Chapter 1801


    In Chanaea, Susanne stared at her ringing phone and the foreign number on its screen.


    After some contemtion, she eventually answered the call. “Hello. Who is this?”


    Vinson felt pained by how mncholic Susanne sounded over the phone.


    “Mom, it’s me!”


    Susanne instantly jumped to her feet when she recognized her son’s voice.


    “Vinson? Is that you?” Agitatedly, she rambled, “Am I dreaming? Are you really calling me right now?!”


    She could hardly believe that her son, who had been missing for such a long time, would call her out of


    the blue.


    Vinson replied, “It’s me, Mom. You’re not dreaming!”


    After hearing his confirmation, Susanne hurriedly asked about Arielle, “What about Sannie? How is


    she? Is she okay?”


    Arielle and Vinson had been on the same cruise ship, and Susanne’s concern only grew with the


    shocking number of casualties from the shipwreck.


    “Mom, she’s okay too. We’ll be back in two days.” As he reassured his mother, Vinson suddenly


    recalled an earlier conversation with Arielle and asked, “Mom, do I have a brother?”


    Susanne was shell-shocked.


    How did he find out?


    She sputtered, “W-Why are you asking about this?”


    Her tone was proof enough that Arielle’s suspicions were correct. Vinson immediately knew the man


    they were discussing was likely his brother.


    Vinson shared his and Arielle’s hypothesis with his mother. “He probably orchestrated the idents


    that had befallen Arielle and me.”


    Though he could not see it, Susanne shook her head and muttered, “What? That’s impossible! Why


    would he harm you?”


    She simply could not believe that child would harm Vinson. After all, the child’s biological mother was a


    proud woman, and it seemed unimaginable that she would raise a cold-blooded mastermind.


    “Vinson, could you be mistaken? Your older brother would never harm you.” Susanne stubbornly


    refused to ept that possibility.


    Meanwhile, Vinson’s gaze darkened in response.


    “Mom, is he really my older brother?”


    Susanne realized it was impossible to hide the man’s true parentage now that he had appeared. s,


    she could only confess the truth.


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    “He’s your older brother from a different mother.” She continued hastily, “But I don’t think he would ever


    harm you. His mother is a proud woman, and she would never raise a son like that. Vinson, are you


    sure you haven’t misunderstood the situation?”


    Vinson fired back, “Are you sure you haven’t misunderstood the situation?”


    Susanne froze in surprise.


    He must have evidence if he’s so sure about this. Perhaps I’m the one struggling to ept the truth.


    Suddenly, Vinson piped up, “Mom, I borrowed this phone from someone else. I‘ll call you again once I


    get a new phone.”


    Susanne mumbled an acknowledgment and hung up. Then, she took out the Nightshires’ family photo


    from a drawer and gazed at Vinson’s father.


    As she stared at the photograph, she mumbled, “I offered to raise the child as ours back then, but she


    refused. I never imagined she would raise her son into a monster who would harm Vinson. What


    should I do?”


    In truth, Susanne had been the innocent party in the rtionship. She and Vinson‘s father were in an


    arranged marriage, and she had no idea that he already had a girlfriend, let alone a child.


    They had fallen deeply in love with each other by the time she learned about his old me. She had


    even given birth to Vinson just over a month before the revtion. Susanne had told him to make a


    choice, promising to respect his decision even if he left her.


    Atst, he chose to be with her andpensated his old me handsomely. Susanne had suggested


    raising the woman’s child as their own, thinking it would improve his ex’s marriage options in the future,


    but she had disagreed.


    Now, l can’t allow her son to harm my son!