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Pursuing My Ex-Wife Isn’t Easy chapter 2371 by desirenovel
Butler Fred squinted sharply after listening to Luna‘s words. “I‘m impressed. Ms. Luna is no doubt the sole heir of the Landry family. You‘re so calm with the sharp observation that scares many people.”
After a sigh, he took out a recording device from his pocket. “Of course, Ms. Luna has the right to suspect me. How would I dare try to ruin Ma‘am‘s reputation without the evidence?”
He walked toward Luna and bowed respectfully at her while placing the recording device in Luna’s hand. “You can play the recording. If you still think I was talking nonsense after listening to it, there‘s nothing more I can say.”
Luna furrowed her eyebrows and squeezed the recording device tightly. She looked at the device in her as her heart pounded faster. All this time, she thought that Butler Fred and Mickey did not have any evidence to prove the things they said. Just as Joshua said, if they were unable to present any evidence, Rosalyn would not be able to take the fault. However...this recording device was obviously the evidence that Butler Fred prepared.
Luna‘s finger hovered over the play button, but her heart resisted her from pressing it.
She was scared. She was scared to hear Rosalyn‘s voice from the recording device when she played the audio. She was scared to find out that Rosalyn truly was the one behind Granny Lynch‘s death.
If that was the case, then she would not know how to face Joshua . Jim would have a hard time knowing the truth,
too.
“Press it.” Even though Joshua was far from Luna, he could hear Luna‘s heavy breathing from the mic. He knew what she was scared of and why she was hesitating , but there were some truths that one could not just run away from.
Luna bit her lip as she heard Joshua coaxing her. As she gritted her teeth, she finally played the audio.
“Tell me, Butler Fred: how can Granny Lynch be so cruel? Is she still unsatisfied with what she did to us and how hard we‘re trying to get by now?
“You‘re right – you’re absolutely right. If it weren‘t for her, I wouldn‘t be in this situation now. I wouldn‘t even have lost my daughter in the first place! Butler Fred, is there any way to make this old woman disappear forever? ” rang the voice of a younger Rosalyn from the device. The audio continued.
“The medicine that I used to treat Charles could do the job. We just need to give it to her, little by little, and she‘ll
“Butler Fred, I‘m counting on you. I‘m counting on both you and Mickey. There‘s something that I just can‘t bear to do myself.”
Luna felt devastated, and it felt as though her heart was grabbed by an invisible giant hand in a vice–like grip.
She was right. As expected, it was Rosalyn‘s idea. Although she did not know what happened in the end, her mother was the main culprit. If she did not tell Butler Fred about the medicine, had she not told Butler Fred to get rid of Granny Lynch, everything else would not have happened.
Butler Fred would not poison Granny Lynch, and Granny Lynch would not have...
Having those thoughts in her mind, Luna shut her eyes. A vision of the last hours Granny Lynch was alive appeared in Luna’s mind.
Even until the last moment of her life, Granny Lynch left the only antidote to Nellie. While she could be a wicked woman sometimes, she was just paranoid and persistent to seek revenge for her daughter all these years. Luna sighed as she thought of those.
Just as she was about to say something, she heard Joshua‘s voice from the earbud.
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“Luna, from now on, don‘t believe anything they say and just listen to me. You just have to repeat the things I’ll say, alright?” Joshua sounded anxious as he talked gently. “I still don‘t believe your mother would say those things, not even if she was drunk, so please don‘t be disappointed in her, and don‘t think that you can‘t face me. Do you hear me?
“Even if it was your mother‘s idea, it was influenced by the feud from the previous generation. It had nothing to do with you.”
Luna shut her eyes and bitterly smiled. ‘Is that so? Does the feud from the previous generation have nothing to do with me and Joshua at all? If it is that easy to let go of the feud between them, then why does Joshua have to live with me in Merchant City for more than a year? Why did Joshua want to settle the deal with the Landry family and the Quinn family? Why did Joshua have to leave again and again?‘
The reason why they were back together was not that their love for each other was bigger than the feud between their families. They knew the feud happened because of the Quinn family, and everything else happened because the Quinn family meddled in them. However, what about when Rosalyn tried to kill Granny Lynch? Did the Quinn family place their foot in it, too? No. Based on the evidence from Butler Fred, it had nothing to do with the Quinn family. It was just an idea that Rosalyn had, and Butler Fred and Mickey did it for her.
