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Darnell didn’t want to correct her address and simply said, “Go back if you’re enough of the fuss.”
Elaine immediately ran away.
The ancestral hall was immediately prevailed by silence.
Darnell looked towards Dolores and addressed in a low voice, “Aunt.”
Dolores, who had been closing her eyes, slowly opened her eyes. Her voice was a bit shaky as she said, “Is what
you instructed Vincent to tell me true.”
“They’re all true.”
Dolores said after a while of silence, “I just have one condition: don’t tell Clarence about the truth.”
“He will find it even though I don’t tell now. Moreover, the reason why those people led Clarence to Riverside is to
let him find the truth.”
“We should postpone it. The later, the better.”
Darnell said, “Vincent has come back to City N to investigate this matter. I guess we will get some news in several
days.”
Dolores sighed emotionally, “What can we do even if we find out who the persons behind this are. It indeed has
happened and we can’t change it.”
“Aunt, please rest assured. I will keep an eye on him and I will stop him if he wants to take any dangerous actions.”
“The troubles in City N and Riverside are all caused by the pushiness and the choice I made before. I’m sorry to the
James family. And…”
“Aunt, you don’t have to blame yourself. Things would not have progressed to what they are today if he didn’t covet
the powers of the James family and deceive you.”
Clarence father, Dempsey Conrad, went to Riverside for business negotiations thirty years ago and got to know
Dolores accidentally. Then he pursued Dolores with various means. At that time, Dolores surnamed James. She had
been living in the James family and had never left Riverside because of those unwritten rules. Therefore, she
developed a keen interest in the handsome man from City N.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAs time passed, many of the James gradually felt that inexplicable rule unacceptable and wanted to go out of
Riverside to have a look at other places.
After getting to know Dempsey, who told her the world outside was so wonderful, Dolores gradually yearned for
leaving Riverside as she had been constrained in the city for too long.
At that time, Dempsey indeed did many touching things to please her.
Being moved, Dolores gradually consolidated her belief in leaving Riverside and following him to City N.
It was not only for freedom but also for love.
But she didn’t expect that Dempsey had a wife and a son in City N. When she followed him to City N with
excitement, Dempsey tried all means to let her persuade her father to expand his businesses in Riverside to City N,
which would help to improve his forces and interpersonal relationships at the same time.
Having no choice, Dolores could only tell him that she had cut the relationship with the James family when she left
Riverside.
And that the James family would not recognize her as a member of the family and would not expand its businesses
to City N.
Only until then did Dempsey realize that the James family didn’t allow its members to leave Riverside. His
expression immediately turned hideous and he didn’t visit Dolores for several days consecutively.
Dolores couldn’t figure it out. When she learned she was pregnant, she wished so much she could immediately tell
him about this good news and went to the Conrad Group to find him after leaving the hospital.
In the company, she saw Joanna and Justin who was only several years old at that time.
Dolores felt as if being struck by lightning and froze on the spot with a pregnancy examination report in her hand.
Associating with Dempsey’s indifference in recent days, she immediately figured out what was going on.
Dempsey’s ambition was not satisfied although he was quite successful in City N. Even though the Perez family was
quite powerful, it was still insignificant comparing to the James family.
Dempsey had made a plan when he first approached Dolores. He thought he could let Dolores follow him to City N
first, and since Dolores was the only daughter in the family and her father spoiled her a lot, his father would not let
her live in City N alone.
In that case, as long as the James expanded its business to City N, everything would be under his control.
He just needed to infiltrate into the family’s forces slowly and one day even the Riverside would be under his
control.
As long as his plan came to success, he would get rid of the Perez family at any time.
Never had he expected that the James family would have that rule.
His efforts in the past months were all in vain.
He bore some hatred towards Dolores at that time, complaining why she didn’t tell him in advance.
After figuring everything out, Dolores didn’t ask him for any explanations. She returned to the house, packed her
things and left.
Even though she knew it was a fraud, she couldn’t go back.
She hesitated for a long while and finally decided to deliver the child in her belly.
She could by no means return to the James family and the child was the only belief that encouraged her to live.
Dolores James changed her surname and went to a place where she thought no one would be able to find her.
Dolores, a rich lady who had never worried about money and livelihood, immediately became a single mother who
lost all supports from her family and could only make a living by herself. She gritted her teeth to go through a long,
hard time.
Although life was bitter, the child grew up day by day.
They lived in that place for several days.
Until one day Dempsey appeared in that broken alley in a business suit…
It had been many years and Dempsey still showed no regret on that matter. It was just that he seemed to have
grown old as some of his hair was white.
He told Dolores that his son’s legs were broken in a car accident and he was paralyzed and could only sit in a
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmwheelchair for the rest of his life. Therefore, Justin couldn’t shoulder the responsibility of taking charge of the
Conrad Group.
He persuaded with a carrot-and-stick approach, saying that he would cultivate the child to be the heir of the Conrad
Group after taking him back to the family. If Dolores refused it, he would have another illegitimate child. However,
in case that other Conrads would find the child and make use of his identity, he would kill the child himself.
Dolores was sleepless for several nights. Looking at the shabby house, she covered her face and burst into crying.
She didn’t know why things would progress to what they were now. Her child was supposed to grow up as an apple
of many people’s eyes; however, he suffered a lot as he had to live with her in this place.
Dolores agreed to Dempsey’s proposal and sent Clarence back to the Conrad family. Then she left City N without
hesitation, just like how she left Riverside before.
Dempsey did cultivate the child as the future heir of the Conrad family as he had promised Dolores. However, he
was afraid of the forces in Riverside at the same time, feeling that the James family would recognize the child one
day.
This was the reason why he constantly wanted to control Clarence and why he had some scruples about him.
But in the end, he got nothing. Instead, he was paralyzed all over.
Dolores pulled herself out of her memory and looked at the ancestors’ tablets in front of her.
Right at this moment, there came some footsteps from the door.
Darnell said, “Aunt, I have to go.”
Darnell walked to the door of the ancestral hall and looked at the person, but he didn’t say anything in the end and
left in strides.
Standing at the door of the ancestral hall, Clarence fixed his eyes on Dolores’ back and only walked into the hall
several minutes later. He then kneeled behind Dolores.
Hearing the sounds, Dolores turned around and said in a low voice, “You don’t have to kneel.”
Clarence said blandly without any expressional change, “I’m not kneeling before them.”
He added, “Since you’re kneeling before them, I can’t just stand here.”