My Love for You Broke Me

Chapter 700

Chapter 700 The Incident Nine Years Ago

I asked an obvious question.

Shawn gave me an answer. "No one is reliable."

"Mr. Briar said that Rudy might leave a slight margin of possibility."

Shawn had seen through Alfred's true nature. "Alfred is more likely to tear people apart."

After we entered the living room, I went to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk for Shawn and heated it up in the microwave. Meanwhile, Shawn stood at the doorway with his arms crossed, and his slender body leaned against the door frame. "Ray, this is not a competition in the business world. No matter how much money you have, it won't help. It all depends on who can outsmart the other. Whether it's me, Alfred, or the person pulling the strings from the shadows, everyone is plotting against each other. While the praying mantis hunts the cicada, the oriole is behind the praying mantis. It all depends on who is the oriole, or who is the hunter with a gun behind the oriole."

I felt anxious when I heard what he said. "Isn't it dangerous?"

Shawn shook his head. "I'm not telling you all this to make you worry about me. I want you to understand the current situation."

He was teaching me…

He was teaching me how to think in his world.

"Are you and Sir Larson the mantis or the cicada now?"

Shawn smirked. "At least we are not the oriole."

Not the oriole, and definitely not the hunter with a gun.

I bit my lip. "Then who do you suspect is the oriole?"

"It's obvious that Alfred and I have the same suspicion."

Alfred was the first to suspect Ezekiel.

And Shawn also suspected Ezekiel.

I wanted to say that it couldn't be him.

However, I couldn't insist on believing another man in front of Shawn. I gently handed him the warm milk and offered, "Have some. You must be tired after you were busy for two days."

He took the milk. "It's late now. I'll tell you more tomorrow. I haven't talked about what happened nine years ago."

I wasn't that interested in what happened nine years ago, but if Shawn was willing to tell me, I was willing to listen. It would be a story with a clear beginning and end, hopefully without too much heartache.

Shawn took the milk upstairs. After he took a few sips, he went into the bathroom to take a shower. He then wanted to go to sleep.

But under my insistence, he finished the milk.

After finishing the milk, he sighed. "You're so domineering, Mrs. Xenos."

"I went out of my way to heat it up. You can't waste it."

He raised an eyebrow. "You 'went out of your way'?"

I retorted, "Isn't it hard to heat up the milk?"

After saying that, I tucked myself into the blanket.

He scooped me up and pulled me into his chest. Smelling his scent, I quickly fell into a deep sleep.

I woke up early the next morning. The sky outside was still dark, but there were already voices— probably the busy servants in the castle—downstairs. After all, today was the birthday party.

The man beside me was already awake. Seeing my rousing from sleep, he covered my eyes with his hand and quietly asked, "Are you still sleepy?" Ccontent © exclusive by Nô/vel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"Yeah, my eyelids feel heavy," I replied.

"It's still early. Sleep a little longer."

Instead, I wrapped my hands around his waist. "What are you doing, Sunny?"

He answered, "I'm doing a little reading."

"You have an obsession with reading."

Hearing no reply from him, I asked with my eyes closed, "The incident nine years ago... You said you would tell me today. Do you have time now?"

Shawn fell silent for a while and then said, "I don't know where to start."

I opened my eyes and stared at him. He furrowed his brows and thought for a while before starting, "Let me tell you about what happened nine years ago."

"I'll ask questions then. Why did you sign that agreement?"

"It was a family scandal. There were always 24 bodyguards by the side of the head of the Xenos Family. At that time, my mother and the concubines placed their hopes for a breakthrough on them. My mother wanted to use them to eliminate my three older brothers, whereas the concubines wanted to use them to eliminate me. After the incident, I found more than a dozen traitors. Three of them were convicted without sufficient evidence and were hunted down... That's one part of what happened."

Seeing Shawn hesitate to continue, I asked him what happened next.

In a slightly lower voice, he resumed his story. "The main point is my three older brothers. At that time, I had just returned to Xenos' Villa and didn't know about these things. When 'Father' sent my three older brothers to Grayson, I didn't know it was my mother's scheme... 'Father' didn't know either. The reason for signing that confidentiality agreement was because 'Father' thought it was the concubines' plan to harm me. I am a member of the Xenos Family. That's the first scandal. The second one is that the outbreak of this incident alerted your father of Owen Walton's existence."

I knew Owen Walton.

I had seen him before, and Eliza even told me to spare him.

Shawn explained further, "Owen Walton was my mother's bodyguard. 'Father' traced the dirty secrets around my mother and found out about those things. That's the second scandal. Family scandals should not be made public."

So that was why the agreement was signed!

Shawn gave me an answer to my confusion. "'Father' had someone sign the agreement, and because of my mother's private affairs, I agreed to 'Father's' decision. It was only later that I learned about the deaths of my three older brothers and their connection to my mother's schemes... She had planted doubts in 'Father's' mind all along, making him suspect that these three sons were not his biological

children. 'Father' even did a paternity test, but my mother tampered with the results. That's why your father had Ezekiel target me. It's because I am not his biological son. While enjoying the family glory, he also eliminated his own biological sons."

Now I had a rough idea of what happened nine years ago.

But the three who were hunted down because of insufficient evidence were too pitiful... Owen was someone who surprisingly survived at that time.

He was a follower of Eliza.

He posed a threat to me and May.

After all, May killed Eliza.

And May did it for me.

Shawn Xenos lifted me up from the bed and hugged me in his arms, adding, "No one in the Xenos Family was innocent in the events nine years ago. Even I was manipulated by someone at that time. My mother originally wanted to use me to get rid of my three older brothers and the 23 bodyguards by my side, excluding Owen Walton. Although the matter of my three older brothers had nothing to do with me, it wasn't completely unrelated, because... It's too complicated. My mother used various schemes to make 'Father' suspect that these three sons were not his biological children, and she even made 'Father' doubt that they were plotting against me in secret. 'Father' wanted to protect me, who he believed to be the only bloodline of the Xenos Family, and so he had murderous intent toward my three older brothers. In the end, it all started because of me. Besides, I personally took care of those bodyguards who were still alive. Although the three who escaped are still alive... I fulfilled half of their intentions."

The three who escaped were still alive.

Apart from Owen, there were two more.

I wasn't very concerned about this matter.

After all, I didn't know those people.

I comforted him. "But Sunny, although these things happened because of you, they are not your fault. There's no need to blame yourself."

He uttered softly, "I won't feel guilty about it. I have told you before that I have a clear conscience about what happened nine years ago. Although they put me in an unjust situation, I made amends afterward."

Shawn had come to terms with this matter.

He knew it wasn't his fault.

"Things that happen in big families are inherently complicated and obscure. In the end, your mother did it for you. You don't have to keep thinking about it."

"Why were you suddenly concerned about this before?"