Chapter 531
Chapter 531
If Warren really was still somewhere in Liono City, then how had he managed to stay hidden for more than a decade?
And what about the two bodies they had found all those years ago?
Unfortunately, Chris had no way to obtain usable DNA samples from Warren or his wife, Audrey Lambert.
They had found strands of hair in the house at Westbury, but the samples had not been preserved properly. The follicles were too damaged to extract any usable DNA.
The ashes Chris had secretly switched out were no help either.
That was right.
The two urns Winter had scattered into the ocean had never contained her parents’ ashes.
Chris had arranged for them to be replaced with another powder beforehand.
But right now, everything was still only a theory.
Until Chris was absolutely certain, he would not allow things to reach a point that could never be undone.
He knew how strong-willed Winter was. He had considered the possibility that she might eventually decide to let go of her parents’ ashes.
Even so, when Gavin told him that Winter had scattered both urns into the ocean, Chris had to admit that
fear had hit him hard.
That was why he had immediately gone after her disguised as Roy.
Remembering all of that, Chris picked up the little ceramic dog from the table and closed his hand tightly
around it.
“Winnie, I hope I’m right p>
Chris had Gavin reopen the investigation into Warren and Audrey, this time focusing on their past relationships.
But these were affairs from the previous generation, and so many years had passed that uncovering
anything useful was not easy.
Fortunately, Gavin was efficient.
“Mr. Xander, everything we found is here p>
Gavin handed him an organized file.
Chris opened it and began reading.
Warren was the man Sasha had truly loved.
Audrey had been Jimmy’s first love.
And Audrey had also grown up in the same orphanage as Bart, the drug lord who had once terrorized the
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border region and the surrounding areas.
Bart was also Skyla’s biological father.
Chris frowned.
The love lives of the previous generation were complicated enough to belong in a soap opera.
As Chris went through the files, Gavin reported what he had learned over the past few days.
“I spoke with several people who went to school with Audrey. They said that every Friday, a rough-looking man with a tattoo on his arm would come pick her up. The two of them were very close, almost like a couple p>
Gavin continued, “I showed them a photo of Bart, and they recognized him immediately p>
Brutal as Bart had been, he had also been strikingly handsome.
Otherwise, he probably wouldn’t have had a daughter as beautiful as Skyla.
“I also tracked down the woman who ran the orphanage back then,” Gavin continued. “She’s elderly now and doesn’t remember everything clearly, but she still remembers Bart and Audrey.
“She said Audrey was quiet, pretty, and well behaved. Bart, on the other hand, was basically the toughest kid in the orphanage. But he always protected her, so no one dared mess with her p>
Chris’s hand paused over the file.
“So Audrey and Bart grew up together p>
Gavin nodded.
“But later, she met Warren in college. They started dating before graduation p>
There were two photographs inside the folder.
One was of Winter’s mother, Audrey Lambert.
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The woman in the other photo looked strikingly similar to her.
Chris studied it.
“Who is she p>
“Skyla’s mother,” Gavin replied.
Victor Jasper had sent a woman who looked remarkably like Audrey to Bart.
Chris tapped his fingers lightly against the desk.
Piece by piece, the tangled relationships between them began to make sense.
So Audrey hadn’t only been Jimmy’s first love.
She had also been the woman Bart had loved but could never have.
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Olivia Harris
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