Could Joshua and Luna start all over with a clean slate? She did not know the answer herself. What she knew was when Rosalyn said it, when she asked Butler Fred and Mickey to do it...the Lynch family had only been attacking the Landry family business–wise.
Even if Granny Lynch did add insult to injury when the Landry family was at its lowest, it was the reason for Rosalyn to kill Granny Lynch.
“Luna.” Joshua had probably guessed what Luna was thinking. His voice became more anxious from the earbud. “Listen to me. If you believe in me–if you love me... Don‘t listen and believe anything they say. Just listen to me.
“We‘ve been together for such a long time. I can solve everything. Please, can you believe in me this time, too?”
It was rare that Joshua would say such things to Luna. As she listened to Joshua‘s gentle voice, she bit her lip as she gathered her resolution.
After a while, she lifted her head to look at Rosalyn and Butler Fred. “So, both of you really conspire together to kill Granny Lynch?”
In fact, it was not necessary to ask that question anymore. The recording device in Luna‘s hand had explained everything.
Rosalyn shut her eyes and leaned back on the wheelchair tiredly. Her voice sounded somewhat bitter as she replied, “I think that‘s correct. I was very intoxicated at that time, too. When I woke up, I didn‘t remember anything I said. Maybe it was just something I said because I was drunk. However, Butler Fred and Mickey thought I was serious, hence why someone died.”
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Rosalyn then opened her eyes and looked at Luna apologetically. “Luna, I only knew about it today. Butler Fred told me that you, Joshua, and Jim were investigating the truth behind Granny Lynch’s death, and that was why I called you so urgently this morning and refused to let Joshua tag along. I wanted you to know the truth.”
She meaningfully stared into Luna’s eyes. “Ask Joshua to stop the investigation. I’m the culprit behind it. If he continues to investigate , he’ll discover that Butler Fred and Mickey were the ones that…
“But Butler Fred only did what I told him to. They’re not bad people, and they’ve been working for us for so long. At the very least, they deserve the credit for their efforts.”
Luna squinted at this as she slowly pieced the information.
Butler Fred and Mickey found out that Joshua, Jim, and her were investigating it, so they told Rosalyn in advance and had Rosalyn take all the blame so Joshua , Jim, and her would give up on the investigation.
It was a good plan that Butler Fred had come up with.
First of all, this plan would please Luna. Secondly, he had Rosalyn take the fault of being the culprit and let her plead on their behalf. With that, the reason why Butler Fred and Mickey poison Granny Lynch would once again become an incident that happened because of the feud between the Landry family and the Lynch family. Luna sneered when she thought of all this. She turned her head to look at Rosalyn. “Alright , Mother , I’ll listen to you. Once I return home, I’ll have Joshua stop the investigation.”
Then, she looked at Butler Fred and Mickey ruthlessly.” You two truly are loyal to my mother. Not only did you remember everything my mother said to you while she was drunk, but you even executed it and recorded her words to prove your innocence today. I’m impressed with your thoughtfulness.”
Butler Fred and Mickey’s expressions faltered upon hearing Luna’s contemptuous words.
Butler Fred bit his lip and looked at Luna silently. “Ms. Luna, I’m sure you don’t know this, but there were too many moles in the mansion during that time, so I had the habit of bringing the recording device with me at all times. I didn’t deliberately record Ma’am’s words; it was just a habit I had.”
After that, he turned around to look at Rosalyn. “Ma’am, I’m sure you can testify for me.”
Rosalyn sighed and nodded immediately, “Yes. During that period, everyone was in a state of extreme nervousness. It wasn’t just him, but most of the maids in the house had a recording device with them. I was the one who requested it because I wanted to know who harbored negative intentions against the family back then.”
Lastly, she took a deep look at Luna. “Luna, I’m telling you the truth now because I don’t want you, Butler Fred, and Mickey to have any conflict. On the contrary, I hope all of you can face the common enemy together and manage our house.
“Butler Fred had a long talk with me last night. You’ll be the one to inherit the Landry family and the business. Your brother, Jim, has already started to be unfaithful to the family.”
Luna furrowed her eyebrows tightly by what Rosalyn said. She looked at Rosalyn , then at Butler Fred, and then at Mickey with stone-cold eyes.
