Chapter 67: The Truth Unvelled

Chapter 67: The Truth Unveiled

(Elena’s POV)

Faced with this devastating news, I went straight to the hospital morque. As soon as I entered, I saw Patricia, my adopted mother, her face ashen, guarding the freezer, refusing to move no matter how bDr. /bSamuel

Fletcher tried to persuade her

“Mrs. ckthorne, please,” Dr. Fletcher said gently. “You need to rest. Standing here won’t bring him back.”

bPatricia’s /beyes were hollow, staring at the metal door. “I can’t leave him alone. bHe’s /bafraid of the cold.”

Dr. Fletcher looked at me with sympathy, suggesting that as a family member, I might be able to offer somefort. After the doctor left, I approached the freezer step by step.

Looking at the middle–aged man lying inside, a face I knew so well that I both loved and hated, I almost lost

control.

I had seen death before, in the institute, every day pack members died from illness, idents, or failed healing attempts. But seeing my own family die before my eyes was another experience and feeling entirely.

My chest trembled, and I took deep breaths to calm myself. Tears streamed down my face like beads.

“Mom, what exactly is going on? You’re lying to me, right? To stop me from severing the mate bond, Father

deliberately did this to make mepromise, right!*

“Tell me, please answer me!”

My breakdown brought Patricia back bfrom /bher grief. She stared nkly at me, who was crying, and her dry lips slowly opened, her voice hoarse.

“This is real.”

I stopped crying, standing stiffly for a long time. After a moment, I calmed all my emotions.

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“What exactly happened?”

Seeing Patricia’s silence, I grabbed her shoulders. “Mom! Tell me quickly, what happened!”

“It… It’s Sophia Rivers.” Patricia’s face dimmed, and she told me everything that had happened.

The meeting at Moonstone Café. The usations about me being a mistress. Sophia’s revtion about

Oliver being Marcus’s son.

The confrontation on the Terrace Overlook. Oliver’s fall. The crowd turning against them.

Richard’s heart attack. The single ambnce. Marcus’s choice to save Oliver first.

I listened to everything expressionlessly, not speaking for a long time. Until I turned to leave, Patricia grabbed

me

“Elena, don’t go, bwe /bhave no evidence, we can’t fight her!”

My voice was hoarse. “Evidence, there will be.”

I left.

Chapter 67: The Truth Unw

(Sophia Rivers‘ POV)

Oliver Rivers had fallen from the building, and after emergency healing, he was out of danger and quickly transferred from the Intensive Healing Ward to a General Recovery Ward.

I tucked Oliver in and looked at Marcus, saying, “Marcus, I was really scared to death. Fortunately, Oliver is okay, otherwise I would regret it to death.”

Marcus looked at the IV drip bottle, his expression cold and indifferent. “How did they end up with you?”

“They were there for Elenn.” I walked towards him, my eyes red. “They said Elena mated with you, and cursed me as a mistress, Marcus, are you really mated?”

He withdrew his gaze and said faintly. “She was chosen by Elder Margaret.”

I hid the hatred in my eyes, thinking that the old she–wolf was the most obstructive! “I didn’t know you were mated, and… no wonder Elena would misunderstand me.”

My face remained innocent. “Marcus, if something had happened to Oliver, I’m afraid…”

“It won’t.” Marcus frowned, interrupting me.

I lowered my eyes. “Oliver is innocent, he doesn’t have aplete family, nor a father. Now that this has happened, I really don’t know what to do. Maybe, I should take Oliver away from the Northern Territory.”

“Sophia.” Marcus called my name, his handsome faceplex, his eyes showing a hint of guilt. “You and

Oliver don’t have to leaveb./b”

I said with difficulty, “But…”

“Til talk to the ckthorne family about it, as for Oliver Marcus paused for half a second, rubbing his watch with his fingertips, looking directly at me. “I will temporarily send him to the ckwood family, he is rtively

safe there.”

I lowered my head, hiding a trace of joy in my eyes. “Marcus, thank you.”

After Marcus left, I restrained all my smiles and picked up my phone to dial a number. “That ambnce didn’t

make it to the scene, did it?”

The other bparty /bsaid, “It didn’t make it, the person had already died when it arrived.”

“Very good.” I walked to the window and smiled. “Go back and thank your boss for me.”

(Elena’s POV)

After handling Richard’s funeral procedures, I wanted to send Patricia home and met Nathan Sterling downstairs at the Institute Main Entrance.

Nathan got out of the car and walked towards us, his face bing serious. “I heard about the changes in your family.”

I was stunned for a moment, unable to say anything.

Nathan nodded to Patricia and said softly, “Aunt, please ept my condolences.”

Patricia just nodded, her expression still dull and empty, as if only an empty shell remained.

“Nathan.” I said hoarsely, “I’ll send my mom back first.”

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“I’m worried about your current state, I’ll drive you.”

I looked at him and nodded. “Thank you”

Nathan drove the two of us to the ckthorne Pack Grounds. A neighbor saw this scene, unaware of the ckthorne family’s changes, and thought Nathan was my mate.

“Hey, Patricia, is that your son–inwing to see you?” the neighbor called out.

Nathan’s action of helping Patricia out of the car paused when he heard the word “son–inw.

Patricia couldn’t hear anything at the moment and ignored the neighbor’s question. I was only concerned about sending Patricia back to rest and naturally didn’t pay attention.

