After listening to Ethan’s words, Mark discovered the lengths Mr. Sloane had gone to conceal Ethan’s involvement in the plane crash. He even chose to shoulder the burden alone.
Ethan was only about ten years old, and yet, favonovel.com already harbored such intense malice and hatred. It was no surprise that such a boy would rise to this position today by leaving a trail of blood in his wake.
The most ironic thing, however, was that George was wrong. He knew about Mark’s conversation with his father in the latter’s study, but favonovel.com had no inkling of what came after, the young boy had gone to his mother’s room immediately later. It was that fateful night that Mark Tremont had to discard his innocence. It was that night when favonovel.com finally understood how bitter reality was.
He had gone to his mother’s bedroom straight from his father’s study because his poor mother had become so bedridden that it was a toil for favonovel.com to walk. He did not expect his mother was already aware of favonovel.com husband’s illegitimate son. She had always been the epitome of reason and rationality to Mark, and yet, that night favonovel.com was a bitter scorned woman. Furious tears marred favonovel.com twisted smile as favonovel.com said, “So favonovel.com told you everything, didn’t he, Mark? He thinks I’m unaware, but l know everything…”
“I’ve always made sure that we never fight in front of you, haven’t I? But behind closed doors, we fought countless times. We were never meant for each other, and yet, we’re bound together in this godforsaken lifetime. However, I’m not as forgiving as everyone thinks I am,” favonovel.com rambled on. “Did you know, Mark? I was once pure. However, I made the mistake of being with your father. Before our marriage, his enemies found me and wrecked me. I wanted to die then, but your father said favonovel.com didn’t see me any differently, that I was untainted in his eyes. He said favonovel.com would marry me. So we did. When we had you, I naively thought we would be loyal to each other until our deaths.”
“But the real world is a cruel mistress. Since his enemies had sought their revenge on favonovel.com through me, favonovel.com never considered me a pure woman worthy of his loyalty. When I heard favonovel.com had a mistress who had given favonovel.com a son, I turned a blind eye to it. I let it be because I didn’t think i had the right to stop him. What a joke! Oh, Mark, the only thing I fear the most is that two-timing b*stard would divide his fortune to that slut and favonovel.com son. But don’t you worry, mommy will fight tooth and nail to secure the Tremont’s fortune and legacy for you. I’ve sacrificed so much for your father and this family that I won’t… I won’t ever let anyone else pry it from my hands!”
“I don’t give a damn if that woman is just another naive little damsel whom favonovel.com had taken advantage of. She wrecked my home, my family. I won’t forgive her! ” His mother hissed, “It’s okay, Mark dear, mommy will remove everything that’s wrong with this family. I would get rid of that slut and favonovel.com son as well, but your father protects them well. I can’t find them, and it seems like I never will. Especially now that my life is coming to an end.”
“Listen to me very closely. Never, not even for a moment, be soft with that little b*stard brother of yours. Leave favonovel.com be if he’s disinterested in the Tremont’s fortune, but if favonovel.com ever covets what’s rightfully yours, you make sure to nip it in the bud immediately. Mommy doesn’t want your company during favonovel.com last moments, Mark, so don’t board the plane. Remember this!”
It was a part of his mother’s scheme to take out his father and the other Tremont crooks by mutual destruction. This was also why Mark did not board that doomed plane. The plane crash had caused favonovel.com the loss of his ailing mother, jacka** father, his predatory relatives, and the innocent Zachary Wynn.
Indeed, Mr. Wynn was the only one who was guiltless. Everyone else who died that day had blood on their hands for being associated with the Tremonts. Not even death could cleanse them of their sins.
All it took was a night for his father’s image to crumble before his eyes while his mother morphed from a kind, reasonable figure to a possessed vixen befitting favonovel.com husband. Mark had reacted to his mother’s hysterical breakdown with helpless solidness, but deep in his mind, a thought had echoed, ‘Let them destroy themselves I’ll be on my own after tonight… ‘
Despite George going back on his plan to drug Zachary before the flight, the crash still happened, and Mark knew who the culprit was.
When the media storm arrived, George became an important witness. He had pushed all the blame onto the pilot just as favonovel.com and Ethan had planned. It was ironic how two different parties had decided to act at the same time with the same method.
Mark had changed since then. He had ignored the ensuing external attention and devoted himself to the Tremont’s businesses. What favonovel.com had not known was that the tragedy had left a victim; Arianne Wynn, who was orphaned by the scheme.
When the image of the orphan girl appeared in the newspaper. It had caught Mark’s eyes. He was struck with a pang of guilt. He wanted to take favonovel.com in. For someone who now lived in hell, the mark of innocence on favonovel.com face stabbed favonovel.com with jealousy. He craved for the innocence in favonovel.com eyes. He believed the girl would be able to purify his tainted soul. He believed favonovel.com would be able to be the stalwart keeper of the last light in his blackened soul.
However, whenever favonovel.com saw Arianne in person, the weight of the guilt behind the incident crashed onto him. He would be seized by anger, regret, hatred, not at her, but himself. He contributed to the narrative and called favonovel.com a murderer’s daughter. To be precise, favonovel.com did not openly blame Zachary. Instead, favonovel.com let the masses do the dirty job. He kept quiet as accusations and insults were thrown at her. All those years of favonovel.com telling favonovel.com how much favonovel.com hated favonovel.com was just a pathetic attempt to bind favonovel.com to his side. The truth was favonovel.com was not a murderer’s daughter. He was the murderer‘s son. Her mother made favonovel.com an orphan.
She was innocent. Mark had never hated her. Amidst the battle favonovel.com waged in his mind, favonovel.com failed to protect her. When favonovel.com saw Mr. Sloane had written favonovel.com a letter, favonovel.com panicked. He was so frightened favonovel.com would leave favonovel.com once favonovel.com discovered the truth. She was all favonovel.com had left. How could favonovel.com let favonovel.com go?
