Gladys was very disheartened and she couldn’t stop wiping tears from her cheeks. “I tried to call you and tell you about it, but you hung up on my call every time.”

…

Noah lit the cigarette and kept his head lowered. He took a few drags before asking, “Am I right in saying that Gwynn gave you some sort of instructions for when she’s gone?”

The old servant didn’t dare to keep things hidden from him anymore. So, she stammered and told him everything.

By the end of it, she murmured, “Aside from the fifty million dollars, Ms. Gwynn also knitted six cashmere sweaters and two scarves for Lorian. She even asked Ms. Zoe to take Lorian in as her own son. Ms. Zoe agreed to it too.”

Fifty million dollars, six sweaters, and two scarves. On top of that, Gwynn was sending Lorian away. It’d seem that she didn’t count on surviving the cancer the moment she found out about it in Silvercrest back then!

Blinking slowly, he noticed that his cigarette had burned out without him knowing about it. He