Chapter 867

Chapter 867

Corinne’s response took Lucas aback, but his eyes were then filled with admiration for his long -lost

sister. “The difference between her and Anya is quite stark. This is what my sister should be like an

independent woman who’s not afraid to love and let go at the same time! Anya only knows how to cry

and act like a damsel in distress. I must be blind in the past to not see what a drama queen she was.’

He took a deep breath before asking, “Corinne, did you come to work for me because you wanted to

find out why Mom left our home with you?”

“Yup, that’s right,” admitted Corinne. There was no reason to hide it as everything had come to this

point.

Lucas sighed. “You don’t need to do that anymore. I’ll tell you whatever you want to know.”

Corinne narrowed her eyes and said mockingly, “You’ll tell me? Hah! You’re just going to tell me Mom

made a mistake and was caught in bed with another man, and that’s why she was kicked out of the

house.”

Lucas frowned. “I didn’t want to believe that either, Corinne, but…I did see Mom coming out of a hotel

with another man.”

Corinne scoffed. “What about it? That’s not proof enough. I myself have come out of many hotels with

many different men. Does that mean I slept with all of them?”

Lucas’ face darkened. “Don’t speak nonsense like that!”

Corinne rolled her eyes. “No matter what happened back then, I’ll always believe my mother isn’t that

kind of woman!”

Lucas was glad to see Corinne defending their mother vehemently. He nodded and said, “I believe

Mom isn’t that kind of woman too. That’s why I’ve asked my men to look into the matter all these years.

Though, we haven’t found anything that proves otherwise.”

Corinne was disappointed in him. “That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything! It doesn’t take a rocket

genius to figure out who has benefited the most from Mom getting kicked out of the house! That person

is the biggest suspect…

“And you! You welcomed the thief into the house and treated her like your mother!”

Instead of being angry, Lucas just felt really misunderstood. He had never seen Phoebe as his mother.

He only called her ‘Aunt Phoebe’ out of respect for Anya, and he rarely talked to her unless it was

necessary.

After Emily and Corinne left the house, a pregnant Phoebe came to force Maxwell to marry her. The

only reason Cedric and Beatrice would allow her to marry into the family was because she carried the

bloodline of the Rivera family.

Thus, it stood to reason Lucas suspected Phoebe was the culprit behind Emily getting kicked out of the

house. However, he was just a kid then, so he faced one problem after another when he tried to look

into the matter.

Later, when he took over the helm from Maxwell and got the power he needed, the first thing he did

was to arrange for his men to look into his mother’s ‘affair’ so he could clear up her name. Alas, they

could not find conclusive evidence pointing to what Phoebe had done.

The reason he told Corinne he did not find anything and asked her not to look into the matter anymore

was because he did not want her to go through all that effort to only come up empty- handed, and not

because he thought their mother was promiscuous.

He also did not want Corinne to end up just like him-stuck in the past and feeling guilty over his inability

to protect both Emily and Corinne. It was just too tiring to live that way. Lucas did not explain himself to

Corinne. He simply sighed and asked, “Where did you Mom go after you two left the family? Why didn’t

you two live together?”

Corinne frowned as a multitude of emotions welled up in her heart. “I don’t know what happened either.

All my memories of that time are a blur to me. I only know Mom entrusted me to the Carews, and she

disappeared after that.”