Ch. 2361..2370
Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 2361 by desirenovel
Joshua then curled his lips into a smile as he said, “By then, you can have a branch office each in Banyan City and Merchant City, so you can still work while keeping your parents, me, and the kids company.”
Luna felt stirred by Joshua’s suggestion. She bit her lip and looked at Joshua. “You’ve…thought of all these already?”
It was only yesterday when she thought that both Lynch Group and Landry Group could fund the jewelry company together; she had never told anyone about this idea before. Nevertheless, Joshua had the same idea as her and even started to think of the best steps necessary to make it happen.
A branch office in both Banyan City and Merchant City… She would be able to live with Joshua and the kids in Banyan Cit, and when work was required, she could go to Merchant City. With that arrangement, she could take care of both her family and her parents.
Luna sighed and went to hug Joshua from the back.” Thank you.”
Joshua smiled. “You don’t have to thank me.”
He then pulled Luna to the dining table. “Try my cooking.
Luna was in a good mood, so she silently took a bite of the breakfast Joshua prepared.
Well… The taste was alright, but it was a little difficult to swallow. Nevertheless, for Joshua’s sake, she forced herself to eat.
Since Luna was the first one to try the food and successfully swallowed it, the three kids decided to try it after looking at each other. Nellie had eaten Joshua’s cooking before, so she was the last one to eat it.
However…
“Daddy, I think it’s best if you leave the cooking to other people,” concluded Neil after he and his siblings tried Joshua’s cooking. “You’re already very busy with your work. You should just leave the cooking to the maid.”
Nigel nodded. “Or Mom can cook. She can cook something tasty to show you her love.”
Nellie, too, nodded. “That’s right, Daddy! You can just bake us some biscuits and make coffee in the future!”
Joshua squinted at his children’s comments, his sharp, angular face darkening. “Is it that bad?”
After that, he took a bite. Seconds later, the fine facial features of the all-powerful man nearly crumpled entirely as he forced himself to swallow his dish. “Yes, you’re all correct.”
Suddenly, he thought of Luna since she was the first one to try it yet said nothing to suggest she thought of his cooking negatively. He looked at Luna. “Why do you still eat it when it’s terrible?”
Luna continued to eat silently while looking at him with a gentle smile. “It’s the thought that counts. I don’t care if it tastes bad.”
Joshua furrowed his brows and took away the food from Luna. “Let’s eat out.”
He turned, planning on bringing his wife and children to eat breakfast. All of a sudden, Luna’s phone rang.
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Luna took her phone and glanced at the caller ID, only to notice that it was Rosalyn.
‘Why is she calling me so early in the morning?’ Luna furrowed her eyebrows and removed Joshua’s hand on her to answer the call.
“Mom.”
“Luna,” rang Rosalyn’s affectionate voice from the other end of the call. “Have you eaten yet? Why don’t you come and join us for breakfast if you haven’t? Butler Fred had prepared a scrumptious breakfast earlier this morning. He said we haven’t eaten together for a long time, and he even called Jim, asking him to return.
“I thought I’d call you, too. If you haven’t had your breakfast, come join us. If you’ve already had breakfast, you can still come over.”
Rosalyn could not help but sigh after she finished her sentence. “Butler Fred is very thoughtful. Your father and I have been bothered about the issue with Jim and Bonnie lately. You know it, too.
“We can’t keep the secret any longer. Jim will no doubt be mad at me when he finds out, so I thought that instead of letting him dislike me then, why don’t I take this chance to talk to him? To let him know that I meant well.”
Luna’s hand trembled slightly because of what Rosalyn said. ‘Butler Fred took the time to prepare breakfast and called Jim to go home to have breakfast?’
Her instincts told her that the breakfast could very well be a decoy. Butler Fred and Mickey tried to brainwash Luna for the past few days. They kept telling her that she was the real master of the Landry family, that they even stated that they would not mind putting up a fight with Jim for Luna if it was necessary. Hence, they must be up to something to have arranged the breakfast.
Luna took a deep breath. “Alright. I haven’t had my breakfast yet. I’ll go over now with Joshua-”
“Luna,” Rosalyn interjected before Luna could finish.” Since this is a family meal, perhaps don’t let Joshua join us. Can you come on your own?”
Luna paused and furrowed her eyebrows to ask, “Why? Joshua is my husband, so he’s a family member, too. Plus, all those things that happened between the two families had been proven to be just a misunderstanding. You remember that, yes?” Rosalyn sighed uncontrollably when she heard it. She kept silent for a while and only continued talking with a hoarse voice, “Luna, there’s something about the past that I’d like to talk about, and some of it is related to his family. So… Can you come on your own? Please?”
