Chapter 262 She Said She Is Gilbert’s Daughter

Chapter 262 She Said She Is Gilbert’s Daughter

Yvonne's body stiffened. She slowly slid back down onto the cold cement floor, her back against the door panel, tears finally rolling down from her red, swollen eyes.

The money was gone, the villa was gone, the jewelry was gone—everything valuable had been stripped away by Frederick!

She was locked up in this godforsaken place that was half-demolished, crying out to heaven and earth with no response, and even two servants could mock and ridicule her!

What was the point of living anymore?

But just as Yvonne's heart turned to ashes, she suddenly remembered something.

The servants were startled by another violent banging on the door from behind, and shouted angrily, "Crazy woman! What the hell do you want?"

"You can't treat me like this! Go tell Frederick, go tell him! I dared to run away from Tranquil Mind Villa not because I'm stupid! Not because I didn't know the consequences of escaping! It's because I'm not afraid of the Montgomery family coming after me at all! I'm not some fake heiress!"

The servant sneered mockingly.

"Who are you trying to fool? Everyone in Starlight City knows you were switched at birth. What real heiress, fake heiress—who's going to believe your nonsense?"

But Yvonne turned a deaf ear and continued screaming at the top of her lungs.

"I'm Gilbert's biological daughter! The Montgomery family blood runs in my veins! Tell Frederick to go find out who Gilbert is, what Gilbert means to the Montgomery family! Once he's figured it out, then let him think carefully about whether he dares treat me like this!"

The two servants outside the door, who had been casual until now, both froze at the same time.

They were old employees of the Aldridge family, not young anymore, and they had heard bits and pieces about the storms that swept through Starlight City twenty years ago.

Gilbert was Leonard's half-brother. Leonard doted on him, valued him extraordinarily, practically wanted to hold him in the palm of his hand and protect him.

Everyone said he was the young master of the Montgomery family, but he had no interest in the family business—his heart was only with Leonard.

Back then, when someone poisoned Leonard, it was Gilbert who drank that poisoned wine in Leonard's place, ending up mentally disabled himself.

Leonard's guilt and debt to this brother was something everyone in Starlight City with ears had heard about.

If what Yvonne said was true, then forget about locking her in the basement—just that wound on her ankle from scraping against the iron railing today would be enough for the Montgomery family to skin them alive!

"Is what she's saying... true or false?" one servant asked the other in a trembling voice.

The other servant's face had already turned deathly pale. Without bothering to answer, he immediately pulled out his phone and dialed Frederick's number.

Frederick was leisurely drinking coffee in his office.

He was in a great mood, an incredibly great mood.

Yvonne's money had been transferred, the buyer's follow-up procedures had been handled cleanly, and now he just had to wait to invest this money into several promising projects to revive the Aldridge Group's mess.

As for Yvonne...

Heh, lock her up for a few days, starve her for a few meals, and she'd naturally behave.

Once things blew over, he'd find a chance to send her far away. Whether she lived or died would have nothing to do with him.

His phone rang.

He glanced at the caller ID—it was the servant watching Yvonne—so he answered. "What's wrong? Is she making trouble again? Add two more layers of tape, don't hold back..."

"Mr. Aldridge." The servant's voice was shaking. "There's something you need to know right away. Yvonne just said... she said she's not some fake heiress. She said she's Gilbert's biological daughter!"

Frederick's hand holding the coffee cup froze in mid-air.

"What did you say?"

"I don't know why she suddenly said this." The servant's voice kept trembling.

"But... but Mr. Aldridge, you'd better look into Gilbert's background! She said it so confidently, it really doesn't sound fake!"

Frederick's hand shook, and the coffee cup slipped, crashing heavily onto the desk.

After a long while, Frederick finally shuddered and snapped back to reality.

He stared at the now-disconnected phone screen, his whole body frozen in the office chair, his brain feeling like someone had suddenly sucked it dry, leaving only a buzzing in his ears.

The coffee splattered on the desk dripped down the edge drop by drop. The scalding liquid dripped onto his dress pants, but he didn't notice at all.

Gilbert...

Yvonne's biological father?

These two names crashed around wildly in his head, making his temples throb.

Frederick grabbed his phone abruptly. His fingers were trembling so badly that it took him two tries to dial his mother's number.

Veronica's impatient voice soon came through the receiver.

"What's the rush? The bank is processing everything. The money going into the company won't be short by a penny. What are you so anxious about?"

The next second, Frederick shouted back into the phone.

"Invest what? Don't invest it! Mom, we might be in huge trouble!"

Veronica on the other end was stunned by Frederick's outburst. After two seconds, she lowered her voice and asked, "What huge trouble? Explain yourself clearly, stop being so dramatic."

"It's Yvonne! Yvonne says she's not a fake heiress!" Frederick sprang up from his chair and paced back and forth anxiously in the office.

"She says she's Gilbert's daughter! Gilbert! Do you know who Gilbert is? Leonard's brother! The Gilbert who drank the poisoned wine for Leonard and became an idiot! She says she's his biological daughter!"

The other end of the phone fell into dead silence.

After a full five seconds, Veronica's voice finally came back.

"How is that possible? Gilbert only has one son. When he went crazy, his wife took their son abroad. I've never heard anything about a daughter. When Gilbert had his accident, Yvonne wasn't even born yet! There's no way she could know about Gilbert!"

Frederick immediately shouted back, "Exactly! On the surface, Yvonne has no connection to Gilbert at all. But if she doesn't know something, why would she dare say this?"

Veronica fell silent.

Though she always prided herself on being shrewd and ruthless, even she was shocked speechless by this news.

Gilbert was someone all the older generation in Starlight City knew about.

Back then, that incident with the Montgomery family caused a huge uproar throughout the city. Gilbert taking the hit for his brother Leonard, going from a high-spirited young talent to a mentally disabled person—this was a wound in the Montgomery family's history that could never heal.

Leonard's debt to this brother was an open secret in Starlight City's upper circles.

If Yvonne really was Gilbert's daughter, even if she only had half the Montgomery family blood, after what they'd done to her, none of them could escape.