Finally, she sneered and leaned on the pillar of the pavilion while looking at the three of them with cold eyes. “Butler Fred, I wonder how you brainwashed my mother that she actually listened to your every word. Jim, unfaithful? Who said that?”
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Rosalyn‘s face scrunched upon hearing Luna‘s words, her back straightening against the wheelchair as she glared at Luna. Her hands balled tightly into fists as she slammed one against the armrest of the wheelchair. “What nonsense are you talking about, Luna? How did Butler Fred brainwash me? I meant everything that I said. Jim always has been unfaithful, but you were never aware of it!”
She reached out her hand at Mickey in anger. “Give it to me. I want to show it to her!”
Mickey sighed and opened the briefcase full of documents that he was holding.
Rosalyn took a deep breath. After she had the documents, she slapped them at the stone table in the pavilion. “Have a good look at it. If Jim is that loyal to us, then he’d treat everything in the family as his own. But what is this?”
Rosalyn sneered and looked at Luna as she sneered, “How long have you known Jim? When he used up the tricks in his sleeve to force other companies into bankruptcy, you never knew him!”
Luna furrowed her eyebrows. She took a deep breath and took the documents to read them. The information in these papers, however, stunned her.
These papers detailed how Jim used the money from their family to build up his career. Outside of the Landry Group, Jim owned more than 10 companies, and some of them were huge companies with famous brands that Luna had heard of before.
Each of the companies started with the money from one account. That account...was the family account.
It was the account that Charles and Rosalyn had specially opened for Jim. That money in the account was the profit from Landry Group.
Luna looked at the documents and stepped back at a pace in disbelief. ‘How...could that be? Jim really started with a different plan from the very beginning? He… never treated us as his real family? If that wasn‘t the case, then what‘s the explanation for these?‘
During these two years, the Landry family faced serious trouble. Under the attacks from Joshua and the disasters caused by Malcolm and Heather , Landry Group had not once but many times been on the brink of bankruptcy.
However, Jim had owned many properties and wealth overseas.
The amount of his net worth had exceeded the entire family, yet not once had Jim proposed to help the family with that money.
Luna bit her lip, and her hand started to tremble. She looked at Rosalyn, and then at Butler Fred. “You… You knew it all along.”
“Yes.” Butler Fred took a deep breath and looked at Luna solemnly. “I was well aware when Young Master Landry did it, but at that time, I truly believed that he was the future heir of the family. That was until you came back.
“I then realized that it is you who should be the one to lead the family in the future.”
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“After all the outrageous things Young Master Landry did, I finally decided to give all of these documents to Ma‘am,” explained Butler Fred.
Luna bit her lip harshly. She looked at Butler Fred as she tried to come up with something to argue with, but she came up empty. In fact, she was made clear.
Before she came back, Butler Fred knew that Jim had his own career outside the Landry Group but never exposed Jim, and it was not because he trusted Jim, but instead...
At that time, Butler Fred knew that Heather could never defeat Jim, and sooner or later, Jim would take charge of the family. Thus, Butler Fred never thought of telling Rosalyn about it and had only hidden those documents.
In that case, when Jim was in charge of the household, he would have leverage on Jim, and Jim would have to keep him and his son working in the mansion. They showed the documents to Rosalyn now and had Rosalyn show them to Luna because at this moment, Butler Fred and Mickey thought that Luna, the biological daughter of Rosalyn and Charles, was confirmed to be the one in charge of the family in the future.
Moreover, more than a year ago, when Luna had just returned to the mansion, Butler Fred and Mickey bore no strong allegiance toward her. The only reason they treated her better was that they knew the feud between the Landry family and the Lynch Family was resolved and she had gotten back together with Joshua, so they thought that Luna would have the advantage while going against Jim.
That was why they were so eager to please her and had Jim removed from the family.
Luna took a deep breath and put down the documents.
She looked at Butler Fred and Mickey. “So, you‘ve been hiding these documents for six years, have you? Butler Fred, you truly are a fan of collecting things. You‘ve hidden the recording to prove my mother was the one who ordered you to kill Granny Lynch for more than twenty years, while the evidence to prove Jim was unfaithful to the family was kept hidden for six years.”
She smirked. “What about me? Do you have any leverage on me right now? How long do you intend to hide it before showing it to another person?”