Seeing the mother and daughter ignoring her, the neighbor muttered, “What a depressing expression, like someone died!”

I helped Patricia into the ckthorne Family Hall, with Nathan also helping. After Patricia returned to the bedroom, she finally opened her mouth.

“I want to be alone.”

I was worried about her, but this change happened so suddenly, and she did need to be alone at this time.

“Mom, I’m just outside the door, call me if you need anything”

I exited the bedroom.

Nathan looked at me in the living room. “How is your mother?”

I I shook my head. “She’s fine.”

“Elena, don’t be too sad, if there’s anything you need from me, just say it.‘ Nathan approached, raising his hand to put it on my shoulder. “Don’t bottle it up either.”

Hearing these words, my heart suddenly felt even more ufortable.

“Cry if you want to.”

As soon as he finished speaking, I covered my lips, trying not to cry too loudly. Nathan put his arm around me and patted my back tofort me.

Three dayster, Richard’s funeral was kept simple, but apart from Grace ckthorne, who was genuinely there to see him off, the rest of the ckthorne family tried every means to swallow Richard’s inheritance.

The Elder ckthorne Couple and Thomas ckthorne’s family colluded, and even before the Memorial Hall, they humiliated Patricia.

“If my son hadn’t mated with you, would he have bdied /bso early! You are just a jinx! You still want to upy the ckthorne family’s things!”

Patricia didn’t say a word from beginning to end, just standing there quietly

I stepped into the hall. “Enough!“,

Everyone looked at me..

“When my father was alive, did you ever think of helping him? Now that he’s gone, the house and business have be yours instead? My father’s first seven days haven’t even passed yet, are you still human?”

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The other two didn’t respond, bet Vivian ckthorneughed erit Pichard still a ckthorne bfamily /bmeber even if he moved out? Besides, I’m also thinking about you. Richard is gone, now that you are an orphan and a widow, you have to return to the ckthome family, right?”

I sneered Return to the ckthorne family? is it to let my mother go back to serve you? Why did my father move out, don’t you know very well?”

The reason why Richard chose to move out was to escape the oppression of the Elder ckthome Couple

and his elder brother

I looked at the quilty Elder ckthorne Couple, and smiled mockingly. “As your son, you favor Uncle Thomas, just because Uncle Thomas mated with you a daughter–inw with a little family background to act as a facade

the ckthorne family, right? if it weren’t for my father giving you a grandson, and you didn’t want the ckthorne family to have no descendants, you probably wouldn’t evene to see him die here today, right?

Perhaps feeling a little embarrassed, the Elder ckthorne matriarch also revealed her btrue /bcolors. “What

qualifications do you, a junior, have to question me! So what if that’s the case? He was born to me, I can do

whatever I want!”

“Today, the things that belong to my son, you have to give them, whether you want to or not!”

I pped the Elder ckthorne matriarch in the face. The p was so sudden that everyone hardly reacted.

“Elena, are you crazy! Thomas ckthorne looked at me.

“Im just crazy.” I pulled out a silver dagger, pointing it at them with a smile. “Whoeveres to take it, I’ll stab

them!”

Thomas’s face changed slightly. “Elena, let’s talk nicely, why use a silver de?”

“Why be afraid of a young girl?” Vivian didn’t believe it. “Does she have the ability to stab me to death?”

b“/bDid Aunt Vivian forget my profession?” I deftly yed with the dagger in my bhand/b. “I’m a healer, I can ensure that I don’t stab you to death, but let you experience what it feels like to be worse than dead. Besides, there

are no cameras here, your mutual confessions can’t make aplete evidence link. Or should I start with

Aunt Vivian first!”

I picked up the dagger and was about to stab Vivian

Vivian panicked and dodged, her face pale “Crazy, she’s crazy!”

“Go, leave first Thomas was afraid of causing a real death and didn’t dare to stay any longer, and the group

quickly left.

Grace ckthorne turned her head and nced at Elena and Patricia, sighed, and went out the door.

The memorial hall was finally quiet.

“Elena.” Patricia called bme /bfrom behind, her eyes red. “It’s Mom who has implicated you?”

I put down the dagger and walked towards her. “Don’t say that, you have given me the grace of upbringing.

there’s nothing to implicate.”

“But Mom shouldn’t continue to hold you back.” Patricia held my hand. “You can go find your biological

parents, you should have a better life, a moreplete life.”

Chapter 67: The Truth Unv

I was stunned for a moment, silent for a moment, and held her back. “Let’s talk about these thingster. Mom, after this bis /bover, let’s take David and leave the Northern Territory”

“Leave the Northern Territory?”

“Actually, I applied for a job transfer two months ago, I’m going to Riverside City, and I won’t being back

then.”

Patricia was surprised. “You bhad /balready nned to leave, so, you severed the mate bond with Marcus?”

I nodded. “Yes, I just wanted to sever the mate bond with Marcus, that’s why I applied for a job transfer.” Patricia was thinking painfully. “As your mother, knowing that you are suffering in the mating, I still made you endure it for the sake of your brother…” Patricia suddenly pped herself hard.

“Mom!” I stopped her. “What are you doing!”

“It’s Mom who is sorry for you, Mom deserves to die!” Patricia wanted to kneel down to me, but I hugged her. “Don’t be like this! Mom, I’m not ming you!”

bPatricia /bcried in my arms, feeling terribly guilty.

Nathan walked into the memorial hall. “Did something happen?”