Chapter 1003:

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Luca returned to Zhatwell and went straight to Carole’s grave. He lowered himself onto one knee and carefully wiped the thin layer of dust from the tombstone with a handkerchief. Only after cleaning it did he place a fresh bouquet quietly in front of her grave.

Then the real storm began. He launched a merciless revenge against the entire Knight family. He intended to drag every single member of the Knight family into the fire with him. After all, the Knight Group had swallowed the Davis Group whole. In his eyes, none of them were innocent.

At times, the irony of it all almost made him laugh. If Carole’s parents had known things would end this way, would they still have forced her to marry Mike, that heartless monster?

Yet amidst all the blood and hatred, there was still one person who made Luca hesitate. Adrian.

Part of him hated the boy just as deeply as he hated Mike. If Adrian had never existed, perhaps he could have taken Carole away back then. Perhaps none of this would have happened. But another part of him couldn’t ignore the truth. This child had been carried by Carole for nine long months. If he killed him, would Carole resent him even in death?

What he never expected was what he saw after removing Adrian’s mask. That face… it looked almost identical to his own.

The moment he returned, he secretly ordered people to investigate every detail of Adrian’s childhood. The records claimed Adrian had suffered a car accident when he was young, leaving his face badly disfigured. Since then, he had worn a mask permanently. But the face Luca saw had no scars at all.

Everything suddenly connected like pieces of a shattered mirror falling into place. If Adrian was his son, then every strange detail finally made sense. Carole must have noticed Adrian growing more and more similar to him. To hide the truth that the child wasn’t Mike’s, she staged the accident and used the mask to cover everything up. Later, she ruthlessly sent Adrian overseas to study at a young age, not because she didn’t love him, but because she wanted to protect him.

“But how is that possible?” Luca pressed a hand against his head, his thoughts in complete chaos. “We only slept together once… At that time, she was already carrying Mike’s child. How could you possibly be mine?”

ѕa𝘃𝗲 у𝗈𝘶𝗋 f𝖺vо𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘦 ո𝘰𝘃e𝗅𝗌 𝘰ո 𝗴𝖺𝗹n𝗈𝘷el𝘴.сo𝗆

“It happened that night…” Mike muttered between clenched teeth, humiliation and fury burning in his eyes.

Adrian immediately caught the change in Mike’s expression. “So you really do know what happened back then.”

Luca suddenly grabbed Mike by the collar with brutal force. “Talk! Tell me what actually happened!”

Mike struggled to breathe, but since he already knew he was doomed, fear slowly gave way to reckless defiance. “Why should I tell you? What, if I confess, you’ll suddenly spare my life?”

“Are you going to speak or not?” Luca growled, the veins on the back of his hand standing out sharply.

Mike sneered stubbornly. “If I stay silent, I die. If I talk, I still die. So why would I help you?”

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