Luna furrowed her eyebrows as she noted how humbly Rosalyn asked of her. After a while, she nodded deeply.” Alright.”
It was clear that this could have been Butler Fred and Mickey’s idea to not let Joshua join. However, since Rosalyn was the one who requested this, Luna did not wish to defy her.
Nevertheless, Luna told Joshua everything after she hung up the phone. It was for her safety, after all.
“I still think you should come with me and wait for me outside. I’ll bring a listening device so you can listen to everything that’s happening inside.”
Joshua nodded and smoothed Luna’s hair. “You’re being more proactive now.”
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Joshua had thought Luna would share Rosalyn’s sentiment in thinking that it should remain within their family and keep it from him.
“Maybe there should be secrets between you and the Landry family, but I don’t want to have any secrets between us both.” Luna took a deep breath and looked at
Joshua seriously. “I’m tired of suspicion and betrayal. After yesterday, I realized that there was a conflict between us, and the misunderstanding was because you weren’t being truthful with me and my habit of being suspicious.
“I know that from your point of view, you think that you don’t have to tell me a lot of things, but…
“I can try to control myself from being suspicious. Similarly, it isn’t right to treat people the same way you don’t like people treating you. Since I don’t like your dishonesty and suspicion, the least I can do is to be honest with you so you don’t have to suspect anything. That, I can do.”
Joshua furrowed his eyebrows tightly. He was quiet for a while before finally smiling at Luna. “When did I say I can’t be honest with you? It’s just that sometimes, I think that telling you those things will just make you miserable like me.”
He reached out and pulled Luna into his arms. “I promise that I’ll tell you everything that you want to know in the future. If there’s anything that you like to know, anything at all, I’ll be honest with you.”
Joshua’s voice and embrace made Luna’s heart flutter with warmth. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, grabbing Joshua’s hand as she did. “Alright, we have a deal.”
Luna started to arrange for the maid to bring the three children out for breakfast. At the same time, Joshua had prepared everything.
He put the invisible listening earbud into Luna’s hand.” Just put this in your ear. Once you’re there, don’t panic no matter what happens; I’ll help you. Don’t do anything reckless without my permission, and don’t agree to anything easily. Can you remember that?” Luna nodded. She placed the listening earbud into her ear and hid the invisible mic at her collar. “I’ll remember.” After that, Luna took a deep breath and started to test the listening device before she opened the door to leave the car.
On the second floor of Landry Mansion, Butler Fred stood at the window as he watched Luna exit the black Masevati. He squinted evilly. ‘Can this woman be manipulated?’
For some reason, he felt that Luna was not as naive as she looked, but…
Compared to Rosalyn, Charles, and Jim, Luna was the kindest woman and the easiest to manipulate. He had no better choice than her, and that was the only option he had.
Jim seemed to have just returned when Luna entered the mansion. He was taking off his coat at the door when he
turned and noticed Luna.
His eyes were red-rimmed, she noted, but there was a smile on his face as he stared at her. “I thought you were already here.”
He had been taking care of Bonnie for the whole night and did not sleep well. When he received the call from Butler Fred, he waited no more and rushed back home. He thought that Luna was already here and everyone else was waiting for him. Despite being tired, he insisted on coming back.
To his amazement , his dearest sister arrived later than him.
“Hehe…” Luna smiled shyly as she raised her head to look at Jim. “Has Bonnie woken up?”
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“It’s not that simple.” Jim smiled bitterly when Luna asked about Bonnie’s condition. His angular face mellowed into faint hopelessness. “I talked for a long time last night, and I don’t know if she can even hear me.
Jim was looking at Luna, but it was like his sight bypassed Luna’s body and gazed at another distant place. “Come to think of it, she only has four days remaining. Four days…” He smiled bitterly. “If she wakes up, I can at least say goodbye to her. If she doesn’t…” After a sniff, he continued, “If she doesn’t wake up, I can only apologize to her in person after I die.
“To be honest, I regret it all now. If we don’t have Harvey, and if I didn’t promise her that I’d take care of Harvey… I’d want to die with her. We could go to heaven together and maybe reincarnate together so we’d likely not lose each other in the next life. I want to know her before getting to know Number -9 in my next life. Then, there won’t be any problem with Number-9 or Charlotte…
Despite bearing a smile as he talked, Luna could see from his smile how desperate his heart was. At this moment, Luna wanted to tell him that Bonnie was indeed Number -9
All these years, the only woman that he felt intense remorse for was the same one all along!
