Chapter 574If it weren’t for Rachael, Benjamin would never have left, let alone chosen to become a deserter.
“By the time Benjamin came back alone with Rachael, Simon had already left home, and Idris Tucker
and Lucille Chevalier had already been buried, leaving behind their only child, Nathaniel.”
Compared to Matthew, who was suffering from an emotional breakdown at the moment, Hesper was
much calmer, so she quickly caught the keyword that came out of Arthur’s mouth. “Alone?”
Arthur nodded and sighed. “No one knows where Matthew’s mother is now, but Benjamin had been
looking rather depressed since he came back with Rachael. He later died in a shipwreck abroad.
Everyone went on to claim that he died for love.”
This was completely different from the version that Matthew had been hearing since he was a child. In
his heart, his father died on a mission and was named a hero. But now he was being told by Arthur that
his father was not only a deserter but also a murderer who had caused many deaths.
Hesper, noticing that something was wrong with Matthew’s emotions, held his hand.
Seeing this, Arthur also shook his head. “Your father did a lot of right things in his life and saved a lot of
people… But perhaps he was still a selfish man in the end.”
Many years had passed since that incident, and Arthur himself was a soldier too, so when something
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But a long time had passed, and the hatred and disappointment that he had for his son back then had
long dissipated. Thinking about it now, he was just another ordinary man, so what right did he have to
hate his son?
Although Hesper was also hearing this story for the first time and did not know much about Matthew’s
parents, she could not help but feel that there were many loopholes in this story.‘According to Grandpa, before Matthew was two years old, his father had been performing all tasks
normally. Although Grandpa didn’t go into the details, I can tell that every mission accomplished by the
team was nowhere near the level of ‘simple’. Then why would Matthew’s father decide to escape with
his wife only when she was pregnant with Rachael?
‘It’d be too far-fetched to say that this matter was related to Matthew’s mother. After all, as long as the
people who created the drug were still alive and well for another day, Matthew’s mother would have to
live under the surveillance of prying eyes for another day too. So, wouldn’t it be better to crush the
organization from the root than to run and flee?’
It had been too long since the incident took place, and Hesper had never experienced it personally, so
she only kept these questions in her mind. Seeing the depressed expression on Arthur and Matthew’s
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“Nathaniel’s motives are very clear now. He believes that the Lanes caused his family’s ruin, so he’s
remained dormant in the Lanes all these years, just waiting for a day in the future where he can deal us
a fatal blow.” Hesper analyzed calmly.
The grandfather and grandson duo did not refute. She then raised a question out of the blue. “But if
that’s the case, what role do I play in this story?”
Hesper lifted her gaze, while Arthur and Matthew exchanged gazes with her after hearing her doubt.
‘Yes, by just looking at this backstory, everything in it revolves around the old scores between the
Lanes and the Tuckers… But what does this have to do with Hesper? She’s just an orphan. When all
these things happened back then, she might not have even been born.’
‘Daybreak’s repeated attempts to get near her show that she must play a very important role in this
story’.During this trip back to Emperion, some doubts were revealed, but the mystery had not completely
been solved.
When Hesper and Matthew left the room, both of them were still thinking about what bothered them the
most in the story. As soon as Arthur decided to bring all these old events up again, recalling the sorrow
and pain from back then was already inevitable. It turned out that everyone indeed needed time to
digest and accept the truth.
“Matt… Hessy.”
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