Chapter 26

"Ms. Lacey, tell me what you need. I absolutely won't let anyone hurt you."

Everything was arranged by Virio.

As soon as we entered the house, Luca changed completely. He shut the door right away.

He turned to look at Anderson, his face cold and hard.

Anderson had gone to get us coffee, but when he turned around and saw what Luca was doing, he nearly dropped the tray. "What are you planning to do? I let you in because I wanted to have a proper talk with you."

Luca smiled, but his smile sent chills down your spine. "Of course we're going to have a proper talk. We drove all morning to get here."

"If we don't have a good talk with you, wouldn't that be a waste of our effort?"

He looked at me as he spoke. "Right, Ms. Lacey?"

Anderson brought the tray over to us, seeming afraid to look at Luca.

Since entering the room, Luca had this intimidating presence about him. He said directly to Anderson, "Let's get straight to the point. We came here today to investigate what happened to Ms. Lacey's family before."

As he spoke, he placed a data report I had given him in front of Anderson. "Look at this first, then think carefully about what really happened back then."

Looking at the report, I knew it must be that financial data from years ago.

Anderson looked suspicious at first, but after picking up the paper, his face changed dramatically. "How did you find this?"

From that one sentence, I could tell there was definitely something fishy going on. "So you do know about what happened back then, don't you!"

I stood up excitedly.

Anderson was still holding the paper. After a long while, he finally looked up at me, his face clearly showing evasiveness.

But seeing his expression, I felt I was getting close to the truth.

"Can you tell me? Anderson, I know you used to work for my father. Whatever you did to hurt my father, I can let it go! I just want to know the truth right now." As I spoke, I was almost crying.

These were truly my honest words. Actually, I never planned to do anything to Anderson when I came here.

Even though I knew what happened back then might have been with his consent, or even orchestrated by him.

But everyone lives for their own interests.

In families as big as ours, there are all kinds of dirty tricks.

Anderson probably wasn't clean either!

But I still wanted to know how my uncle managed to get my father killed.

No matter how I asked, Anderson just held that paper and refused to tell me.

He put on a stance of refusing to communicate.

"You won't get any truth from me." He looked up at me. "I have no obligation to tell you the whole truth."

I was almost in tears. "Wasn't my father good enough to you? There are three of us here, but without my say-so, no one will lay a hand on you!"

"I just want to get the truth from you."

Just when I thought this wasn't going anywhere, Luca suddenly spoke up. "Do you know who I am? Do you know who I work for?"

Anderson instinctively looked at him. "What are you talking about?"

"I was sent by Virio."

At the mention of Virio's name, Anderson's whole body shook.

I could tell Anderson was afraid of Virio. I thought, maybe we'd found our breakthrough.

I pleaded with him even harder to change his mind. "Please, I really need this information. I won't tell anyone that I came to see you today. We deliberately avoided all the cameras on our way here, just so we wouldn't expose you!"

"And after I learn this, I won't do anything. You know I don't have the ability to do anything right now, don't you?"

As I spoke, tears streamed down my face, and I almost fainted. "But my father... I've never been able to let it go..."

I desperately told Anderson that I just wanted the truth.

As for everything else, I wouldn't do anything, and I wouldn't drag him into this matter.

Anderson looked at me. At first, he seemed moved by my tears, but then he thought of something and still didn't agree after a long while.

Luca spoke up again from the side, "Since you know me, you should also know what I can do to you."

"Mr. Soren's meaning is very clear this time. We're to bring Ms. Lacey here and make sure she gets what she wants." As Luca spoke, he suddenly pulled out a knife from inside his jacket.

He just played with the knife in his hand, without making any aggressive moves.

Anderson wasn't someone who could fight.

That's what my father had told me before.

So when Anderson saw Luca do this, he immediately showed panic.

Seeing him like this, I realized this might be an opportunity I could seize. "Let me guess, you can't fight, can you?"

"And because you can't fight, when my uncle got hold of you back then, he forced you to agree this way."

Actually, I could already figure out the truth from back then myself.

Anderson looked at me for a long time, then suddenly burst into tears. "That's exactly right..."

"Ms. Lacey, I'm truly sorry!"

My desperate pleading, combined with Luca's threats, finally made Anderson give in.

Anderson looked at me and said loudly, "I really couldn't do anything about what happened back then. If you want the truth from me, of course I can tell you!"

"But you have to promise me that this won't affect me again, and when I move somewhere else next time, don't come looking for me anymore."

Hearing his words, I knew there was hope.

I nodded quickly. "I promise you, as long as you tell me the truth about what happened back then, I will never come looking for you again!"

Luca also relaxed. "Right, as long as you tell her the facts, from now on, not only will we not bother you again, we'll even send people to protect you. It's a very good deal."

Anderson's lips trembled, and after a while he told me the truth from back then.

It was Killian who made a deal with the Camorra to seize power.

I didn't expect to hear the Camorra's name here.

What shocked me even more was when Anderson continued, "Actually, I wasn't involved in the whole thing, but I was afraid of being silenced."

"It was Killian who agreed to the Camorra's actions and allowed that accident to happen. And on the day it happened, I wasn't there."

After that, almost all the people involved were fired.