Regardless, Luna decided against it.
It was not because she did not feel pity for Jim and Bonnie’s relationship. The main reason was that she knew Bonnie would wake up after four days instead of dying as Jim thought. By then, all the sorrow and despair Jim felt would become astonishment and surprise. Moreover, Bonnie had kept her ‘real Number-9’ identity a secret all this while, and if Luna told Jim this, Bonnie might be bitter when she woke up. Having that thought in mind, Luna decided to keep her silence and pretended to know nothing.
“What are you two talking about here?”
Rosalyn, at this moment, spotted Luna and Him from across the dining room. “Come on in! What secret are you two talking about? Can’t your father and I hear it, too?”
Luna smiled and finally turned her gaze to Rosalyn.” Nothing. We were just talking.” After that, she walked into the dining room and sat beside Rosalyn. “Mother is right. We haven’t been eating as a whole family for a long time.”
If Bonnie was not in this condition, their family would have gathered during Jim and Bonnie’s wedding. Alas…
Luna sighed again and said nothing when she thought of Bonnie.
Rosalyn did not pay much attention to Luna’s feelings. She grabbed Luna’s hand and kept on asking about her grandchildren. Then, she turned her head to look at Jim.” How’s Bonnie doing?”
Jim curled his lips into a smile and repeated what he told Luna.
After knowing the whole story, Rosalyn lamented,” Actually, you don’t have to think of the worst-case scenario. There’s still a possibility that we can save Bonnie from dying.”
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“Perhaps Bonnie may miraculously wake up after four days instead of dying.”
Jim sneered at Rosalyn’s question. “Mother, you know I never believe in miracles; those illusory things are a distant concept to me. Moreover…”
He lowered his eyes while peeking at Butler Fred, who was arranging for the maids to serve the dishes with intention. “I listened to you and asked Christopher to come back. I thought he could help me to manufacture an antidote for Bonnie, but I didn’t expect…”
He squinted, and there was hatred in his eyes while he looked at Butler Fred. “I didn’t expect someone would use the problem with Christopher’s mental state to trigger his mental illness. Now, Christopher has gone crazy and nearly killed me in the process. A person who has lost their sanity couldn’t possibly manufacture the antidote.”
Jim closed his eyes and sighed. “If Bonnie dies, I’ll never forgive those people behind all this!”
At that moment, Luna spotted how Butler Fred trembled slightly. Mickey, who was holding a tray heading toward them, nearly fell as his legs wobbled. If Luna and Joshua were only assuming that Butler Fred and Mickey were the ones who pretended to be Bonnie
and wrote the letter to Bonnie yesterday, then with the reaction of Butler Fred and Mickey, Luna and Joshua could be certain that their suspicion was correct.
Butler Fred and Mickey were the ones who wrote that letter to Christopher!
“Don’t be so negative.” Rosalyn sighed and looked deeply into Jim’s eyes. “Don’t worry; Bonnie won’t die. I can promise you that.”
However, Jim did not understand the real meaning behind it. “I’ll accept this as your blessing, Mother.” With that, he took the cup of coffee from the table and finished it in one go.
Soon, the table was full of dishes.
Rosalyn was right. Butler Fred did prepare a scrumptious family breakfast for all of them. The last time Luna had eaten such a lavish breakfast was one year ago, when she first arrived at the Landry Mansion and reunited with her parents.
Everyone took a seat at the dining table.
“Luna, Jim.” Rosalyn sighed as she had her breakfast and looked at Jim and Luna, who were sitting across from her. “I’ve asked you two to come because I have something to tell you two.” Luna furrowed her brows and looked at Rosalyn puzzled.” Go on.”
“I didn’t let Joshua join us because it was related to the Lynch family.”
Rosalyn sighed. She took some salad and served it to Luna when another sigh escaped her. “I remembered you saying that the cause of Joshua’s grandmother , Granny Lynch’s death is related to the poison that I had studied to heal your dad’s sickness, correct?”
Luna’s heart throbbed heavily. “Y-Yes.”
“This is the thing that I want to talk to you about.” Rosalyn sighed and looked at Luna solemnly. “I was the one who arranged it.”
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Luna’s hand that hovered over her cutleries froze the second she heard Rosalyn speak. She looked up and was dumbfounded by what Rosalyn said. Her face was so stiff that she could not force her expression to fall into normalcy.
