Love in Twilight

Chapter 536 Let Me Think About It

The truth was out. Helen wasn’t her mother at all; Iris’s sister was. Or more accurately, the actual Iris

Benson.

More than two decades later, when the emerald ring had appeared again, it had been in Connie’s

hands. At that time, Iris was already a powerful and influential entrepreneur, and it was easy for her to

go after a little starlet. Later, however, she found that she was barking up the wrong tree, so she

doubled down on her revenge against the right woman—her own niece and the actual Iris’d daughter.

She kept Clarissa away from her home for three years and separated Clarissa from her loved ones.

Everything Iris had gone through, she wanted her niece to experience.

Clarissa didn’t even realize that her face was streaked with tears. She sat there silently for a long time.

“You are…” she asked the old man.

“I’m a friend of your grandfather’s. His name is Victor Benson, and I visit him often. He can’t speak

anymore, but he gives me a little note every time I’m there. He’ll write down what happened on that

note, and every time I visit him, I learn a little bit more about their past. I’ve been pretending not to

know how Victor became bedridden, though. When I heard that Iris had started going after you later on,

I found you with the help of these notes, Miss Jade Griffin.”

“Who?” Clarissa was surprised.

“That’s the name your parents decided on before you were born. Charles told the fake Iris this once. He

said, ‘Did you forget that we’ve already come up with a name for our baby? Jade Griffin.’ Though Iris

was smiling when he talked about this, she was definitely burning with rage and jealousy on the inside.

She never would’ve expected such a wonderful man to be in love with her sister, and she hated that

she couldn’t have him. I suppose this only made her desire for revenge grow.”

Clarissa fell silent for a long time.

He told her such a farfetched story, and she had ended up playing a major role in this story. She felt

terrible.

She buried her face in her hands.

After a long while, she asked the old man, “Is she okay?”

“Who?”

“Iris’s sister, my…” She didn’t finish her sentence.

“No, she’s not. In fact, she’s doing terribly. Iris tormented her, and she was half-dead after losing her

daughter. If not for the fact that she’s been dreaming of being reunited with her daughter, she probably

would’ve…” The old man took his glasses off and wiped his tears away.

Clarissa suddenly burst into tears.

This was completely different from how she had felt when Helen had suddenly claimed to be her

mother. She had been unmoved, but this time, her heart twisted with pain.

“Why did you come to me?” she asked.

“Victor said there was no hope for his eldest daughter now that she was so tormented, and his

youngest daughter was so evil that she was even less reliable. He wants you to inherit the Benson

family fortune, which is worth around twenty billion dollars. It’s all in a Swissonian bank account, and he

wants you to be the only person to know what the password is. So, you have to come to Lotharia with

me,” the old man said.

Twenty billion? That was an astronomical sum!

Clarissa couldn’t even begin to imagine how much money that was.

The money was the only thing keeping Victor alive, as this was what Iris wanted from him. Clarissa

couldn’t care less about it, though. Her mind was abuzz, and she couldn’t think straight. Her heart

ached for the actual Iris, and she didn’t even know where her father, Charles, was.

“Hasn’t anyone reported this to the police? The crimes that Iris has committed over the years are

uncountable.” She clenched her fists tightly.

“Iris is very good at counter surveillance, and people wouldn’t be able to find any proof of the things

she’s done even if they were to find out about them. Plus, people don’t really pay attention to foreigners

in their country, and she’s got her servant Mrs. Dane on a tight leash. There’s nothing I can do, either.

Whatever I’ve gotten from Victor isn’t enough to prove anything.”

Clarissa understood this. She knew very well what Iris had done over the past few years. Indeed, Iris

was able to make sure that no one had any dirt on her.

“Do I have to go?” she asked.

“Yes, you have to.”novelbin

“Let me think about it.”