Butler Fred and Mickey‘s expressions turned ugly upon hearing Luna‘s scathing words.
Rosalyn furrowed her eyebrows, and her eyes were filled with anger. “Luna! What are you talking about? They‘ve been by my side for many years and have been nothing but loyal to the family. You‘re hurting and disappointing them by saying these things!” “Mother, you’re the one hurting and disappointing me now.” Luna took a deep breath and glared at Rosalyn.” You insisted on taking the blame for being the culprit who killed Granny Lynch. You know that once Joshua, Jim, and I find out that they were the ones that killed Granny Lynch, we‘d kick them out of the house and even send them to jail. That‘s why you took the blame, right?”
Rosalyn visibly blanched at this, and she quickly turned away, refusing to look at Luna.
Luna sneered as she looked at Rosalyn‘s side profile and said remotely, “I‘m your daughter. You know that Joshua and I are in love with each other, and you know we have four kids together. You know we can’t be apart from each other.
“When you made that decision , have you ever thought that your daughter‘s marriage may be affected by it? No! You only care about your loyal servants—whether Butler Fred and Mickey can have the chance to stay in the family!
“But he has the evidence!” Rosalyn clenched her fists tightly and looked at Luna angrily. “You heard the recording, didn‘t you?”
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“The reason why I‘m so disappointed is precisely because of the recording.” Luna let out an exhale, fixated her penetrating stare on Rosalyn’s face, and took out the recording device once more.
She pressed the play button, and the voice of a younger Rosalyn rang out from the speaker.
“Tell me, Butler Fred: how can Granny Lynch be so cruel? Is she still unsatisfied with what she did to us and how hard we‘re trying to get by now?
“You‘re right–you‘re absolutely right. If it weren‘t for her, I wouldn‘t be in this situation now. I wouldn‘t even have lost my daughter in the first place!”
Rosalyn‘s voice echoed through the entire garden.
Luna stared impassively at Rosalyn‘s pale face as she played the audio. “You think I‘ve never heard what your voice sounded like when you were younger?”
With that, she took out her phone, located the audio file she wanted, and played it. An equally clear but almost entirely different voice rang out. “Samuel, I don‘t think we should be keeping in touch with each other anymore. You’re in love with Lucy,
whereas my husband is Lucy‘s ex...
“I’m concerned that other people—especially my husband – will misinterpret our relationship and think we were the ones who plotted Lucy‘s murder...”
A man‘s voice replied, “Rosalyn, you‘re too kind for your own good. I can‘t believe that even after the way Charles treated you, you‘re still constantly putting yourself in his shoes. Can‘t you think of yourself for once?”
“No, there‘s no need for that. I love Charles, and he‘s my everything. Even if he‘s never going to get better, I‘m willing to stay by his side for the rest of my life. I‘m content with this...”
The color drained from Rosalyn‘s face upon hearing this.
Not only that, but even Butler Fred and Mickey‘s faces had turned pale, too.
After the audio stopped, Luna picked up the recording device and played the recording once more.
“Tell me, Butler Fred: how can Granny Lynch be so cruel? Is she still unsatisfied with what she did to us and how hard we‘re trying to get by now?
“You‘re right-you‘re absolutely right. If it weren‘t for her, I wouldn‘t be in this situation now. I wouldn‘t even have lost my daughter in the first place!”
Finally, Luna lifted her head to stare at Rosalyn coldly.” Tell me, Mother: which one of these voices is the real you?
Rosalyn was rendered speechless by the steely tone of Luna‘s voice. She furrowed her brows and shot her a helpless glance. “Where did this recording even come from?”
A split second later, she could not help letting out a bitter chuckle as she answered her own question. “I don‘t even know why I asked; of course it was Samuel who gave it to you.”
Rosalyn never thought Samuel would have recorded a conversation between them that happened more than 20 years ago and kept it. She closed her eyes and said, “Luna, I was just trying to—“.
“You were just trying to take responsibility for Butler Fred and Mickey‘s actions so that they‘d be able to continue working for the Landry family.”
All of a sudden, a cold voice rang out from the direction of the house.
Rosalyn opened her eyes and immediately glanced in the direction of the voice.
Joshua, dressed from head to toe in black, ambled gracefully toward them. “However, you failed to consider how much impact this would have on Luna and me.”
