Chapter 17: The Secret of The Harris Family


    Charlotte had stopped eating upon hearing her words.


    Victoria’s voice rang again, “That night was the most depressed and painful night in Lance’s life.”


    Her eyes were set on the wisteria and roses which had crept along the wall in the courtyard, and her


    son’s bearing on that night five years ago had suddenly materialized before her eyes again.


    “When you had called him that night and promised to elope with him, he was on cloud nine that he had


    even skipped his meal, and all he did was only urging me to pack overnight so that we could leave City


    B together.”


    “In actual fact, someone from the Harris family hade over three days before your call as they had


    wanted to bring him back. He is the bloodline of the Harris family; hence he naturally possesses the


    secret of the Harris family. The reason that they hade for him was because he had to return to his


    ce when he turned twenty-three in order to safeguard that secret.”


    Charlotte’s brows were slightly knitted as she had recalled that Lawrence did inform her that he wished


    to divulge his secret to her after they had eloped together during their call on that fateful night.


    Unfortunately, she did not have the chance to be able to hear from him anymore.


    “That night, Lance had told me that he wanted to let you in on his secret which was not to be revealed


    to anyone before he left City B as he wanted you to make the call of whether both of you should go


    back to the Harris family together or live your own life outside.”


    “He had already decided that he would renounce his rights of inheritance in the Harris family in order to


    protect you if you were to return to the Harris family with him, and if you ever chose to run away with


    him, he would be willing to shoulder the consequences of not being able to safeguard that secret for


    the Harris family as well. However, you…”


    Victoria turned her head back and cast a nce towards Charlotte as she continued, “I still


    remembered that he hade back in a drenched state that night looking extremely undone and


    disheartened, and he told me that he had been dumped by you. He sat on these steps at that time and


    drank his sorrows away bottle by bottle, falling asleep when he was drunk and continued drinking when


    he came to. I just let him be as I knew how devastated he was at heart.”


    “However, when I had woken up afterwards, I found out that he had copsed on the steps with his


    whole body covered with blood, but he was still cutting his own body with a knife and asking me


    incessantly, why couldn’t he feel any pain?”


    Victoria was still able to recall clearly that hair-raising and horrifying incident despite many years had


    passed by as it was such a dreadful sight.


    She was frightened out of her wits at that time, and when she had insisted to send Lawrence to the


    hospital while urging him to not take things too hard, he grabbed her hand instead and shook his head


    with tears welling up in his eyes, and he let out a lowugh in the end, “I’m not trying tomit suicide,


    Mom. I just want to know whether I will feel any pain. You have no idea what I have done after


    Charlotte has broken up with me. I have slept with someone else too, so we’re never going back to


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    whom we used to be anymore. It’s impossible to go back anymore…”


    Bang!


    Charlotte suddenly knocked over the bowl in front of her without any warning after Victoria had just


    finished her words, and she started to shriek with pain, “That’s enough, Victoria. I beg of you, please


    don’t say anything anymore.”


    She squatted down on the ground with her face buried in her hands as she whimpered mournfully and


    apologized repeatedly, “I’m sorry, Victoria. I’m truly sorry to have let him down, It’s all my fault!”


    Charlotte got up on her feet by holding on to the edge of the table after wailing her heart out, and she


    proceeded to rush out the door in the next instant like a gust of wind while stumbling past Victoria.


    “Lotta.” Victoria’s anxious voice sounded from the back as she tried to stop Charlotte from leaving, “I


    don’t know what happened to you. However, Lance will definitely help you out if you had got to


    undertake all bitterness. Trust me.”


    Charlotte quickened her pace upon hearing her affirmation and rushed out without even looking back at


    her, and she had run all the way out of the courtyard in just a few seconds.


    However, she had failed to notice that a ck Bentley was heading towards her after making a turn at


    the corner as she was still caught up in her emotions.


    When she had finally realized and turned her head sideways, she was instantly met with a pair of frosty


    eyes which had caused her blood to freeze all over. She was thrown into a daze right at that moment,


    and she stood still on the spot while letting the car charged towards her…