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After letting out a deep sigh, Will spoke in his maic baritone, “Even if you hadn’t married Ethan, we would still be closely bound. Your parents and I… we were very close friends-”
“Don’t mention them to me!”
Dawn’s eyes instantly turned red as she stared straight at him.
Her heaving chest seemed to be holding back an extreme surge of emotion.
“Friends? Closely bound? Will, I’m not cursing you because you’re older, not because I actually respect <i>you</i>. When you say those two words, don’t you feel any guilt at all?”
A flicker of remorse crossed Will’s face before he lowered his gaze.
He rubbed his fingers together. “I…
“I really did wrong your mother.”
His voice was low and hoarse, as if even after preparing himself, it was still hard to say. “Dawn, strictly speaking, these things have nothing to do with you. But if you truly want to know, then I’ll tell you everything.”
It wasn’t hot out, but the temperature was still around 74 degrees. Will was wearing a 3–piece suit with a ck trench coatyered over it.
That kind of outfit only sharpened the image of a sessful businessman etched into his bones.
Whether from heat or nerves, a fine sheen of sweat appeared on his forehead.
He took <i>one </i>step forward. Dawn took one step back.
The distance and wariness were obvious.
Dawn didn’t miss the hurt in his eyes. She curled her lips in mockery. “Since you know you’re guilty, then confess. I’m listening.”
Back in Will’s generation, the Jacksons, the Porters, and the Swansons were all neighbors. The children naturally became ymates <i>and </i>grew up together.
Vera had the best temperament of them all. And as she grew more beautiful, admirers started lining up around her from middle school onward.
Will and Horace Porter took on the role of knights. Every time a boy confessed, the two of them would curse him until he fled in humiliation.
“Vera, you’re still young. You absolutely can’t be fooled by those punks, got it? They’re all up to no good!”
“Exactly. If you’re going to date, it should be in collegel”
“Right, and even then, it definitely shouldn’t be with those guys!”
Something about that didn’t sound quite right.
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Seeing the strange looks on their faces, Horaceughed it off and smoothed things over.
Youth meant everyone had the right to express love, pursue freedom, and burn with passion.
Will and Horace came from simr backgrounds, were good–looking, and were both standout figures at school.
The trio drew the most attention, yet no outsider could squeeze their way in.
That situationsted all the way until high school graduation.
At 18, it was the age when feelings first blossomed.
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At this point, Will paused. In his deep, story–filled eyes, there was a trace of regret. “The man your mother loved was your father. And I… Back then, I was young and arrogant. I didn’t believe she felt only friendship toward me.”
“So you forced her?”
Dawn’s eyes were bloodshot. The words were almost squeezed out between her teeth.
“I don’t want to hear about your youthful grudges and tangled emotions. I only want to know this–what did you actually do to my motherter on? How did she die? And… the person who humiliated her again and again, was it you?”
A gust of wind swept through<b>, </b>rustling the leaves all around them.
In the dead, heavy air, Pandora’s box seemed to finally open.
Will’s brows drew tight. His well–kept face was filled with restraint and pain. That once–upright posture had lost all its former vigor.
He stayed silent. Dawn’s face grew paler by the second.
Certain memories came rushing in like a flood. Vincent’s voice echoed in her ears.
“Dawn, it was him! He couldn’t have her<b>, </b>so he vited your mother again and again. In the end, to cover up his crimes, he set fire to the entire Porter residence. <i>Your </i>parents both died because of him.
“When your morn was in college, she dated once. It was with her childhood sweetheart–yourter adoptive father, Horace. From that moment on, Will became consumed by jealousy, and it spiraledpletely out of control.
“Do you know how horribly your mother died? If it weren’t for him, you wouldn’t have had to live under someone else’s roof for so many years. Dawn, you have to avenge your mother and adoptive father. You have to make Will pay in blood!”
Even the therapist had said, “Your psychological condition can only heal if you resolve the problem at its root, Ms. West. My advice is that you uncover the truth as soon as possible and give the dead the justice they deserve.”
Three years ago, she’d been seriously injured. Her mind had broken as well.
Vincent had arranged for a top–tier psychiatrist.
But perhaps because of the trauma to her brain, she dreamed of Vera more and more often. She even began to hallucinate.
Vincent had already gathered partial evidence proving that the fire was connected to Will.
Including her uncle, Lucas, who had also been bought off by him.
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But Lucas had lived overseas for years. Aside from the Jacksons, no one knew where he actually was. It seemed he was deliberately avoiding anyone who might try to dig deeper.
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