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“It‘s not because you don‘t love Luna, but because you naively thought that my relationship with Luna is so strong that even with this family vengeance between us, I‘ll still be able to brainwash both myself and Luna into believing our love can overcome all this.”
He strode over, stood next to Luna, and fixed his dark, penetrating stare on Rosalyn‘s face. “Unfortunately, Mother–in–law, every grievance should be traced back to its source, and there‘s no running away from the truth of my grandmother‘s death.
“We‘ll never blindly believe your words, even if you insist that you were the one behind this murder.”
Rosalyn sighed and glanced first at Luna, then at Joshua.” I thought...I thought that if I tried to make my voice sound young again and record it for Butler Fred, I’d be able to help them escape.”
Everything that happened that day had been a part of Rosalyn‘s scheme.
She had planned this whole show after Butler Fred and Mickey admitted the truth to her that morning.
Even though what they did was wrong, she understood that they had done this for the sake of the Landry family, and since the Landry family had managed to get back on
their feet, she could not possibly be ungrateful for their help.
Even though she had not asked them to poison Granny Lynch, they had indeed committed this crime for her – albeit without her knowledge––and therefore...
Finally, Rosalyn lifted her head to stare intently at Joshua and Luna. “How did you guys find out?”
“I had gone to Father Samuel for help and asked him for a recording of your old voice.” Joshua curled his lips into a smile as he picked up Luna‘s phone.
Joshua was the one who had sent Luna the recording of Samuel and Rosalyn‘s conversation, which she had played on her phone just minutes ago.
The truth was, he had begun to suspect foul play from the moment he heard Butler Fred‘s recording.
In the past, when he investigated Rosalyn‘s involvement in Granny Lynch‘s murder, he found out that Rosalyn had injured her vocal cords about six or seven years ago while experimenting with a new drug on herself and had gone to extreme lengths to regain her voice.
However, even though her efforts were successful , her new voice was entirely different from her old one, and she had no choice but to live with it. This tidbit had stuck with Joshua since then, so the last time he met with Samuel, he inquired about how Rosalyn
had managed to change her voice. At that time, Samuel had nothing but words of admiration toward Rosalyn for managing to accomplish such a miraculous feat. He had given Joshua this recording of their conversation with the intention of allowing Luna to have a keepsake of her mother‘s old voice.
Joshua had kept this recording in his phone since then, but since one too many things had happened, he forgot to give it to Luna.
However, when Butler Fred showed them the alleged recording of Rosalyn from 20 years ago, he could not help but notice that her voice in the recording sounded almost exactly the same as her current one.
This was why Joshua had found the recording that Samuel had given him and sent it to Luna.
This confirmed their suspicions that Rosalyn had planned this all along. However, Luna had been wrong about one thing.
Butler Fred and Mickey had not brainwashed Rosalyn into helping them at all. Instead, Rosalyn had been brainwashed by her own blind compassion into helping them and lying to her own daughter.
“This is all my fault.” Rosalyn let out a bitter chuckle. “I was just trying to help Butler Fred and Mickey, who had been loyal to our family for many years...”
“If they were truly loyal to you...” Joshua returned the phone to Luna and said, sneering, “They wouldn‘t have committed such a heinous crime under false pretenses of helping the Landry family when, in reality, they were just taking revenge on Granny Lynch.”
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The entire garden fell silent upon hearing this.
Rosalyn turned to stare at Joshua, her face pale. “What… What do you mean?”
Luna, too, turned and gaped at Joshua. “Joshua, did you just say that Butler Fred and Mickey ...were taking their revenge on Granny Lynch?”
“Am I wrong?” Joshua stared coldly at Butler Fred and Mickey.
Their expressions had darkened upon hearing this, and Butler Fred narrowed his eyes when faced with Joshua‘s steely, almost suffocating gaze. “What are you trying to say, Mr. Lynch? I don‘t quite follow.”
“Are you trying to play dumb with me?” Joshua leaned against the railing, took out his phone, and played a recording of Lucas‘ voice, which declared, “Sir, I‘ve made a shocking discovery ; Butler Fred...used to be a member of the Lynch family.
TA
“He was an old relative of Grandpa Lynch’s, back when he hadn‘t migrated to Banyan City yet. Grandpa Lynch had once made a promise to them that if they ever wanted to move to Banyan City, he‘d welcome them with open arms.
