Chapter 297 - Confessing Everything (1/2)

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Susan continued to stutter, “They’re the children of an acquaintance.”

Acquaintance?

Lauren started to get a little angry when she saw that Susan was still trying to hide the truth and was not willing to tell the whole truth.

“Auntie Susan, I already know everything. Ruby has the same father as Samuel and Rene, right?”

Susan did not expect that Lauren would know about this. She opened her eyes wide and her hands on the table tensed up. She held the edge of the table tightly.

“How…how did you know about this? Did Ruby know about it too?”

Huh?

Ruby did not know about this?

Lauren remembered the conversation between herself and Ruby last night. Ruby’s reply clearly implied that she knew about this.

She even talked a lot about love and exclusivity.

However, from Susan’s tone, it seemed that she had been hiding it from Ruby. How did Ruby find out about it then?

“Auntie Susan, this matter is getting stranger and stranger. If you want to clear your name, I suggest you tell us everything. Even if you don’t think these things are important, it’s possible that they are inextricably linked to Ruby.”

Lauren needed to get a different version of the clues from Susan to unravel Ruby’s strange behavior.

Susan was silent for a while. She lowered her head and seemed to be thinking about something. After a while, she nodded her head as if she had accepted her fate.

“Okay, I’ll tell you.”

Then, she looked further away. It was clear that she was looking at a wall, but Lauren felt that she was reminiscing about her life.

“My husband…his name is Maxton Cromwell. When I first met him, I didn’t know that he already had a wife and child. He was very thoughtful and handsome, and I was quickly attracted to him. I’ve been with him ever since. I only found out about his wife and children the second year after I gave birth to Ruby.”

She slowly told the story from before with a calm tone.

“Ruby was able to enter Thomas Johnson High School’s kindergarten because of Maxton’s arrangement. Later on, I found out that Ruby’s good friend in the kindergarten was Maxton’s biological daughter, but I’ve been keeping this from Ruby.”