Chapter 1849


    Despair reflected in Harvey’s eyes.


    Toph looked at him, feeling an inexplicable sense of sadness. Harvey was thin as if a gust of wind


    could blow him away. Hisplexion was ghostly pale, a shade of abnormal pallor.


    Fate seemed relentless. It was like living in hell for being born into this family.


    “I don’t know why they treat me like this,” Harvey self-mockingly smiled. “Since I was little, my father


    never liked me. In my memory, he never smiled at me or even held me.


    “And my mother, she’s sometimes good to me, sometimes bad. Sometimes she indulges me, other


    times she hits me even harder than my sister…


    “And I found out about Jodie’s secret ten years ago.”


    “Her secret?” Toph’s heart lurched. He had overheard Chris and Lena murmuring that Jodie had no


    blood rtion to Delh.


    “Yes.” Harvey picked up a pen, casually sketching on paper. A few lines twisted into distorted figures


    like a scene from a chilling horror film.


    Toph could tell that the twisted face was Jodie, holding a syringe, ready to inject herself.


    “This is wrong,” Toph said in a low voice. “The one she injects is you!”


    “It’s herself.” Harvey’s words dropped like stones into a calmke.


    Toph paused, hearing him continue. “That’s the secret I discovered… I found out she often injected


    herself with something. I was young then, naive about drugs. I thought she was doing something wrong


    and rushed to tell my mother. But my mother pped me, shut me up, and forbade me from saying


    anything.


    “Especially…” Harvey looked up with a wry smile. “I can’t let my father know.”


    Toph was bewildered. “Why?”Books Chapters Are Daily Updated Join & Stay Updated For All Books


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    “Because Jodie has Type I diabetes. No one in our family has this illness except her. In Maisie’s family,


    everyone else except for her has this disease!”


    Toph clenched his fists.


    So that was what Chris and Lena had been murmuring about… Jodie wasn’t a Newhouse. The true


    Newhouses heiress was probably Maisie!


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    “She treats you like that and ims you’re mentally ill openly because you discovered this secret?”


    “Yeah.” Harvey continued sketching. “Who would believe a lunatic’s words? But what’s most despairing


    in this family isn’t her. It’s my parents.


    “I think… Would my parents love me more if I could bring Maisie back?”


    Toph didn’t say anything, just sympathetically patted his back.


    Harvey oversimplified things. Dealing with Wilfred or Delh wasn’t as easy as he thought, and the


    secrets in this family were far more numerous than he had seen.


    “I think you shouldn’t dwell on this.” Toph looked at him. “You need to protect yourself and get out of


    this ce!”


    “Get away?”


    “Yeah. What’s here to hold onto? If you’re stuck, I’ll find a way!”


    A glimmer of hope shed in Harvey’s eyes, but that light dissipated quickly. What remained in his eyes


    was the same darkness as before.