“Because of this, Butler Fred sought out his help when
trying to move to Banyan City, but Granny Lynch performed a background check on him before this and discovered that he had committed heinous crimes back in his hometown, which included raping an innocent woman and getting her pregnant with his child.
“Therefore, Granny Lynch refused to let Grandpa Lynch take him in, though they still tried to help him by giving him some money so he could survive on his own elsewhere.
“However, he didn‘t manage to flip his luck and subsequently tried multiple times to convince Granny Lynch to take him in, but she turned him down. Finally, he was taken in by a kind family and even became their son-in–law.
“After marrying into the family, Butler Fred envied his new father–in–law‘s job and successfully tricked him into handing his job over. “When his son, Mickey, turned five, he set fire to the house, killing everyone in the family, including his wife. After that, he obtained some money from the life insurance and managed to get a job working as the Landry family‘s butler, where he and Mickey eventually settled down.”
After explaining all this, Lucas sighed and added,” Because of all this, Butler Fred had always held vengeance toward Granny Lynch, and according to the Lynch family history, Butler Fred had attempted multiple times to
assassinate Granny Lynch but failed.
“When Granny Lynch found out about this, she tried to take revenge by sabotaging Butler Fred‘s career, which was why he was chased out of Banyan City and had to marry into another family to survive.”
Lucas‘ account rendered Luna so speechless that her entire body was frozen in shock. She instinctively glanced at Butler Fred and Mickey, then at Joshua.
To be honest...she had found Butler Fred and Mickey strangely familiar from the first time she laid eyes on them, which was why she had warmed up to them so quickly.
After hearing Lucas‘ explanation, however, she suddenly realized that the reason she had found them oddly familiar was because of their resemblance to Joshua.
It turned out that they were both related to the Lynch family as well, which was why they resembled Joshua so much!
“Do you still remember my alleged brother , Michael ?” Joshua curled his lips into a smirk and turned to stare at Luna. Luna froze for a moment, then nodded.
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Of course Luna remembered Michael. He was the one who had attempted to murder Granny Lynch but tried to frame her for it!
“Well, the man standing before you is none other than Mickey Lynch.” Joshua shot Mickey and Butler Fred a disdainful look, then continued, “Butler Fred is one of my elders, and Mickey is about the same age as us.
“According to the Lynch family tradition, there were specific name preferences that they had to adhere to when naming their children. In our case, all the children in my generation which includes me, Michael, and Mickey–were supposed to be given names that started with the letter M.
“However, my mother didn‘t agree with this rigid rule and thus chose to break this tradition, giving me a name that she liked, which was Joshua.”
Luna bit her lip upon hearing this.
Michael and Mickey...
They were both members of the Lynch family after all.
At the thought of this, she turned to glance at Butler Fred and Mickey. “So...the reason you tried to kill Granny Lynch by poisoning her and even allowed my mother to
take the blame for your crime...wasn‘t because of your alleged loyalty to the Landry family after all, but because you had a personal vengeance with Granny Lynch!”
She narrowed her eyes. “I can‘t believe you’d do this to Mother, despite knowing how much she trusted you!”
“Is... Is this true?” Rosalyn pursed her lips, staring at Butler Fred and Mickey with a look of shock and puzzlement.
She did not want to believe this.
She did not want to believe that Butler Fred, the man who had served her for more than 20 years, was a despicable person all along!
She refused to believe that her apprentice Mickey – the only person she had ever taught her knowledge to–had been part of this evil scheme all along!
“Mrs. Landry, would you believe me if I told you that Ms. Luna and Mr. Joshua had been lying all along?” Butler Fred sneered.
Knowing that there was no hiding the truth anymore, he decided there was no point pretending anymore and instead bared his teeth at her sinisterly. “Didn‘t you say that you‘d be willing to help me no matter what I did, so long as I remain loyal to you? Well, what‘s the meaning of this now?
“Even if I had personal reasons for wanting that old hag
dead, why does it matter? You‘re still the beneficiary in all this. I had done all this for the Landry family, so what‘s wrong with that? “Didn‘t you say you‘d stand by my side no matter what? Why aren‘t you sticking to your word now?”
