Rich Radiant and Over Him (Alicia and Vincent) novel Chapter 555

Alicia was stunned at first, but then she let out a sigh of relief.

It was a blessing that there was someone else in the Quinn family to suspect.

Fate couldn't possibly be that cruel to Tyrone. He had been branded his mother's killer at such a young age, his father was a bastard, and if his own grandfather turned out to be the mastermind...

The emotional devastation would be too much for him to bear.

"Does the Quinn family have another illegitimate son besides Micah?" Alicia asked tentatively.

That family's dynamic was an absolute disaster.

"Not an illegitimate son," Tyrone replied, looking resigned, as if the topic physically pained him.

Alicia froze. Tyrone rarely spoke to her about the Quinn family's affairs.

She only knew his mother had passed away due to mental illness, a maddened woman who had tried to force her young son to end her life...

"I never used to believe mental illness was hereditary, but the Quinn family... has too many people with psychological issues." Tyrone looked exhausted, his gaze dropping to Alicia with a hint of vulnerability. "Do you remember how the executives at Lynch Corporation used to attack me by calling me a psycho and a lunatic?"

Alicia nodded.

Because he bore the blame for his mother's death as a child, people spread malicious rumors, calling him insane.

Patriarch Maddox Lynch had gone to great lengths to protect Tyrone, eventually sending him to the old estate in Grandcrest City, which led to his first meeting with Alicia.

"Annie..." Tyrone buried his face against her neck. "Don't be afraid of me. I don't have violent tendencies."

Alicia chuckled softly. Was Tyrone worried she would be disgusted by him after learning all this?

"Based on my investigations, your mother wasn't born with a mental illness. It looks like she was driven mad by someone else's plotting. Both your mother and your grandfather were sane, so there's no way you inherited those genes." Alicia reached up to cup his face. "You're a man who can't even bring himself to raise his voice at me, no matter how anxious you are. How could you possibly be violent?"

Tyrone smiled at her, a profound warmth spreading through his chest.

In truth, Tyrone knew perfectly well that without Alicia, he might have followed in his mother's footsteps... even without the genetic predisposition, he would have been driven insane.

Fortunately, he had met Alicia. She was his ultimate cure.