‘How is that possible? From the investigation result Joshua received, the people behind it were Butler Fred and Mickey. The timing matches when Granny Lynch was poisoned, and Mickey left Landry Mansion to go back to his hometown. I refuse to believe that Mother was the one who did it.’ Luna thought and she raised her head subconsciously to look at Butler Fred and Mickey.
Perhaps Butler Fred never thought Luna would suddenly look at him because all this while, he stared at Rosalyn with a peculiarly pleasant gaze as though elated his plan had worked. Suddenly, he sensed that Luna was looking at him, and he quickly turned his body slightly to meet Luna’s eyes.
He was caught off-guard for only a moment before he offered her a flattering smile, one that made Luna feel uneasy.
She took a deep breath and bit her lip before she lowered her head to continue her breakfast.
Jim looked at Rosalyn as he curled up his lips remotely.”
Mother, I know you’re a kind woman. Maybe you’d take the blame for the things that you didn’t do and put it on yourself for some reason, but…”
Jim looked at Luna, then at Butler Fred, and finally gazed at Rosalyn once more. “In this case, I hope you won’t take the blame for this because you have a soft heart. Think about it…”
He paused for a while. “Granny Lynch is Joshua’s grandmother and my biological mother’s mother. We didn’t want to pursue this further because you’re my foster mother and Luna’s mother. Yes, the poison that Granny Lynch had is somehow related to you, but we’re not willing to talk about this when we haven’t investigated the truth behind it, so I don’t understand why you’re doing this now.”
He sneered, and for once, he was less respectful to Rosalyn. “Are you insisting on taking the blame and making me and Luna feel embarrassed? Or are you trying to sabotage the relationship between Luna and Joshua because you think they’re now in a good stage?”
Rosalyn nearly dropped the cutleries she was holding as she felt how sharp and ruthless these questions were aimed at her. Although she knew and understood why Jim would ask those questions, but…
She took a deep breath. “I just want to tell you the truth, that’s all. If you still think of me as your mother, think of our family, then don’t ever talk about this anymore. Let it
rot in hell. But if you insist on investigating it, then let it be known that I was the one who did it. It had nothing to do with anyone else.”
Luna could not help but make eye contact with Jim. Both of them understood the situation very clearly.
Rosalyn would not have brought this up inexplicably; someone must have talked her into it. Thus, summing up how Butler Fred and Mickey took the time to prepare breakfast today…
Luna had every right to suspect that Butler Fred and Mickey must have known that Joshua and Jim were investigating the truth. They realized that the truth would unveil soon, so they deliberately went to Rosalyn to have this moment.
Rosalyn was a kind woman and placed immense trust in Butler Fred and Mickey. As long as they played the pity game with crocodile tears and said something to persuade her, Rosalyn would not bear to punish them, thus shouldering the blame entirely on her own.
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Going through all those thoughts internally, Luna secretly pressed the mic on her collar and communicated with Joshua. “What should we do?”
Joshua’s calm, steady voice was heard from the concealed earbud. “I think we were too late; they’ve taken a step ahead of us. Still, it’s okay.”
His low voice was very remote. “Mother-in-law would never discover Butler Fred and Mickey’s real identities if they don’t fool her once. Just follow the things I say, and don’t hint at Jim. I’m sure he’ll understand what we’re trying to get at.”
Luna bit her lip. “Alright.”
Joshua’s voice slowly rang in the earbud, and Luna was stunned when she finished listening to Joshua’s plan.
She subconsciously turned to look at Jim, and moments later, she inhaled deeply and glared at him. “What are you trying to get at, Jim? Are you saying our mother isn’t the mastermind ? That she’s framed? Who’d dare frame our mother?”
Jim furrowed his brow tightly at Luna’s abnormal reaction. He believed Luna knew the truth, that there was no reason for Joshua to keep it a secret from his wife if he had already told Jim.
However, from Luna’s reaction, he felt he had never really understood Luna.
By right, Luna should be siding with him, targeting their common enemies and revealing Butler Fred and Mickey’s true colors. Why was she siding with Rosalyn and helping Butler Fred and Mickey all of a sudden?
Looking at Jim’s shock-filled gaze, Luna knew Joshua was wrong. Jim did not guess her real purpose and even thought that she had changed. However, she could not possibly tell Jim the truth at this point.
She sneered while looking at Jim. “Why? Cat got your tongue? Or you can’t think of any other excuses?” She looked at Jim remotely in a glance and then looked at Rosalyn again. “Just ignore him, Mother. Let’s continue with our breakfast. It’s been a long time since we’ve gathered.”
