Contract Marriage: Abusive Love with Mr.CEO-Chapter 457 - 241: Hoping She Will Return to His Side (2)
Rebecca was shocked, "You’re saying it was my dad who took my mother away? But didn’t they find a burnt body?"
Mrs. Geoffrey nodded, "A body was found, but it was actually only one, Stephen Geoffrey’s... At that time, the police took your father’s money, and the investigation into the accident was just perfunctory. It was reported that there were two people in the car, so two fatalities were listed."
So it turned out her mother was saved by his father.
Recalling the past, Mrs. Geoffrey still felt some pain, "Becca, I know Stephen Geoffrey betrayed the marriage and he doesn’t deserve sympathy, but he was the love of my life and the father of my two children. Despite the countless ways I hate and resent him, I never wished for this outcome. And your father, when he repented at the last moment, if only he had extended a helping hand to Stephen, he might have survived like Vivian Lindsey, but he didn’t, he just watched as Stephen waited to die in the car..."
Pain brought tears to Mrs. Geoffrey’s eyes, and her voice gradually became choked.
"How could this be..." Becca shook her head in disbelief.
Mrs. Geoffrey took a deep breath to compose herself and said, "Of course, maybe at the time the car was leaking oil and the time was tight, so he could only save one person, but I still can’t accept the cruelty of your father saving Vivian and leaving Stephen to die..."
Becca found it hard to accept such a fact, "Auntie, is there evidence for this matter?"
Mrs. Geoffrey choked and said, "Your father personally admitted it to Howard once out of guilt..."
Becca’s beautiful face instantly turned pale. She couldn’t imagine that behind that car accident, so many secrets were hidden...
"Do you now know why Howard was so vengeful against your father?"
Becca fell into a state of disbelief, her expression frozen.
"Howard always knew your mother wasn’t dead, but no one could find her whereabouts. According to your father, she stayed in the hospital for a few days, but one day when he went to see her again, she had already disappeared, and afterward, no one knew her whereabouts... but those are stories for another time."
Seeing Becca remain silent, Mrs. Geoffrey continued, "Nearly twenty years later, Howard sought out your father, and when your father realized Howard wouldn’t spare him, in order to protect you, he married you off to Howard..."
Becca was at a loss, "I don’t understand..." Actually, her dad had explained this reason in a letter he left for her, but she still couldn’t fully comprehend it.
Mrs. Geoffrey sneered, "Of course you don’t understand, because your father was so shrewd... Your father knew that if Howard dealt with him, you would be left with no support, and more critically, Howard wouldn’t spare you either... Your father’s move was called ’finding life in death’, on the surface pushing you into the fire pit, but in reality to protect you... At that time, Christine was seriously ill, and Howard agreed with your father to maintain a two-year marriage with you in order to save her. Your father’s hope was that over those two years, you and Howard would develop feelings for each other, so after he died, Howard might spare you... And it turned out your father’s decision was right, during those two years, Howard really developed feelings for you!"
Mrs. Geoffrey’s words left Becca slightly dazed.
She remembered during their last conversation in the hospital, he had shared with her his feelings about their two-year marriage, but he never told her these things... She never imagined that his compassion for her shouldn’t have existed in his world.
"Becca, do you know, Howard once considered sparing your father for your sake..."
What?
Becca’s eyes widened in shock.
"In fact, when Howard sought revenge on your father, I never knew, he just told me he would stay in T City for two years. Later, I accidentally found out from the news that Howard got married, and that’s when I realized he stayed in T City for a woman... but at that time I didn’t know he married Alexander Quentin’s daughter, because Howard protected your identity well, and the news didn’t report anything, and when I asked him about the marriage, he only gave me perfunctory answers, and at that time I had my own matters to deal with and didn’t really bother about Howard’s business." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Becca dumbly asked, "The things you had to do..."
Mrs. Geoffrey nodded, "You’re correct, at that time, I was always looking for Alexander Quentin. You might not know, but Howard never wanted me involved in his revenge, and he wouldn’t allow me to investigate Alexander Quentin, so at that time, I didn’t know that Howard had already found Alexander Quentin and even married his daughter... When Howard wasn’t in T City, I secretly investigated Alexander’s whereabouts and eventually learned that Alexander was living comfortably in T City, and I also found out that he had a daughter who was married, but I never imagined that the person who married her was Howard... I admit that revenge had consumed my entire life at that time, so for Stephen’s death, I wanted your father to pay with his life, so I called him and threatened him!"
"What call?"
Mrs. Geoffrey confessed straightforwardly, "I revealed my identity to him and demanded that he pay for Stephen’s death with his life."
"You were threatening my dad?"
"Your father might have also been under Howard’s threat, but Howard never truly intended to drive your father to the end of the road. After all, during those two years, he had many opportunities to make your father suffer unbearably, but he never actually inflicted any real harm on your father... It was just such a coincidence. After I knew that Alexander had a daughter, I threatened him and told him, ’If he doesn’t pay with his life, then his daughter will.’ I only intended to intimidate him, but who would have thought, the next day after my threat, news came that he had committed suicide..."
The matter that Mrs. Geoffrey couldn’t understand was actually something very easy to comprehend now.
Father’s life at that time was tied to Christine Quinn, and Howard couldn’t really harm him, so father actually wasn’t too worried about himself, the only person father worried about was her.
Father couldn’t figure out Howard’s heart at all, and when he received the call from Mrs. Geoffrey, he was convinced that she and Howard were in cahoots. He thought that even if she could be with Howard, she couldn’t pass Mrs. Geoffrey’s hurdle, and knowing Howard’s good relationship with Mrs. Geoffrey, father thought Howard would give her up for Mrs. Geoffrey... To appease Mrs. Geoffrey, the only way father could think of was to pay with his life as she demanded, because only then could he truly eliminate the hatred in the hearts of the Geoffrey mother and son.
