Chapter 224


    Elspeth and Arthur rendezvoused at the office in Winthrop Group.


    After the move Jordan pulled the other day, Callum didn’t feel safe letting Elspeth meet up with people


    anywhere else. The safest ce would be thepany.


    It wasn’t long before Arthur opened the door and came striding into the room.


    “What is this, Callum? What bullsh*t are you and Elspeth up to this time?” He scoffed and plopped on a


    chair, his eyes fixed on her.


    “Arthur, I have something to tell you about your birth parents’ death.”


    Before she could say anything more, Arthur’s face fell and he warned, “Callum, I don’t mind talking if


    you don’t bring up this sh*t.”


    “You don’t still think that your father is the murderer of your family, do you? Arthur, you wouldn’t have


    held onto your grudge against Mr. Winthrop who has raised you for decades if your brain functions


    even a bit!”


    Elspeth didn’t hold back at all. She had nothing to say to Arthur.


    Arthur let out a soft chuckle at first before hisugh erupted into a full-blown chortle. “What do you


    know, Elspeth? It wasn’t your parents who died, and you weren’t the one who was raised being


    preferred over someone else. What right do you have to stand on the moral high ground and criticize


    me? Who do you think you are?”


    Seeing himughing maniacally, Elspeth took a nce at the restroom at the side.


    Someone walked out right then and called out, “Arthur!”


    It was Arthur’s birth father, Yoel Blue.


    Arthur was taken aback as he looked at this familiar yet unfamiliar man in front of him, and he suddenly


    didn’t know what to say.


    Yoel and Arthur were way too alike!


    Yoel was what Arthur would look like in twenty years.


    Arthur was stunned and with a doubtful heart, he gingerly asked, “Are you my… father?”


    When Yoel heard thatst word, he couldn’t hold back his emotions anymore and swiftly burst into


    tears. “Arthur! It’s me, your father!”


    Suddenly, Arthur nced at Elspeth and immediately grew cautious.


    “Bullsh*t! Elspeth must have found a man who looks somewhat simr to me and lied about him being


    my father. You are not my father. My father died twenty years ago!”


    No one would be able to ept having a person who was supposed to have died twenty years ago


    suddenly appear in front of them.


    Seeing Arthur losing his calm, Elspeth spoke in a calmer voice. “No matter if you believe it or not, this


    man is your father. I have a copy of your DNA certificate here. If you don’t believe it, you can run the


    test again yourself. You’ll know whether he is your father or not.”


    Arthur took a deep breath and looked at the man in front of him, his eyes were a mix of both warmth


    and indifference. “Why are you back now of all times?”


    Yoel took a step forward to hold Arthur’s hand, but the younger man avoided him. Yoelmented,


    “Arthur, I must have been possessed in the past. Your mother died in the car ident and I was


    seriously injured. As ast resort, I left you behind because I thought you could live a good life with the


    Winthrops. I didn’t think—”


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    “You didn’t think I would fall apart with the Winthrops? And you came back because you can’t ept


    how things have turned out, right?”


    An unhesitant Arthur exposed Yoel when he guessed what the man was about to say.


    Yoel was slightly stunned as he nodded. “Arthur, our car ident back then was not caused by Mr.


    Winthrop. It was because I was running away from my debts. Mr. Winthrop had no choice but to drive


    and follow us…”


    Yoel remembered that the ident happened in the afternoon. Due to his owing a huge sum of money,


    he had no choice but to abscond with his family in a fit of desperation. Unexpectedly, he met Theodore


    on the road.


    Left with no other way, he drove away quickly. However, he forgot that this section of the road was a


    high-risk section and he hit a stone at the side. As a result, he was seriously injured and fell into a


    coma while his wife died on the spot. The only person who came out of the ident unscathed was the


    child his wife tightly protected in her arms.


    Just thinking about this made Yoel feel sorry for both Arthur and Theodore.


    “So what? That still makes him the one who pushed you and my mother to death.”


    “Arthur!” Yoel’s voice immediately turned stern when he heard those words. “You must be grateful.


    Theodore has raised you for so many years. Even giving you a bite of food is benevolent of him. He


    even raised you so well. How can you be so heartless?!”


    Arthur sneered at that. “Do you think I will forgive them just because of what you said? How ridiculous. I


    don’t hate them only because they killed you and my mother. I have been wronged since I was a child. I


    will never forget what I lost. I will have everything that is rightfully mine!”


    That put a frown on Elspeth’s face. “Wronged? What do you mean?”


    Arthur realized that he had said too much. His eyes were slightly red, but he still calmed down. “No


    matter what you say, I won’t forgive the Winthrops.”


    He nced back at Yoel with hatred and disappointment in his eyes. “And you… I will never, ever


    forgive you!”


    After finishing speaking, he mmed the door and left.


    Yoel copsed to the ground all of a sudden. “It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault that things have turned out


    this way…”


    Elspeth quickly helped him up when she saw this.


    “Mr. Blue, don’t think too much about it. I told you that Arthur’s thoughts have been somewhat distorted


    since he was a child. Understandably, you can’t persuade him.”


    Yoel let out a deep sigh. “I’ll talk to him again. I’m his biological father, after all. I’m sure he will listen to


    me, even if it’s only a little.”


    After speaking, he also went out, leaving only Elspeth and Callum to look at each other with exhaustion


    in their gazes.


    “Callum, why do you think Arthur turned out this way?”


    Callum’s voice was as calm as ake. “Comparison is unavoidable in a wealthy family like the


    Winthrops. I was also like this when I was a child.”


    She immediately became interested when she heard his words. “You mean… you felt sad because you


    lost to someone else when you were younger?”


    He began to reminisce as he thought of the past. “When I was young, there were five children in my


    family, and I was the best at studying. ke and Max would stick to me all the time. Edmund used to


    tear up my test papers and say that I got zero marks every time after my school exams. And because


    of that, I would be punished by not being given dinner.”


    Elspeth identally let augh slip as soon as she heard that. “Edmund grew up evil, huh?”


    Callum shot her a glum look. “You’re making fun of me,” heined.


    “Ahem! My apologies. Please continue. I’ll listen well and I promise I won’tugh. Not if I can hold it in.”


    “And after 12.00AM when everyone in the family had gone to bed, Arthur would sneak over to bring me


    food in case I was hungry.”


    Elspeth rubbed her chin. “A young Arthur seems kind.”


    “But Arthur was actually the one who tore up my test papers.”


    “And yet he brought you food at night?” Elspeth eximed.