She even helped to place more food onto Rosalyn’s plate.
However, before Luna could finish placing the food onto Rosalyn’s plate, Jim curled up his lips coldly and slammed his cutleries onto the table.
“What are you saying, Luna? Don’t forget that Granny Lynch is Joshua’s grandmother! If you want to be with Joshua, you shouldn’t allow Mother to take this fault!
“Do you think there isn’t enough misunderstanding and conflicts between you and Joshua?”
Luna snorted at Jim’s outburst as she, too, slammed her cutleries to the table. “Jim Landry, I hope you’ll remember the torment your grandmother, Granny Lynch, had done to us!”
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“Do you really think Granny Lynch isn’t guilty of Uncle Colin Landry’s death, even when the Quinn family had instigated everything? How many times has our business nearly entered into bankruptcy because of the Lynch family? Which of these had nothing to do with Granny Lynch?
“She even sent an assassin to kill Father and Mother! Mother only sent someone to poison her in Banyan City, and she didn’t die right away. Granny Lynch even lived for many years ahead even after being poisoned , didn’t she?”
Luna sneered halfway through the conversation. “Now that the feud between our family and the Lynch family is solved, are you not willing to admit the things that happened? If Mother said she did it, then she did it. No one is worthy enough that Mother would shoulder the blame for them, isn’t that right?”
She looked at Rosalyn’s face seriously. “Mother, am I right?”
Rosalyn’s face looked terrible as she looked at Luna’s sincere face. Somehow, she managed to muster a weak smile. “That’s right, Luna. No one in this world is worthy of me to take the blame for them, so yes, I was the one who did it.”
After that, she looked at Butler Fred and pushed her wheelchair to Luna, grabbing her hands gently. “Thank you for believing in me.”
Luna curled her lips into a smile. “Mother, you don’t have to thank me. I’m your daughter.”
After that, she looked at Jim wordlessly. Despite her silence, however, her eyes reflected her thoughts with vicious intent.
Thus, Jim sneered and stood up. His movement was so rough that the chair behind him dropped to the floor. However, Jim did not care and just walked away, bypassing the chair.
When he reached the door to the dining room, he sneered without turning back. “After all, the three of you are the real family. I’ve always been an outsider.”
He smiled coldly. “No matter how hard I try to fit in, no matter how hard I worked, to you, I was just a b*stard from the Lynch family. If that’s the case, I won’t be coming here anymore. I’ve found my mother’s grave, met my half-brother, and I got Joshua with me, too. I have no reason to return here anymore.”
With that, Jim left, his legs taking him in large strides.
Rosalyn looked at Jim’s back and bit her lip. “Jim…”
“I’ll go take a look.” Charles sighed and went after Jim, noticing the look of panic on Rosalyn’s face. No matter
what happened, Jim would also be his son.
If Jim had a conflict with Rosalyn and Luna, he should be the middleman.
“Father!” After just taking a few steps, however, Luna stopped Charles from leaving. She lowered her head and continued to have her breakfast while looking at Jim’s retreating form remotely. “Don’t go after him. He already said he’s not a Landry, so he won’t come back here anymore. Why do you need to go after him? It’ll be just a waste of time and energy.”
Luna then continued to enjoy her breakfast and urged Rosalyn and Charles to continue eating, much to Charles’ bewilderment.
He looked at Luna, puzzled , before he gazed at Rosalyn again. ‘What’s going on? Luna and Jim weren’t like this before at all!
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‘How did it turn out like this? They were only back for just a bit,’ Charles thought.
It was just yesterday that Luna posted a photo of her, Jim, and Bonnie on her social media account. She even wrote a post, hoping that Bonnie would wake up quickly so her dearest brother would no longer be alone. How did this’ dearest brother’ become an outsider just overnight?
Charles sighed as he looked at Rosalyn. Finally, he sat back down on the chair. It was not that he listened to Luna and decided not to go after Jim, but he remembered how Jim never wanted anyone to show up to him when he was in a bad mood, so it was not a good choice to go look after Jim right now. It was better to leave him alone.
The breakfast was awkward after the little fight they had. Everyone entertained their thoughts and was rather absent-minded during their meal.
After breakfast , Charles suggested bringing Rosalyn to the garden for a walk to ease her mood. “I’ll go with Luna. You can go ahead and do whatever you wish.” Rosalyn rejected his offer with a smile and waved her hand at Luna. “Do you mind accompanying me for a while?”
