understand Chris’s reaction.
Is it fear?
<i>Guilt</i><i>? </i>
<i>Or </i>regret<i>? </i>
It felt like forever before Chris finally spoke. “What were you trying to tell my mother? Did he tell you to pass on some kind of message?”
Tracy shook her head. “He did, but it wasn’t for Felicia. It was for you.”
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Chris’s eyes flickered. “What is it?”
“Before I pass on his words, answer me one question first.”
Tracy took a step closer to him, her gaze bing intense. “You took over his identity, so why do you still go by the name Chris?”
Chris looked up abruptly, meeting her eyes, which seemed to be looking right through him.
He wasn’t a fool and quickly figured out what had happened. “He told you everything?”
Tracy nodded, not denying it.
Derek and Chris were identical twins.
Before they were ten, they were both Albert’s illegitimate children.
The older brother, Derek, was smart and a fast learner. He was kind, gentle, and good at making friends.
The younger brother, Chris, was shy and quiet and had a congenital heart condition.
The Woodwards‘ business was built by both Albert and Felicia, so a divorce would be bad for both of them. And Felicia couldn’t bear children.
So Felicia took Derek and Chris from their biological mother and sent them abroad to be trained in secret. She told everyone that her children were sick and were getting treatment abroad.
But the Woodwards would only have one heir.
The more capable Derek was the obvious choice.
So on their first day back from abroad, Chris drugged Derek, secretly sent him to Angelic Etiquette Academy, and took his ce as the “Woodwards‘ only son.”
That was the story Derek told Tracy.
But if Chris had really taken his brother’s identity, he should have introduced
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himself as “Derek.”
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That’s why Tracy knew something was wrong the first time he introduced himself.
She wanted to see Albert and Felicia for two reasons. First, to expose what Chris had done to his own brother.
Second, she wanted to ask them on behalf of Derek about their role in the whole “taking his identity but not his name” thing.
As Chris looked at Tracy’s eyes, which were so desperate for an answer, he felt like he was seeing his own reflection.
He must’ve <i>wanted </i><i>to </i><i>know </i><i>the </i><i>answer </i><i>just as </i><i>badly</i>.
Chris suddenlyughed. “Haven’t you always been the smart one? Mom and Dad knew we were twins, but they let me keep my own name when I took your ce. Can’t you figure out why?”
He was looking at Tracy, but it seemed like he was speaking to someone else through her.
Tracy’s eyes darkened–she got exactly what he meant.
Thinking back to the look Felicia had given her earlier, Tracy could tell Felicia knew what she was going to ask, yet didn’t want her to say it out loud.
Because Felicia had not only silently agreed to it, she might’ve helped make it happen.
Chris was still smiling, but it was a cold smile, with a trace of madness.
He looked as if he was seeing his twin brother, who had always loomed over him like a dark cloud, standing before him.
“All our lives<i>, </i>you’ve been the better one, the one people liked more. And me? With this damn heart condition, I didn’t even have a friend.
“We came from the same womb, with the same face, so why did you always have to be better than me in everything?
“So what if you’re so great? No outsiders know you exist. I’m the Woodwards‘ heir
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now, and I’m the one everyone likes!”
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After his outburst, Chris’s eyes began to clear, but his smile was still arrogant and unhinged.
“Tracy, do you think telling my mom will save Derek? Here’s the truth–before I even made my move, my parents already knew what I was going to do to him, and they let it happen.”
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