Chapter 141

Next to Lymington International Hotel was a hospital. Winnie stood in the ward when suddenly her fingers were tightly grasped, her uncle's nails leaving blood marks on her skin.

Startled, Winnie turned her head to see her uncle waking up.

Elliott looked at her with distress and asked frantically, "Winnie, why did you marry Lawrence? He is our enemy! How could you marry him? Cameron and Irene's spirits will never find peace. You have disappointed me!"

He coughed and struggled to sit up, his voice filled with bitterness and irony.

Winnie froze, as if she couldn't understand. Her head buzzed, and she looked blankly at her uncle's flushed eyes and anguished face.

Winnie denied, "Uncle, what are you talking about? Lawrence, he is not Lawrence."

She held his hand, trying to comfort him.

"Have you mistaken someone else? Lawrence has scars on his face, I've seen it with my own eyes..."

Elliott forcefully shook off her hand, anger contorting his face into a grimace. He turned abruptly and opened his bag, taking out a shattered mask. He forcefully shoved it into Winnie's hand.

"Why do I know him? Because of this silver mask! Recognize it? It's the one he had just been wearing on his face!"

Winnie's eyes widened when she saw the sharp half of the mask.

Elliott spoke with hatred, "Winnie, do you know, when Cameron and Irene died in that car, I rushed over to save them. I saw that half of the mask pierced into Cameron's heart. The last words Cameron said were 'Lawrence.' Ten years ago, he was only twenty years old when he hired someone to kill. I didn't know there was a problem with that car. I wanted to pull Cameron and Irene out, but the car exploded. My leg, my face, my body..."

Elliott held his left cheek in agony, his finger trembling. The pain from his amputated right leg also intensified, feeling sharp. It made it hard for him to breathe.

Winnie saw him choking and hurriedly pinched his pressure point to soothe him. She shook her head in confusion, "It's impossible, Lawrence is not Lawrence. Besides, isn't the Anderson family related to Cameron and Irene's cause of death? How could it be Lawrence?"

"That was a case of commercial murder!" Elliott admonished her. "Ten years ago, Imperial Group was a mess. Lawrence was ambitious. Otherwise, how do you think he achieved the status of a top global company with Imperial Financial Group in just ten years? Don't believe me? I'll take you to see his face!"

Elliott got excited and tried to get off the hospital bed, gripping Winnie's hand. But he only had one leg and immediately fell to the ground.

Winnie's eyes flashed with sympathy, her heart heavy.

Sinking down, she dared not resist. "Uncle, please calm down. I will go," she said.

Her scalp was numb, and she could hardly think. She was brought onto the plane to Ystad by Elliott, and she couldn't bring herself to believe it.

However, when she arrived at Ystad Hospital with Elliott and quietly stood by Darcy's room window from a distance, Winnie's trust shattered into pieces.

In Darcy's room, there was a tall man beside Ray. He was still wearing the black suit and familiar narrow tie. When Winnie's trembling eyes looked up and saw his extraordinarily handsome face, she couldn't speak anymore.

It was him, Lawrence. And it was also him, Lawrence...

Lawrence was too handsome, and Winnie couldn't possibly be mistaken.

The scar on Lawrence's face that she saw at the Hot Spring Resort was completely gone.

So, at that time, was he deliberately using a fake identity to deceive her? He went to great lengths to hide it from her!

Winnie suddenly felt like a fool.

She had never associated him with the most esteemed Mr. Rodriguez of the Rodriguez family in Lymington!

With immeasurable power that instilled fear in people's hearts, he controlled the economic lifeline of Lymington.

No wonder he could make everyone keep her identity a secret from her. Nobody dared to tell her under his command!

"He is Lawrence, Winnie. It seems that he has been wearing a mask to deceive you. Why?!" Elliott dragged her into the car and directly struck at her soul with his questions.

And at this moment, Winnie seemed to have touched upon the answer.

He said he would take off the mask when she fell in love with him. Why?

Because then, even if she found out everything, she couldn't leave him. Their child was also born for him, right?

Winnie was engulfed in pain, still unable to believe it, tears welled up in her eyes.

"Uncle, have you investigated Cameron and Irene's deaths from back then? Maybe it wasn't Lawrence, maybe..."

"Shut up!" Elliott became excited.

He was consumed by hatred. "Lawrence was kidnapped when he was young because he looked too good. That's why he has a habit of wearing masks, and some people in the upper circles of Lymington know about it. The mask was lodged in Dad's heart. What more evidence do we need?"

The car was speeding along.

Elliott forced himself to calm down, pinching his pained brow. He said, "Ten years ago, you were still young, and there were many things you didn't understand."

"As the Granger family, we were originally from Trento City. Father used to work in the medical field, but he was pushed out unfairly by his opponents. He came to Lymington with Irene, and at that time, Irene unexpectedly became pregnant with you. To avoid your father from Trento City and to protect you, he used Matthew as a decoy and settled down."

"Even though he no longer worked in the medical field, he still had connections with doctors, so when your parents had an accident, he paid a large sum of money in exchange for their silence."

"Dad's business is still quite extensive. Triton is his famous jewelry company. In Dad's hands, there is a map of South African diamond mines. It's that map that sparked Lawrence's ambition for commercial plunder ten years ago!"

Winnie felt a chill in her heart, as if recalling his claim of starting from scratch.

"Cameron and Irene died, and after I escaped abroad, I watched Imperial Jewelry rapidly rise. He used the South African diamond mines, I had someone investigate! Winnie, everything he created, Imperial Financial Group, all from the Granger family!"

Elliott gnashed his teeth in anguish. "The Anderson family? They were just tools manipulated under Lawrence's chain of interests."

Winnie's mind felt as if it had been washed clean, in a daze.

"We're going to the Anderson family, Uncle. I want to find out the cause of Cameron and Irene's death."

"Your mother was sick for a long time, it was chronic poisoning," Elliott instructed his assistant to change direction. "But the Anderson family wants revenge as well, let it be today!"

The car quickly arrived at the Anderson family villa.

Matthew and Sophia were both at home. When they saw Winnie and Elliott behind her, their faces turned pale, almost recoiling in fear.

"Elliott?!" Sophia exclaimed in terror.

Elliott sneered, "Did you not expect me to come back?"

Matthew's face turned pale as he immediately spoke up, "It wasn't me, Winnie. Cameron and Irene's deaths have little to do with us!"

"Yeah, you only received a small part of my dad's inheritance. Most of it was taken by those above you, with the condition that you obey and poison my sister slowly, right?!"

Sophia's face gradually turned ashen, retreating until she hit the corner of a table.

Winnie noticed her guilt and approached, "You poisoned my mom? She knows medicine, how could she fall for it?!"

"The mysterious person gave her something colorless and tasteless. At that time... at that time, Cameron and Imperial Company were in a fierce feud. Your mom was at her wit's end, and Matthew had the servants put it in her breakfast. By the time your mom realized, it was too late to save herself..." Sophia said tremblingly.

Elliott chuckled bitterly, his eyes icy. "Who did you give my dad's map of South African diamond mines to?"

"It was also the mysterious person. We don't know his identity. He promised us that if we killed Cameron and Irene, and brought down Cameron's vast business empire, the Anderson family would receive a portion. Your mom would marry me in name, too."

"Cameron never allowed me to get involved in any business with the Granger family. I had a change of heart. This was a carefully planned conspiracy! The map of South African mines is only necessary for those who run jewelry companies."