Luna was stunned but nonetheless nodded. She went behind Rosalyn and gently pushed her wheelchair as they made their way to the garden.
“You two, come with us,” instructed Rosalyn faintly when they walked past Butler Fred and Mickey.
Butler Fred and Mickey looked at each other and followed Luna and Rosalyn to the garden behind the mansion, their expressions looking rather sour.
Rosalyn, seated in the wheelchair, gazed at the man made mountain and stream, her lips curled into a faint smile. “I’m grateful, Luna. Thank you for believing in me. “She looked at the mountain, which was at a far distance, while her thoughts seemed to fly over the fake mountain to a place far far away.
“I know my excuse was very lame today. You might also wonder why won’t I admit it previously if I was the one who did it, right?” asked Rosalyn.
Luna stayed silent. That was until she took a deep breath and looked at Rosalyn’s face. “Yes.”
To Luna, Rosalyn was an honest and truthful person. If Rosalyn was the one who did it, she would have admitted it long ago instead of waiting to come clean on this day.
“You still choose to believe me.” Rosalyn sighed. She reached out her hand to grab Luna’s hand. “I’m very grateful for the trust that you have in me, but…”
She closed her eyes. “I let you down. I lied.”
Luna bit her lip and said with a hoarse voice, “Then… what did you lie about?”
“I think you know what I mean.” Rosalyn smiled faintly as she then turned to look at Butler Fred and Mickey, who both stood behind her. “You two! It’s about time for you to tell the truth.”
Butler Fred and Mickey kneeled at the same time, with Butler Fred burying his head into his arms.
“Mickey and I did it, but…” He sighed while speaking remorsefully and self-deprecatingly , “There’s a reason why we did it.
“On that year, Ma’am, during a time she was intoxicated, said she wanted to poison Granny Lynch.” .
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Butler Fred‘s voice became hoarse and smoky as he continued, “Ma‘am has always been a person of her word. Since she said she wanted to poison Granny Lynch when she was drunk, I thought she meant it for real. Hence…”
Butler Fred stayed quiet for a moment and looked deeply into Luna‘s eyes. “Hence, Mickey and I had followed through with her order secretly. After many years, Ma‘am had never asked us about the process of poison, and we, in turn, never reported back to her. After all, it was an offensive and harmful thing.”
Luna‘s face turned pale instantly after listening to Butler Fred‘s explanation as she quietly wrung her hands together under the table. Shivers ran across her skin.
‘So...that‘s the truth? Is this all there is to it? Mother was the one who said she wanted to poison Granny Lynch to Butler Fred and Mickey when she was drunk, so that‘s why they.... Luna‘s head could not process the truth.
“Don‘t fall prey to their words so easily,” rang Joshua‘s voice from the concealed earbud just as Luna nearly fell into the answer. “If it happened as Butler Fred said, they only followed the order from your mother‘s drunken words. What evidence do they have to prove it?” Luna‘s heart felt less burdened upon hearing this.
She took a deep breath and looked at Butler Fred and Mickey. “Butler Fred, I know you‘re very loyal to the family, but I can‘t believe your words solely like that. You said you did what you did because my mother ordered you and Mickey to poison Granny Lynch when she was drunk, but do you have evidence to prove it? If there‘s no evidence, I‘d assume you‘re just saying things.”
The air in the garden suddenly grew dense as Butler Fred, Mickey, and Rosalyn looked at Luna together in disbelief. First of all, Rosalyn never expected Luna to request evidence from Butler Fred and Mickey. Secondly, Butler Fred and Mickey never thought Luna could be so sensitive with details.
After a moment of silence, Rosalyn was the one to break the ice, “Luna, Butler Fred and Mickey have been working for us for nearly thirty years. They‘ve proven their loyalty to me and never did anything bad to me. I believe that they wouldn‘t fabricate the truth out of thin air. After all...
Rosalyn sighed. “More than twenty years ago, I had a hard time due to your father‘s illness and you being lost. During that time, Granny Lynch was relentless with the attacks to destroy the Landry Group. I was very tired at that time, so there‘s a possibility that I might‘ve said something about killing Granny Lynch.”
After all these years, Rosalyn had never doubted Butler Fred and Mickey‘s loyalty. They had been with her through all kinds of experiences all these years. Thus, no matter what happened , she would never suspect them.
However, Luna did not think so.
She took a deep breath. “I only believe the evidence when I see it. Words can be fabricated, and without any evidence, Butler Fred can just say that he only killed a person because it was an order from you or even Father. I won‘t believe him just because he said that is the truth.”