Cold Husband Burning Regret: The Divorce He Couldn't Handle novel Chapter 614

Sean froze for a second, then walked over to her. “Lottie, why did you come here? I told you to wait for me at home.”

“Dad, I came because there’s something I need to tell you all. It’s about… Uncle Shane.”

Charlotte told them everything she knew. The revelation that Shane wasn’t Hulda’s son was shocking enough, but the greatest surprise of all was that Shane wasn’t a “son” at all.

Mr. Rayburn’s expression, predictably, was thunderous.

The string of beads in his hand suddenly snapped, the wooden beads scattering across the floor with a clatter. He had lived a long life, only to be made a fool of by a woman to this extent.

His “son” was not his.

His “son” was a “daughter.”

It was the cruelest joke imaginable.

Susy slowly came to her senses. “She… she’s a woman? How did no one find out after all these years?”

“The drugs she was taking masked her female characteristics. If I’m not mistaken, Hulda must have forced her to take them out of fear that her gender would be revealed,” Charlotte explained.

Sean took a sharp breath. No wonder she had asked him a few days ago if Shane looked like a girl…

He never would have imagined it was true.

“This is just monstrous,” Susy said. She had seen her share of dirty tricks, but forcing a child to take hormones was a level of cruelty she had never encountered. Suddenly, Hulda’s death didn’t seem like such a tragedy.

“If she knew all along that she wasn’t a Rayburn, then why does she have such a deep-seated grudge against our family?”

Julian gasped. “I have to tell Mr. Caleb about this immediately!”

Julian hurried off, and Charlotte took the opportunity to go see Loretta. The events of the past few days must have been a devastating blow to her.

She arrived at Loretta’s home, where a housekeeper let her in, explaining that Loretta had been locked in her room for two days, refusing to come out or eat.

Charlotte pushed open the bedroom door. Even though it was daytime, the room was so dark she could barely see.