Chapter 9
The police had basically identified the suspect and came to me for more details.
I was shocked to learn that my son hadn’t accidentally drowned but was pushed into the river. At first, I hadn’t suspected foul play.
However, the man they hired couldn’t withstand the pressure from the online uproar and turned himself in.
The mastermind, to my astonishment, was Avery Moore.
With the evidence laid out, she had no room to deny it.
Avery Moore was sentenced to life for hiring someone to kill my son.
I couldn’t understand.
Even if she loved Julian, did she really have to kill
How could she be so cruel?
to kill my
child?
In the visiting room, I calmly observed Avery, who now appeared significantly haggard.
“If you love Julian, just ask him to divorce me. Why did you have to kill my son?” Avery took a deep breath and looked at me, her face full of regret and helplessness.
“Because… Julian refused to divorce.”
To be honest, I was a little surprised to hear this answer.
Avery was Julian’s childhood sweetheart, someone he had long pined for.
Years ago, he reluctantly married me only because her parents disapproved of their relationship.
After her parents passed away, they had a chance to be together again.
“Did he ever tell you why he wouldn’t divorce me?” I asked.
Avery suddenly covered her face and cried. After a while, she wiped her tears and looked at me.
“He said he couldn’t leave you because of your son. He didn’t want his child to grow up without a father. I believed him and thought your son was the barrier to our being together. So, I hired someone from the internet to push him into the river…
“But even after your son’s death, he still wouldn’t divorce you. That’s when I realized how wrong I had been. It wasn’t your son stopping him. It was… it was because he loved you all along.”
Her revelation left me utterly speechless.
I had always assumed Julian wouldn’t divorce me because he didn’t want to tarnish his reputation as a man who abandoned his wife and child for a mistress.
He was, after all, a man deeply concerned with appearances, a modestly successful
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local businessman.
But love?
That was something I never believed he felt for me.
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