The butler took a small step toward Rosalyn, a glimmer of frenzied malice in his eyes. “Why are you so insistent on finding out the truth? Did you forget that Jim has already deserted the Landry family, and not even your daughter is on your side? She listens to Joshua‘s every word.
“If you don‘t rely on Mickey and me, you‘ll lose everything you‘ve ever known. Don‘t you understand this?”
A glimmer of malice flashed through Butler Fred‘s eyes as he continued, “Rosalyn, haven‘t you always been the best at pretending? When Lucy was still around, you put on such an immaculate act. Despite being jealous of Lucy and hating her guts, you still pretended to respect Charles‘ decision to be with her.
“You never liked Jim, yet you forced yourself to accept him, the son of your worst enemy, and now, you even adopted Lucy‘s second son as your own.
“If you enjoy pretending to be a kind person so much, why aren’t you willing to continue doing it for Mickey and me? Wouldn‘t it be perfect if you continued to take the blame?”
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“Butler Fred, you…”
Rosalyn immediately took a step back at the sight of Butler Fred’s crazed expression. “You... You‘ve gone insane!”
This was not the Butler Fred she knew! He would never talk to her this way!
He had been loyal to her and the Landry family for more than 20 years, and no matter what he did, he would always put the Landry family first before himself or even his son!
How did this happen? “He hasn‘t gone insane; this is who he truly is,” Joshua‘s cold voice rang out. “He‘s done plenty of crazier things than this, like...”
“Like what else?” Butler Fred sneered as he drew a knife out of his pocket and glared at Joshua with bloodshot eyes. “Are you going to continue exposing my past? I know you‘re a powerful man, Joshua Lynch, but I never thought you‘d be able to find out something that happened more than thirty years ago!
“You‘re right; before I came to Banyan City, I had raped a woman and gotten her pregnant with my child, and this
was why I had no choice but to leave and come to Banyan City for a fresh start.
“Your grandfather promised me that as long as I migrated to Banyan City, he‘d be able to offer me a job, but what happened then? Your wretched grandmother looked down on me and refused to let me stay! Not only that, but she even warned all of your other relatives and businesses owned by the Lynch family not to take me in, claiming that I was a bad person! “If it weren‘t for her, I wouldn‘t have had to struggle so hard to survive, and I wouldn‘t have been forced to marry that fat bitch and become everyone‘s laughing stock. “They call me their son–in–law, but the truth is, I was nothing but a slave to them! None of them treated me like an equal, and I was forced to work my ass off every day! Then, one day...”
He sneered as he gazed off into the distance, a hint of delight in his eyes as though he was feeling proud of himself for what he had done. “One day, I successfully escaped from that hell, along with my precious son Mickey. All it took was a lit match to stop those bastards from bullying and humiliating me, but not only that, I even managed to get some money out of this.” Finally, he lifted his head to meet Rosalyn‘s gaze.” Unfortunately, the money couldn‘t last me forever, and when I finally ran out of money, I couldn’t help but remember that wretched Granny Lynch! If it weren‘t for
her, I would‘ve been able to live a happy, stress – free life with the Lynch family. After all, I‘m related to Grandpa Lynch; he would‘ve never mistreated me if I were to go to him. Therefore...”
He narrowed his eyes as he continued staring straight at Rosalyn, and a crazed tone crept into his hoarse voice as he added, “When I found out that their daughter died, I was so happy that I cracked open a good bottle of wine to celebrate!
“It was after finding out about the vengeance between the Lynch and Landry families that I chose to work for the Landry family as a butler because I thought everyone in the Landry family would share my hatred toward Granny Lynch and longed for her to be dead!
“However, to my surprise, all you wanted was to excel over her in the business world, and never once did you ever think of taking her life! Since you weren‘t willing to do so, I had no choice but to push you in the right direction.
“After all, no one in this world knows about my vengeance with the Lynch family. No one knows my real name, and all they know is that I‘m the Landry family butler, so no matter what I did, people would think that you and Charles were behind it!”
The color drained from Rosalyn‘s face upon hearing this. She stared dazedly at the man before her, feeling as though she was stuck in a dream.
She had known Butler Fred for almost 30 years; he had started working for them almost the same time she married into the Landry family. During this time, Butler Fred had been nothing but loyal to her and helped her manage everything. Thus, she had always trusted him with all her heart, so much so that she was even willing to help him take the fall for murdering Granny Lynch.