Chapter 491

“I have something urgent to deal with. I’ll call you back later! Bye!” Corbin seemed upset. After hanging

up the phone, he looked at Maurice and asked, “Boss, what should we do now?”

“Damn it!” Maurice was furious!

The Stone family had the nerve to play trick on him!

He was so furious that he nearly crushed the phone in his hand.

“Boss, since the matter is settled, shouldn’t we get Eliana from Gerald first?” Corbin suggested.

Maurice tried to hold back his anger and worries about Eliana. He said to Corbin, “Calm down. We

must first solve the current problems. Let’s deal with everything before Eliana hears this news…”

If Maurice’s troubles were almost solved, Eliana’s were only just beginning.

Eliana and Lucia followed Gerald to his villa.

Although Gerald and Maurice were from the same family, they were very different in almost everything.

Even their tastes for interior design were very different.

Maurice’s villa was discreet but showed wealth and status. It had no fancy decorations. Instead,

anyone who entered Maurice’s villa appreciated the sober style and noble taste. On the contrary,

Gerald’s villa was extremely luxurious. It seemed like he wanted anyone who came to his house to see

how rich he was! In fact, far from being charming, Gerald’s villa looked like an upstart’s house with

mediocre taste.

As they walked into the villa, Lucia sighed. “It’s hard to believe that Gerald and Mr. Moran are from the

same family. They have very different tastes.”

The only thing that didn’t match the luxurious decorating style of Gerald’s villa was an oil painting

hanging on the wall in the living room.

Eliana’s attention was attracted by the painting and she couldn’t help staring at it for a while.

This painting looked familiar to her. Why did it look like her mother’s work?

As this thought crossed her mind, Eliana walked over and stood closer to the painting.

Lucia also noticed the oil painting and stared at it with a frown. “This painting looks very familiar to me. I

think I once saw it at an auction. The painter was very mysterious. No one know who it is, or whether it

is a man or a woman.”

Eliana didn’t comment what Lucia said. She seemed to be engrossed in the canvas.

Seeing that Eliana was so absorbed by the painting, Lucia suddenly thought of something. She looked

at Eliana and said seriously, “Eliana, you know who painted this canvas, right? That’s why you

suddenly stopped in front of it.”

However, Eliana didn’t answer and looked at the painting carefully. Then, at the lower right corner of

the canvas, she saw the familiar signature. There was also a mark on the canvas that was accidentally

made by her when she was a child.

She had guessed right. This canvas had been painted by her mother!

But why was her mother’s work in Gerald’s house?

“What’s wrong, Miss Pierce? Do you like this painting?”

Gerald appeared out of nowhere and asked.

“Mr. Moran, this canvas was painted by my mother. May I ask you how you acquired it?”

Eliana stared intently at Gerald, waiting for his answer. She wanted to know the truth.

At this moment, a look of nostalgia appeared on Gerald’s face. He sighed and said, “I specifically

sought out this painting after the Pierce family went bankrupt. In fact, I had known your mother, Ingrid,

when we were young. We were good friends back then. We even studied in the same high school.

Alas, we each went our separate ways later…”

Gerald then went on to tell Eliana a lot of things about him and Ingrid.

“I had never thought that you knew my mother, let alone that you were old friends.”

Eliana made it seem as if she trusted Gerald now. However, she was still very vigilant inside.

Gerald was telling anecdotes about him and Ingrid with great enthusiasm. However, Eliana had never

heard her mother mention Gerald.

It didn’t make sense.

Eliana and her mother were very close and talked about everything. In fact, Ingrid wasn’t the kind of

person who wouldn’t talk about her friends, let alone her best friends. Why then had she never talked

about Gerald?

“Since you and my mother were so familiar with each other, what do you know about my father’s

suicide and the bankruptcy of my family? My… Did my mother have any enemy?”

Eliana mentioned these painful events on purpose. She was trying to sound out Gerald.

She still remembered what Asher had told her a long time ago.

He said that it was all her mother’s fault that the Pierce family went bankruptcy!

Because of that, Eliana had always suspected that her mother had some enemies at that time, and that

they were the ones who destroyed the Pierce Group, probably for revenge.

Now Gerald was telling her that he was an old friend of her mother’s. Eliana knew Gerald’s reputation,

and she found it unlikely that her mother could have had someone like him as a friend. Something was

wrong.

When Gerald heard Eliana’s question, his face suddenly changed.