Chapter 1000
She sipped on her coffee dazedly and waited.
An hour passed, but there was no sight of Gavin.
‘No, if Gavin just popped out of nowhere, wouldn’t someone see us?‘ She thought.
Ashlynn thought about it and went into the bathroom. As soon as she walked inside, she jolted in shock at the sight of the man standing in front of her.
She knew that she would find Gavin in a hidden place, but had not expected to see him in the washroom.
Seeing how alarmed she was, he said, “Don’t worry. No one else is here.”
“I’m looking into Corentin. What can you tell me?” She asked.
“It’s not easy for us to meet. I hope that you can tell me everything you know once I answer your questions,” Gavin said.
“Sure.” Ashlynn’s heart raced at meeting Gavin in secret.
“The Corentin you see now isn’t the real Corentin. He’s a fraud. He’s Cory Lloyd’s illegitimate child. He used to b-”
Ashlynn interrupted him and said, “He grew up in the slum. His name is Salvatore, a sick man!”
“You knew all along?”
“Salvatore was married once and I was his wife. I was the one who sent him into prison five years ago.”
Gavin was shocked. He had made a few guesses on who Ashlynn was and why she was looking into Corentin’s identity, but he had never imagined that the two would be related in such a manner.
Corentin’s throat and Corentin died before the doctor could even get to him.”
“That’s when Cory realized that he could use Salvatore to replace Corentin,” Ashlynn said.
“Yeah.”
“But the inspector who was in charge of the case told me that he saw Salvatore die in front of him.”
“They just wrote it off that way. The prisoner was dead, and how it ended that way didn’t matter.”
Ashlynn tried her best to process the information. She had been puzzled as to how Salvatore managed to replace Corentin and even thought that Corentin could be locked up somewhere, and the truth was not what she had expected.
“There’s still something that I don’t understand. Why did Corentin’s older brother, Nigel, leave the family?” She asked, “I used to work as an assistant for Nigel’s daughter, Anne. I don’t want to do anything about it. I just want the truth. Anne has the right to know.”
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